 | Eugène Labaume - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1815 - 470 pages
...soldiers rushed up the hill in crowds, discovering new wonders at every step. One admired a noble' chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...in the midst of a fertile plain. The Moskwa is seen meandering through the richest meadows, and after having fertilized the neighbouring country, takes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1815 - 558 pages
...but all were equally struck with the grandeur with which this immense city presented itself to them. It is situated in the midst of a fertile plain : the Moskwa winds through it, breaking, into picturesque groups, a vast cluster of houses of all sizes, and of... | |
 | Eugène Labaume - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1817 - 376 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...in the midst of a fertile plain. The Moskwa is seen meandering through the richest meadows ; and, after having fertilized the neighbouring country, takes... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Curiosities and wonders - 1822 - 368 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...in the midst of a fertile plain. The Moskwa is seen meandering through the richest meadows ; and, after having fertilized the neighbouring country, takes... | |
 | History - 1834 - 560 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant . architecture of which displayed...in the midst of a fertile plain. The Moskwa is seen meandering through the richest meadows ; and, after having fertilized the neighboring country, takes... | |
 | History - 1834 - 562 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...afforded. It is situated in the midst of a fertile piain. The Moskwa is seen meandering through the richest meadows ; and, after having fertilized the... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 466 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...superb picture which this immense town afforded." — LABAUME, p. 179.] the French cavalry.1 The message which he sent to Buonaparte intimated, that... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 468 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...struck with the superb picture which this immense town afforded."—LABAUME, p, 179.] the French cavalry. 1 The message which he sent to Buonaparte intimated,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 482 pages
...ran. up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant* One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant Architecture of which displayed...struck with the superb picture which this immense town afforded."—LABAUME, p. 179.J the Frencli cavalry. 1 The message which he sent to Buonaparte intimated,... | |
 | History - 1835 - 580 pages
...ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed...all were struck with the superb picture which this imjnense town afforded. It is situated in the midst of a fertile plain. The Moskwa is seen meandering... | |
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At the sound of this wished-for name, the soldiers ran up the hill in crowds, and each discovered new wonders every instant. One admired a noble chateau on our left, the elegant architecture of which displayed more than eastern magnificence; another directed... 
