Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 321853 |
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... appearance of one continuous village . The S. and E. provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of marshy lands and ...
... appearance of one continuous village . The S. and E. provinces have an opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated , and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of marshy lands and ...
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... manners . On the borders of Holland the people are generally similar to the Dutch , and adopt their customs , amusements , and dress . But in the southern districts they differ little from the French , in appearance xxiv . INTRODUCTION .
... manners . On the borders of Holland the people are generally similar to the Dutch , and adopt their customs , amusements , and dress . But in the southern districts they differ little from the French , in appearance xxiv . INTRODUCTION .
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George Bradshaw. districts they differ little from the French , in appearance , habits , manners , costume , or language . In some parts there is an admixture of Spanish blood , dating from the 16th century . The Belgians have always ...
George Bradshaw. districts they differ little from the French , in appearance , habits , manners , costume , or language . In some parts there is an admixture of Spanish blood , dating from the 16th century . The Belgians have always ...
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... appearance , but noted for its manu- factures of table linen . Mouscron ( Station ) , in Belgium , 11 miles from Lille . The town is seen on an eminence to the right , with its beautiful church built of bricks . Its chief importance ...
... appearance , but noted for its manu- factures of table linen . Mouscron ( Station ) , in Belgium , 11 miles from Lille . The town is seen on an eminence to the right , with its beautiful church built of bricks . Its chief importance ...
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... appearance of a modern city than Bruges . Most of the houses , as in Holland , are furnished with espions , or little reflectors , placed outside the windows , and show- ing all the passers in the street . Its objects of attraction may ...
... appearance of a modern city than Bruges . Most of the houses , as in Holland , are furnished with espions , or little reflectors , placed outside the windows , and show- ing all the passers in the street . Its objects of attraction may ...
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Abbey altar ancient Antwerp architecture Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bingen Bradshaw's bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charlemagne Charleroi Château choir Church of St CLASS HOTEL Coblenz Cologne contains Counts of Flanders crosses Dinant Duke Düsseldorf Dutch Emperor English erected established excursion feet high Flanders Flemish formerly France French gardens German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL handsome hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége Louvain magnificent marble Mayence Meuse miles modern Mons monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite ornamented Ostend paintings Palace passes picturesque population Prince principal Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Sambre Scheldt seen side situated Soignies splendid statue Steamers style Table d'Hôte tion tower traveller Trèves valley village West Flanders wine
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Page 84 - And there they stand, as stands a lofty mind, Worn, but unstooping to the baser crowd, All tenantless, save to the crannying Wind, Or holding dark communion with the Cloud. There was a day when they were young and proud ; Banners on high, and battles passed below ; But they who fought are in a bloody shroud, And those which waved are shredless dust ere now, And the bleak battlements shall bear no future blow.
Page 158 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 33 - Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 36 - There have been tears and breaking hearts for thee, And mine were nothing, had I such to give; But when I stood beneath the fresh green tree, Which living waves where thou didst cease to live, And saw around me the wide field revive With fruits and fertile promise, and the Spring Come forth her work of gladness to contrive, With all her reckless birds upon the wing, I turn'd from all she brought to those she could not bring.
Page 36 - Was it a soothing or a mournful thought, Amid this scene of slaughter as we stood, Where armies had with recent fury fought, To mark how gentle Nature still pursued Her quiet course, as if she took no care For what her noblest work had suffer'd there.
Page 79 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 160 - PORTMANTEAUS And STRONG DRESS BASKETS, 37, WEST STRAND, LONDON. New Illustrated Catalogue of Registered and Patented Articles, Post Free.
Page 179 - Proprietor.— This large and well-known Establishment, close to the Kursaal, and opposite the principal Bath Houses, has an excellent reputation for its general comfort, cleanliness, superior accommodation, and very moderate charges. The Proprietor lived several years in England. Table d'Hote at 1 and 6 o'clock.