Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 1Bradshaw's Guide Office, 1853 - 159 pages |
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... opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of marshy lands and extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the ...
... opposite character , being generally more thinly populated , less cultivated and exhibiting a most irregular mountainous surface , with tracts of marshy lands and extensive forests . With the exception of three hilly districts in the ...
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... opposite the railway station and English steam - packet wharf - recommended . Hotel Quillacq : a first - rate and comfortable house . Hôtel Meurice . The proper and most advantageous course for parties to adopt on arrival here ...
... opposite the railway station and English steam - packet wharf - recommended . Hotel Quillacq : a first - rate and comfortable house . Hôtel Meurice . The proper and most advantageous course for parties to adopt on arrival here ...
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... opposite bank , between the road and the river , is Peteghem , a small commune containing 1,400 souls . Deynze is the chief place of a canton in the district of Ghent , and an ancient town ; its population is 3,800 . The principal ...
... opposite bank , between the road and the river , is Peteghem , a small commune containing 1,400 souls . Deynze is the chief place of a canton in the district of Ghent , and an ancient town ; its population is 3,800 . The principal ...
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... opposite side is a figure of the Virgin , and two small angels are stationed at the bottom of the mausoleum . The visitor should not leave St. Bavin without descending into the crypt , a low subterranean arch under the choir . It is ...
... opposite side is a figure of the Virgin , and two small angels are stationed at the bottom of the mausoleum . The visitor should not leave St. Bavin without descending into the crypt , a low subterranean arch under the choir . It is ...
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... opposite side of the canal and near the Botanical Gardens , opposite the Rue Neuve at the Porte de Cologne , enters BRUSSELS ( Route 7 , page 31 ) . ROUTE 2 . Lille to Brussels- ( via Mouscron , Tour- nay , Ath , and Jurbise ) ...
... opposite side of the canal and near the Botanical Gardens , opposite the Rue Neuve at the Porte de Cologne , enters BRUSSELS ( Route 7 , page 31 ) . ROUTE 2 . Lille to Brussels- ( via Mouscron , Tour- nay , Ath , and Jurbise ) ...
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Abbey adorned altar ancient Antwerp architecture arrive Baden beautiful Belgian Belgium Brabant bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charleroi château choir Church of St Coblenz Cologne contains Counts of Flanders Courtray crosses Dinant Duke Duke of Brabant edifice Emperor erected establishment feet Flanders formerly France French gardens German Ghent Gothic Grand hill Hotel Hôtel de Ville inhabitants interesting leaving left bank Liége London Louvain magnificent Malines manufacture marble Mayence ment Meuse Mons monument mountains Namur ornamented Ostend paintings palace passes passport picture picturesque Pied-noir population present Prince principal promenade remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Route 12 Rubens ruins Sambre scenery Scheldt seen side situated splendid spot Steamers streets style surmounted Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tomb Tournay tower town traveller trees Treves valley village West Flanders worth
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Page xviii - Rubens stands in the esteem of the world is alone a sufficient reason for some examination of his pretensions. His fame is extended over a great part of the Continent, without a rival: and it may be justly said that he has enriched his...
Page 40 - 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 34 - 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 16 - Yet everywhere its monuments remain : Temples which rear their stately heads on high, Canals that intersect the fertile plain — "Wide streets and squares, with many a court and hall, Spacious and undefaced — but ancient all.
Page xviii - ... left, but by what some would think a more solid advantage — the wealth arising from the concourse of strangers whom his works continually invite to Antwerp. "To extend his glory still...