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Aakirkeby ancient Baltic beautiful blue boat Bornholm calm castle Cathedral Cattegat charm cherries Christiania church Copenhagen Cow Island crowd dark dead delight deserted door flashing flowers forest gardens gaze Gotha canal Gothenburg Gotland green Gripsholm groves Gustavus Vasa HALMSTAD Hans Christian Andersen harbour heart hills houses influence interesting Jacob's ladder Jehu journey Kongsberg lake land landing-stage light looked Malmö Mariefred Marstrand morning mysterious narrow never night Norway once one's ourselves paradise passed picturesque pleasant pleasure present quaint quays quiet repose rocks romantic Rönne round ruins rushing scene seemed seen shadows shores side silent skies slopes solitude sound steam steamer Stockholm stones streets stretched sunshine surrounded Svanike Sweden Swedish table d'hôte to-day towers town trees turned Upsala vessel walk walls Waxholm whilst wild wind Wisby wonderful wooded
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Page 223 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page xii - Oh ! the vigour with which the air is rife ! The spirit of joyous motion ; The fever, the fulness of animal life, Can be drained from no earthly potion ! The lungs with the living gas grow light, And the limbs feel the strength of ten, While the chest expands with its maddening might, GOD'S GLORIOUS OXYGEN...
Page 292 - Presently a change came over the face of Nature. We breathed Norway air, and were happy. Mountains uprose, hills and valleys laughed and sang, rivers and torrents frothed and foamed. We had left the tame and commonplace, and passed into the majestic and stupendous. It was exhilarating as a draught of wine.
Page 172 - This made no difference to the crowd on board, who seemed to revel in it. Smoking was universal, so were laughing and talking ;
Page 265 - They have heard of such a place, they may tell you ; perhaps will indicate its position on the map ; believe that the title of the King of Sweden's second son is Duke of Gotland; and there it ends. Yet if Gotland were only a little more accessible : if its shores were washed by the waters of the English Channel instead of those of the Baltic : it would be thought one of the wonders of the world. We left Stockholm about five o'clock in the evening. For the first and only time in our experience the...
Page 10 - TUotous drinkers crowd the cafis and the roads, and night is made hideous with their howling, [n this respect the Swedes leave much to be desired. " The Swedes are not a very serious, or apparently a very religious nation," says a well-known writer. " They claim the reputation of being more civilised and refined, considerably in advance of the Norwegians; but if they gain in one way, they certainly lose in another. Both men and women often become abnormally stout, and their manner of living rather...