Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 171853 |
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... fine arts , and its present rapid progress in every industrial pursuit and social improvement , invest it with a peculiar interest for the historian , the traveller , and the student . Its territory , as defined by treaty of 15th ...
... fine arts , and its present rapid progress in every industrial pursuit and social improvement , invest it with a peculiar interest for the historian , the traveller , and the student . Its territory , as defined by treaty of 15th ...
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... fine structure , built in the early Gothic style . English service at Trinity Church and in St. Pierre . The ramparts around the town and pier form admirable promenades . The Basse - Ville , or lower town , is a pleasant walk on a fête ...
... fine structure , built in the early Gothic style . English service at Trinity Church and in St. Pierre . The ramparts around the town and pier form admirable promenades . The Basse - Ville , or lower town , is a pleasant walk on a fête ...
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... fine panoramic view of the town may be had . Thomas à Becket sought refuge in this once - famous abbey , when a fugitive from England , and within its cloister were passed the last four years of his life . The monastery was suppressed ...
... fine panoramic view of the town may be had . Thomas à Becket sought refuge in this once - famous abbey , when a fugitive from England , and within its cloister were passed the last four years of his life . The monastery was suppressed ...
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George Bradshaw. large corn stores seen , as also the very fine houses of the Rue Esquirmoise . The suburbs of Lille for miles around , as well as the entire Department du Nord , will strike the traveller as strongly resembling the ...
George Bradshaw. large corn stores seen , as also the very fine houses of the Rue Esquirmoise . The suburbs of Lille for miles around , as well as the entire Department du Nord , will strike the traveller as strongly resembling the ...
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... fine piece of carving , by the famous Lefevre , of Tournay ; two bas - reliefs by Godecharles ; and Christ at the Tomb , deserve to be noticed . This church once possessed the small ivory statue of the Virgin , known as the Virgin of ...
... fine piece of carving , by the famous Lefevre , of Tournay ; two bas - reliefs by Godecharles ; and Christ at the Tomb , deserve to be noticed . This church once possessed the small ivory statue of the Virgin , known as the Virgin of ...
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Abbey accommodation altar ancient Antwerp apartments Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bingen bridge Bruges Brussels building built canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated century chapel Charleroi château Church of St Coblenz Cologne comfort contains Counts of Flanders crosses distance Duke East Flanders Emperor English travellers erected establishment excellent families feet first-class Hotel Flanders formerly France French garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége Louvain Luxembourg magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Namur o'clock Omnibuses opposite ornamented Ostend OTEL paintings palace Paris passes picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia Quiévrain rail Railway Station remarkable Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Rubens ruins Saloons Sambre scenery Scheldt seen side situated splendid Steamers Strasburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion Tournay tower town Trèves valley village visitors wine
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Page 34 - 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 89 - Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with...
Page 176 - Dependance consist of One Hundred and Sixty Sleeping Apartments, elegant Sitting-rooms, and a Garden for the use of visitors. Extensive and airy Dining-room, and a comfortable Public Sitting-room, with Piano and Library. It is conducted under the Immediate superintendence of the Proprietor...
Page 37 - 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.