Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 171853 |
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... picturesque combinations of landscapes and rock scenery . The river is closely shut in by lofty cliffs of various hues . Here they overhang the river , and are beautifully shrouded with bushes of box , wild myrtle , and ivy , and there ...
... picturesque combinations of landscapes and rock scenery . The river is closely shut in by lofty cliffs of various hues . Here they overhang the river , and are beautifully shrouded with bushes of box , wild myrtle , and ivy , and there ...
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... picturesque B vis de Cette Colonne et fut enfin rendu a l'amour des Francais ; pour en perpétuer le souvenir la ville de Calais a élevé ce monument . " His Majesty Louis XVIII . disembarked beside this column on the 24th April , 1814 ...
... picturesque B vis de Cette Colonne et fut enfin rendu a l'amour des Francais ; pour en perpétuer le souvenir la ville de Calais a élevé ce monument . " His Majesty Louis XVIII . disembarked beside this column on the 24th April , 1814 ...
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... picturesque belfry in the market place , sur- mounting the Hôtel de Ville , a Gothic building of the 15th century , in which is the library , con- taining 30,000 vols . A rather curious spectacle greets the traveller's eye here in the ...
... picturesque belfry in the market place , sur- mounting the Hôtel de Ville , a Gothic building of the 15th century , in which is the library , con- taining 30,000 vols . A rather curious spectacle greets the traveller's eye here in the ...
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... picturesque edifice , built in 1513 . The Halle aux Draps will also repay notice . Maison de Detention , a house of correction , situated on the north side of the city , on the Coupurea canal , which is bordered by a double row of large ...
... picturesque edifice , built in 1513 . The Halle aux Draps will also repay notice . Maison de Detention , a house of correction , situated on the north side of the city , on the Coupurea canal , which is bordered by a double row of large ...
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... picturesque and pleasing objects among the many splendid and exquisite specimens of architecture with which their dwellings are adorned and em- bellished . " Fair city , worthy of her ancient fame ! The season of her splendour is gone ...
... picturesque and pleasing objects among the many splendid and exquisite specimens of architecture with which their dwellings are adorned and em- bellished . " Fair city , worthy of her ancient fame ! The season of her splendour is gone ...
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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.