The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with Visits to Heligoland and the Land of the Midnight SunHarper & Bros., 1905 - 531 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aalborg Alkmaar Amsterdam army Bassett and Mary Bassett asked Berlin boat bridge building called canals carriage castle century church Copenhagen Danish Delft Denmark dikes Doctor Bronson Dutch electors Emperor England English Europe famous feet fish Frank and Fred Frankfort Frederick Frederikshavn friends garden German Haarlem Hamburg Hanseatic League Heligoland Holland horses House of Orange hundred inhabitants interest King lake land Leyden lived look Lubeck Luther Mary asked miles monument mother museum nearly Netherlands North North Holland Norway Norwegian paintings palace party passed polders Prince Prussia railway remarked replied Frank Rhine river Rotterdam royal seen ships side sight Skagen soldiers statue steamer story Stralsund streets things thousand tion told tower town train travellers Vierlande village visitors Wiesbaden William the Silent women wonder youth Zaandam Zuider Zee
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Página 165 - The castled crag of 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 blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these, Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew'da scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with me.
Página 497 - The northern sun creeping at midnight at the distance of five diameters along the horizon, and the immeasurable ocean in apparent contact with the skies, form the grand outlines in the sublime picture presented to the astonished spectator.
Página 163 - The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, Nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Página 62 - Tuesday, the 10th of July, 1584, at about half-past twelve, the Prince, with his wife on his arm, and followed by the ladies and gentlemen of his family, was going to the diningroom. William the Silent was dressed upon that day, according to his usual custom, in very plain fashion. He wore a wide-leaved, loosely-shaped hat of dark felt, with a silken cord round the crown — such as had been worn by the Beggars in the early days of the revolt.
Página 63 - The stairs themselves were completely lighted by a large window, halfway up the flight. The prince came from the dining-room, and began leisurely to ascend. He had only reached the second stair, when a man emerged from the sunken arch, and, standing within a foot or two of him, discharged a pistol full at his heart. Three balls entered his body, one of which, passing quite through him, struck with violence against the wall beyond. The prince exclaimed in French, as he felt the wound, "O my God, have...
Página 498 - The sea was rough and stormy, The tempest howled and wailed, And the sea-fog, like a ghost, Haunted that dreary coast, But onward still I sailed. Four days I steered to eastward, Four days without a night : Round in a fiery ring Went the great sun, O King, With red and lurid light.
Página 243 - He was not only the greatest, but the most German man of our history. In his character all the faults and all the virtues of the Germans are combined on the largest scale. Then he had qualities which are very seldom found united, which we are accustomed to regard as irreconcilable antagonisms. He was, at the same time, a dreamy mystic and a practical man of action. His thoughts had not only wings, but hands. He spoke and he acted. He was not only the tongue, but the sword of his time.
Página 97 - THREE fishers went sailing out into the west, — Out into the west as the sun went down ; Each thought of the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town; For men must work, and women must weep ; And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.
Página 420 - Man's earliest arms were fingers, teeth, and nails, And stones and fragments from the branching woods: Then copper next ; and last, as latest traced, The tyrant, iron.
Página 334 - It was customary with Frederick the Great, whenever a new soldier appeared in his guards, to ask him three questions ; viz. : " How old are you ? How long have you been in my service ? Are you satisfied with your pay and treatment...