Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 361853 |
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Abbey ancient Antwerp architecture Assmannshausen Baden Baths beautiful Belgian Belgium Bradshaw's bridge Bruges Brussels building built canal castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charleroi Château choir Church of St Class Hotel Coblenz Cologne contains Counts of Flanders Courtrai crosses Dinant Duke Dutch Emperor English erected excursion feet high Flanders Flemish Forest formerly France French gardens German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL Hall hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége Louvain magnificent Mannheim manufactures Mayence Meuse miles modern Mons monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur ornamented Ostend paintings Palace passes picture picturesque population Prince principal Proprietor province Prussia Quiévrain rail Railway Station remarkable Rhine right bank river road Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue steamer Strassburg streets style Table d'Hôte tion Tournai tower town traveller Trèves valley Verviers village West Flanders wine
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Page 27 - 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 23 - 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 27 - 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.
Page 186 - Proprietor. FIRST-CLASS HOTEL, replete with every comfort, in the best position, opposite the celebrated FALLS OF THE RHINE, and five minutes
Page 66 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Page 1 - 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 xvi - ... 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.
Page 179 - HOTEL PENSION VICTORIA Finest situation, near the English Garden. Splendid view on the Lake and the Alps. Very moderate prices. No charge for light and attendance. Omnibus at the Station.
Page 171 - LIFT. On the Banks of the Rhine. LIFT. European Reputation. 200 Rooms and Saloons. SITUATION without equal, facing the Rhine, Seven Mountains, the Park, Landing Pier, and RaHO way Station. Extensive English Gardens. Reading, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms. Ladies