Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany: Being a Guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &c., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black SeaJ. Murray, 1871 - 635 pages |
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Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany: Being a Guide to Würtemberg ... John Murray (Firm) Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
Handbook for Travellers in Southern Germany: Being a Guide to Würtemberg ... John Murray (Firm) Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
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Alps Ampezzo ancient ascends Austrian bank baths Bavaria beautiful Bormio Botzen bridge building built burg called carriage carved castle centy chapel château church contains crosses Dachstein Danube descends distance dolomite Duke Eilwagen Eisack Emperor English erected excursion foot French gallery German glacier Gothic height Heiligenblut hill horses Hotel houses Hungary Inhab Inns Innsbruck Junct King lake leads Lienz Linz marble Meran Messrs monument mountains Munich nearly Nuremberg opposite painted Palace pass Passau path Pest picturesque Pinzgau portraits Post post-road Prague precipices Prince railroad Railway Ratisbon reached river road rock Roman round ROUTE ruins Salzburg scenery Schloss seen side situated Sölden stands Stat steamer steep stone stream Styria summit tains thal thence tion tower town Traun traveller Trieste Turks Tyrol valley Vienna Villach village Virgin walk walls wood Würtemberg
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Page 83 - Fairer seems the ancient city, and the sunshine seems more fair, That he once has trod its pavement, that he once has breathed its air!
Page 230 - Above are noble hills, planted with beeches and oaks; mountains bound the view — here covered with pines and larches, there raising their marble crests, capped with eternal snows, above the clouds.
Page 333 - For two or three leagues there was little variation in the scenery ; cliffs, nearly perpendicular on both sides, and the Brenta foaming and thundering below. Beyond, the rocks began to be mantled with vines and gardens. Here and there a cottage shaded with mulberries, made its appearance, and we often discovered, on the banks of the river, ranges of white buildings, with courts and awnings, beneath which numbers of women and children were employed in manufacturing silk.
Page 48 - I to say that all the parts everywhere melt into each other, it might naturally be supposed that the effect would be a high degree of softness; but it is notoriously the contrary ; and I think, for the reason that has been given, his flesh has the appearance of ivory, or plaster, or some other hard substance. What contributes likewise to give this hardness is a want of transparency in his colouring, from his admitting little or no reflections of light.
Page 269 - ... the Holy Trinity, cut all loose !" Huge rocks, and trunks of trees, long prepared and laid in heaps for the purpose, began now to descend rapidly in every direction, while the deadly fire of the Tyrolese, who never throw away a shot, opened from every bush, crag, or corner of rock, which could afford the shooter cover. As this dreadful attack was made on the whole line at once, twothirds of the enemy were instantly destroyed; •while the Tyrolese, rushing from their shelter, with swords, spears,...
Page 47 - Rubens in my possession : he never afterwards had so brilliant a manner of colouring ; it kills every thing near it. Behind are figures on horseback, touched with great spirit. This is Vandyck's first manner, when he imitated Rubens and Titian...
Page 230 - The variety of the scenery, the verdure of the meadows and trees, the depths of the valleys, the altitude of the mountains, the clearness and grandeur of the rivers and lakes, give it, I think, a decided superiority over Switzerland.
Page 48 - Susanna in the other room ; but whether the ground of this picture has been repainted, or the white horse, which was certainly intended to make the mass of light broader, has lost its brightness, at present the Christ makes a disagreeable string of light. In reality here are too many Rembrandts brought together; his peculiarity does not come amiss, when mixed with the performances of other artists of more regular manners ; the variety then may contribute to relieve the mind, fatigued with regularity....
Page 269 - The vanguard was permitted to advance unopposed as far as Prutz, the object of their expedition. The rest of the army were therefore induced to trust themselves still deeper in this tremendous pass, where the precipices, becoming more and more narrow as they advanced, seemed about to close above their heads. No sound but of the screaming of the eagles disturbed from their eyries, and the roar of the river, reached the ears of the soldier, and on the precipices, partly enveloped in a hazy mist, no...
Page 157 - In the lovely district of the Tyrol there is to be found an historic city which the painter Wilkie has described as 'Edinburg Castle and the Old Town, brought within the cliffs of the Trosachs and watered by a river like the Tay.' It is the city of Salzburg, on the Salza, famous as the birth-place of Mozart and as the burial-place of Haydn. Almost simultaneously with the accession of George II there came to the principality, of which Salzburg was the capital, a new ruler, who inaugurated an era of...