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 Bohemian Bormio Botzen bridge building built called carriage carved castle centy chapel church contains crosses Dachstein Danube descends distance dolomite Duke Eilwagen Eisack Emperor English erected excursion foot gallery German glacier Gothic height Heiligenblut hill Hotel houses Hungary Inhab Inns Innsbruck Ischl Joch Junct King Laibach lake leads Lienz Linz marble Maximilian 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 rises river road rock Roman 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 99 - 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 146 - Proud names, who once the reins of empire held; In arms who triumph'd, or in arts excell'd; Chiefs, graced with scars, and prodigal of blood, Stern patriots who for sacred freedom stood; Just men, by whom impartial laws were given, And saints who taught, and led the way to Heaven.
Page 256 - 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 179 - 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...
Page 359 - 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 295 - No," was returned in an authoritative tone of voice, by one who, like the first speaker, seemed the inhabitant of some upper region. The Bavarian detachment halted, and sent to the general for orders ; when presently was heard the terrible signal, " In the name of the Holy Trinity, cut all loose...
Page 64 - 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 64 - Of their want of effect it is worth a painter's while to inquire into the cause. One of the principal causes appears to me, his having entertained an opinion that the light of a picture ought to be thrown solely on the figures, and little or none on the ground or sky. This gives great coldness to the effect, and is so contrary to nature and the practice of those painters with whose works he was surrounded, that we cannot help wondering how he fell into this mistake. His naked figures appear to be...
Page 63 - 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 256 - 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.