St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital, Volume 2

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H. Colburn, 1828
 

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Pagina 530 - lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come,—Pray, my dear Sir, I asked the Professor, still holding the skull in my hand, and pointing to the part, does not her cerebellum gainsay the phrenologists ? else the scandalous chronicle of her life belies her fair fame, for here are no organs of
Pagina 509 - that she might spend her days in prayer and purity in its caverns, is commemorated in the name of the rock ; and the Jungfernsprung, or Leap of the Virgin, perpetuates the memory of the Saxon maid, who, when pursued by a brutal lustling, threw herself from the brink of its hideous precipice, to die unpolluted.
Pagina 114 - of the four Evangelists, and adorn the Church of the Mother of God of Kazan, in St. Petersburgh. All the necessary expenses of casting these holy images, we take on our account. Your Eminence will have the goodness to order that able artificers may be employed to fulfil the pious
Pagina 505 - or Bastion, is the name given to one of the largest masses which rise close by the river on the right bank. One narrow block, on the very summit, projects into the air. Perched on this, not on, but beyond the brink of the precipice, you command a prospect which, in its kind, is unique in Europe. You hover, on the
Pagina 505 - When, again, from some elevated point, you overlook the whole mass, and see these stiff bare rocks rising from the earth, manifesting, though now disjoined, that they once formed one body, you might think yourself gazing on the skeleton of a perished world, all the softer parts of which have mouldered away, and left only the naked, indestructible frame work.
Pagina 506 - at an elevation of more than 800 feet above the Elbe, which sweeps round the bottom of the precipice. Behind, and up along the river, on the same bank, rise similar precipitous cliff's, cut and intersected
Pagina 520 - into which I had been but the moment before introduced. He advanced towards me with the countenance of one who seems not to go through the ceremony of a first greeting a contre caur ; and I felt thankful to him for that first impression
Pagina 522 - of his lordship's own well-gifted mind, may be deserving of his countrymen's applause ; but it is as the author of Faustus travesti, and not as the translator of Goethe's Faustus, that the popular applause has been obtained." The patriarch poet seemed far more satisfied with the translation of another of his beautiful dramas, the Tasso, by Mr. Devaux.* He said,
Pagina 506 - feet above the level of the Elbe. They rise perpendicularly from a sloping base, formed of debris, and now covered with natural wood. The access to the summit is so difficult, that an Elector of Saxony and King of Poland thought the exploit which he performed in scrambling to the top of the Lilienstein deserving of being commemorated by an inscription. The access to the
Pagina 243 - of church music in Europe, (and I believe I have heard the best of them,) really sink into insignificance, compared to these minstrels. A pater noster was sung by them on this occasion, which struck me as by far the most affecting composition I

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