| John Murray (Firm) - Switzerland - 1811 - 618 pages
...pror.oimtes it as " worthy only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and ofthe taste of a confectioner." To taste, it may have little pretension ; but, for...climate of the north, this singular creation of art, wilh its aromatic groves, its alecs and cactuses starting out of the rocks — and, above all, its... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Alps, French (France) - 1838 - 446 pages
...pronounces it as " wortby only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and of the ta-ite of a confectioner." To taste, it may have little pretension; but, for...sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant snows of the Alps, cannot fail to afford pleasure, and a visit to the Isola Bella will certainly not... | |
| John Murray - 1838 - 452 pages
...worthy only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and of the ta*te of a confectioner." Totaste,itmay have little pretension; but, for a traveller fresh...reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks, anil the distant snows of the Alps, cannot fail to afford pleasure, and a visit to the Isola Bella... | |
| John Murray - 1842 - 482 pages
...pronounces it as " worthy only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and of the taste of a confectioner." To taste, it may have little pretension ; but, for...and, above all, its glorious situation, bathed by the dark blue waters of the lake, reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant... | |
| 1849 - 586 pages
...have little pretensions, but it is a spot of peculiar enjoyment, and no one will repent of a visit to this singular creation of art, with its aromatic groves,...and above all, its glorious situation, bathed by the dark blue waters of the lake, reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks and the distant... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - Alps, Italian (Italy) - 1852 - 512 pages
...pronounces it as " worthy only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and of the taste of a confectioner." To taste it may have little pretension; but, for a...and, above all, its glorious situation, bathed by the dark blue waters of the lake, reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant... | |
| John Murray - 1858 - 558 pages
...worthy only of a rich man's misplaced extravagance, and of the taste of a confectioner.'' To tnste it may have ¡ little pretension; but, for a traveller...and, above all, its glorious situation, bathed by the dark blue waters of the lake, reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant... | |
| Samuel Manning - Switzerland - 1866 - 228 pages
...will assent to the truth of Murray's criticism ; " To taste it may have little pretension ; but to a traveller fresh from the rigid climate of the north...sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant snows of the Alps, cannot fail to afford pleasure." Even the most cynical and censorious will admit... | |
| Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 pages
...will assent to the truth of Murray's criticism : " To taste it may have little pretension ; but to a traveller fresh from the rigid climate of the north...sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant snows of the Alps, cannot fail to afford pleasure." Even the most cynical and censorious will admit... | |
| Italy - 1866 - 722 pages
...pensée grandiose, une espèce de création ; " Gibbon " an enchanted palace, a work of the fairies, in a lake accompanied with mountains." To taste it may...and, above all, its glorious situation, bathed by the dark blue waters of the lake, reflecting the sparkling white villages on its banks, and the distant... | |
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