St. Petersburgh: A Journal of Travels to and from that Capital; Through Flanders, the Rhenish Provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the Federated States of Germany, and France, Volume 1

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Page 360 - Looking tranquillity. It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 440 - ... precipice, over which the animal and the imperial rider pause, without fear and in an attitude of triumph. The horse rears with his fore-feet in the air, and seems to be impatient of restraint, while the sovereign, turned towards the island, surveys with calm and serene countenance his capital rising out of the waters over which he extends the hand of protection. The bold manner in which the group has been made to rest on the hind legs of...
Page 375 - Polangen and Pillau, either loosely on the shore, on which it has been thrown by the strong north and westerly winds, or in small hillocks of sand near the sea, where it is found in regular strata. The quantity found yearly in this manner, and on this small extent of coast, besides what little is sometimes discovered in beds of...
Page 118 - Mix the whole together, and let the mixture stand for the space of a fortnight ; after which, introduce it into a glass retort, the body of which is immersed...
Page 447 - Gardes ft cheval, the great and handsome portico of the Opera, with the picturesque church of St. Nicholas not far distant from it, successively presented themselves as objects for our admiration. The scene, too, in this direction, is pleasingly varied by the many intersecting canals which meet to mingle their waters with those of the gulf placed at the extreme point of our picture, and forming its distant horizon.
Page 441 - ... raised, pawing the air over the brink of a precipice. This dangerous experiment was carried into effect by the General for some days, in the presence of several spectators, and of Falconet, who sketched the various movements and parts of the group from clay to day, and was thus enabled to produce perhaps the finest, certainly the most correct, statue of the kind in Europe.
Page 441 - Empress, together • with the impossibility of representing to nature so striking a position of man and animal, without having before his eyes a horse and rider in the attitude he had devised. General Melissino, an officer having the reputation of being the most expert as well as the boldest rider of the day, to whom the difficulties of the architect were made known, offered to ride daily one of Count Alexis...
Page 511 - ... kept in the utmost state of cleanliness ; and under the lofty double windows is placed a cistern with two spouts which give out hot and cold water in abundance, and a brass tube rising between them to a height of 10 feet, bent horizontally at its upper extremity, and terminating in a round hollow and flat rose pierced with many holes, through which, by the turning of a small cock, water, either hot or cold, may be showered instantaneously and with considerable force. This is, in fact, the identical...
Page 445 - ... coachman, whose waist is compressed by a silken sash, with a square cap of crimson velvet placed diagonally on his head, and who was heard urging the distant leaders under the control of a little urchin ; we were recalled in our imagination to present times and to reality, and we surveyed with admiration this youngest of the European capitals, and the capital of the largest empire in Europe.
Page 125 - I confidently hope,' his Majesty observes, ' that the university of Bonn will act in the spirit which dictated its foundation, in promoting true piety, sound sense, and good morals. By this my faithful subjects may know and learn with what patriotic affection I view the equal, impartial, and solid instruction of them all; and how much I consider education as the means of preventing those turbulent and fruitless efforts so injurious to the welfare of nations.

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