Through the Dolomites from Venice to ToblachG. Allen, 1896 - 232 pagine |
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Agordo Albergo Alleghe Ampezzo Antelao ascent Asolo Auronzo Austrian bank beautiful Belluno Boite Valley Borca bridge built Cadorini Calalzo called Caprile Carnia carriage carved castle centre century Cesare Vecellio chapel Chiapuzza church cliffs climb cloth colour Cordevole Cortina cross Crown 8vo d'Oro Davide Riva Dolomites door erected excursion feet Feltre forest Forno di Zoldo frescoes Galeazzi Gogna gorge Gothic green hill horses houses hundred inhabitants Italian Italy journey kind permission lake landslip Longarone looked Marco Marmarole miles Monte Mount mountain palace passed peaks Pelmo Perarolo permission of Signor Piave river Piave Valley Piazza Pieve di Cadore pine pine-wood precipices Republic river road rock Roman round saw-mills Schluderbach seen side Signor Davide Riva slopes Sorapiss Stefano stone summit Titian Toblach torrent tower town trees Treviso Valle VALLE DI CADORE Vallesella Venetian Venice VILLA BARBARO village walk walls wood Zucco
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Pagina 18 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Pagina 19 - How many a year, my Asolo, Since — one step just from sea to land — I found you, loved yet feared you so — For natural objects seemed to stand Palpably fire-clothed!
Pagina 19 - The objection that such a word nowhere occurs in the works of the Cardinal is hardly important — Bembo was too thorough a purist to conserve in print a term which in talk he might possibly toy with: but the word is more likely derived from a Spanish source. I use it for love of the place, and in requital of your pleasant assurance that an early poem of mine first attracted you thither — where and elsewhere, at La Mura as C& Alvisi, may all happiness attend you!
Pagina viii - seem to have been built for the human race, as at once their schools and cathedrals; full of treasures of illuminated manuscript for the scholar, kindly in simple lessons for the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper.
Pagina 101 - Miiller, and at our request accompanied us to the scene of the occurrence, a field on the slope of a hill, about a mile and a half...
Pagina 179 - It is heavy work, and it takes from an hour to an hour and a half to husk the rice for one meal.