Category: Adventure
The Ortl’er is the Mont Blanc of the Tyrol, and seen from Nauders, a village on a green, grassy table land, more than four thousand feet above the sea, can well bear comparison with the boldest of the Swiss Alps. Nauders itself, a type of a Tyroler village, is situated in a wi...
Every traveller in the Tyrol must have remarked, that, wherever the way is difficult of access, or dangerous to traverse, some little shrine or statue is always to be seen, remi...
11. CHAPTER XI. _Villa Scalviati, near FlorenceI have had a night of ghostly dreams and horrors; the imagination of Monk Lewis, or, worse, of Hoffman himself, never conceived any thing so diabolical. H., who visited me last...
8. CHAPTER VIII. _Lerici, Gulf of SpezziaAnother night of fever! The sea, beating heavily upon the rocks, prevented sleep; or worse--filled it with images of shipwreck and storm. I sat till nigh midnight on the terrace...
4. CHAPTER IV. _Villa Cimarosa, Logo di Como_.It is a week since I wrote a line in my notebook, and, judging only from my sensations, it seems like a year. Events rapidly succeeding, always make time seem longer in retrospe...
10. CHAPTER X. SOME REVERIES ABOUT PLACES.What would the old school of Diplomatists have said if they saw their secret wiles and machinations exposed to publicity, as is now the fashion? When any “honourable and learned...
9. CHAPTER IX. _FlorenceWhat did Shelley, what does any one, mean by their raptures about Florence? Never, surely, was the epithet of _La Bella_ more misapplied. I can well understand the enthusiasm wi...
5. CHAPTER V. _La Villa Cimarosa, OctoberHow like a dream--a delicious, balmy, summer night’s dream--is this life I am leading! For the first time have I tasted the soothing tranquillity of domestic life. A uniformity,...
7. CHAPTER VII. _La SpezziaAnother month, or nearly so, has elapsed since last I opened this book; and now, as I look back, I feel like a convict who has slept soundly during the night before his doom, an...
1. CHAPTER I.The Ortl’er is the Mont Blanc of the Tyrol, and seen from Nauders, a village on a green, grassy table land, more than four thousand feet above the sea, can well bear comparison...
3. CHAPTER III.Italy at last! I have crossed the Alps and reached my goal, and now I turn and look at that winding road which, for above two thousand feet, traverses the steep mountain-side, a...
6. CHAPTER VI. _Villa Cimarosa, Lake of ComoGilbert reminds me that I had arranged my departure hence for to-morrow: this was some weeks back, and now I have no intention of leaving. I cling to this “Happy Valley,” as one...