Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
When, after a year as crammed as many a lifetime, he went down at the Countess's persuasion to take the milk-cure at Kaltbad on the Righi, he confessed to his friend Becker that he saw no near hope save from a European war.
I rose when the sun ought to have risen, on the following morning, intending to admire the famous harbor which Americans love to compare with the Neapolitan Bay. But long before we reached the Narrows, "A blinding mist came up and hid the land As far as eye could see." Very soon we were buried in fog, dense and Cimmerian, as ever brooded over our own Thames or the Righi panorama.
"Most delightful people, whom Mrs. Duncombe met on the Righi. He is a Cambridge professor." "Taillebois I don't remember the name," said Cecil, "and we know a great many Cambridge men. We went to a Commencement there." "Oh, not Cambridge on the Cam! the American Cambridge," said Mrs. Duncombe. "He is a quiet, inoffensive man, great on political economy; but his wife is the character.
In an instant they were lovers again, and her American friend and confidante, Mrs. Arson, was enchanted by this handsome apparition, which, Helene protested, she had only summoned up half laughingly. Dear old Holthoff had written her that Lassalle was somewhere on the Righi, but she had not really believed she would stumble on him.
They met on the Righi; and nothing is more comical than to near him describe the ladies' fraternization over female doctors and lawyers, till they rushed into each other's arms, and the Clio promised to come down on a crusade and convert you all." "There are two ways of telling a story," said Cecil. "No wonder the gentlemen quake!" said Mrs. Poynsett. "I don't," said Frank, boyishly.
As yet the house is little known to English travellers: it is mostly frequented by Italians from Milan, Novara, and other cities of the plain, who call it the Italian Righi, and come to it, as cockneys go to Richmond, for noisy picnic excursions, or at most for a few weeks' villeggiatura in the summer heats.
It bears a poetical inscription in old German, and a rude painting of the Battle of Morgarten. As we wound around the lake of Lowertz, we saw the valley lying between the Rossberg and the Righi, which latter mountain stood full in view. To our regret, and that of all other travelers, the clouds hung low upon it, as they had done for a week at least, and there was no prospect of a change.
In the year 1864, the well-known geographer, Heinrich Keller, from Zurich, on ascending to the summit of the Righi Mountain, in the heart of Switzerland, discovered one of the finest panoramic displays of mountain scenery that he had ever witnessed. To his enthusiastic descriptions some lovers of nature in Zurich and Berne listened with much interest, and in the year 1865, Dr. Abel, Mr.
Thus the ugliness of the Germans who surround me shuts off the view of the Righi!!! Zounds! What mugs! God be thanked, "of my horrible sight I purge their States." CCLXXXII. TO GEORGE SAND Saturday, 26 September, 1874 Then, after having been bored like an ass on the top of the Righi, I returned home the first of August and started my book.
About the same time I induced Minna to go with me for our first ascent of the Righi, a feat we both accomplished very energetically on foot. I was very much grieved on this occasion to discover that my wife had symptoms of heart disease, which continued to develop subsequently.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking