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Article A SKETCH FROM COLOGNE, WITH A PEEP INTO HOLLAND. ← Page 14 of 14
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A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
stance , the -window at the end , Avith the vine hanging over it , and the loaded apple-tree , stretching its boughs across the roof ; sketch the girl leaning out , AA'ith the brass-clamped bucket , fresh cleaned , which she is turning down to dry upon the sill , AA'here the cat sits watching the unconscious blind bullfinch ,
the bird singing , perhaps , as many of us do , unmindful of treachery close by ! What an orchard , with purple plums , and yellow pears , and scarlet cherries , gleaming like jeAvelled fruit in fairy-land ; and another peep through a long vista of a stately chateau , and its pleasaunce .
Oh , to have paused at Utrecht , Avhere , in olden time , the warrior-bishops used to lay aside the crosier for the SAVord , and hold councils of war against the princely prelates of Liege ! but summer days , like life ' s first bloom , go by too fast for eager aspirations ; and—lo ! a sudden halt in our thoughts , for here Ave are at the station : a picturesque rendezvoushoweverivith
, , ornamented walks , statues and summer-houses , and a group of handsome children , in large hats and rose-coloured ribbons ; their merry blooming nursemaids , in the snowy caps of their order , long earrings , smart brooches , chains , and showy kirtles .
There descended from the tram a motley group of priests , young soldiers , some peasant girls of Fries , in their peculiar coiffures , and a tradesman Avith his freight of herring-tubs , which he piled up forthwith into a compact pyramid ; Avith him were some commercial travellers , thoroughly Dutch in appearance , and with tremendous long pipes in their mouths .
The children , the nurses , the priests , the soldiers , the girls , and the smokers , made as odd a group , under the limes and acacias of the pleasure-ground , as can well be imagined ; but while we were contemplating it , with equal interest and surprise , the blast of the horn again sent us whirling off : and what we saw at Amsterdamand Zaandamwhich is as primitive now as it
, , was when Peter the Great took up his temporary abode thereand at Haarlem , Avhere traces yet remain of the Spaniards ' fiery footsteps—and at Leyden , with its academic groves—and at the Hague , and many a pleasant place besides , I must tell you , my reader , when you and I , ' an you will / shall meet again .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Sketch From Cologne, With A Peep Into Holland.
stance , the -window at the end , Avith the vine hanging over it , and the loaded apple-tree , stretching its boughs across the roof ; sketch the girl leaning out , AA'ith the brass-clamped bucket , fresh cleaned , which she is turning down to dry upon the sill , AA'here the cat sits watching the unconscious blind bullfinch ,
the bird singing , perhaps , as many of us do , unmindful of treachery close by ! What an orchard , with purple plums , and yellow pears , and scarlet cherries , gleaming like jeAvelled fruit in fairy-land ; and another peep through a long vista of a stately chateau , and its pleasaunce .
Oh , to have paused at Utrecht , Avhere , in olden time , the warrior-bishops used to lay aside the crosier for the SAVord , and hold councils of war against the princely prelates of Liege ! but summer days , like life ' s first bloom , go by too fast for eager aspirations ; and—lo ! a sudden halt in our thoughts , for here Ave are at the station : a picturesque rendezvoushoweverivith
, , ornamented walks , statues and summer-houses , and a group of handsome children , in large hats and rose-coloured ribbons ; their merry blooming nursemaids , in the snowy caps of their order , long earrings , smart brooches , chains , and showy kirtles .
There descended from the tram a motley group of priests , young soldiers , some peasant girls of Fries , in their peculiar coiffures , and a tradesman Avith his freight of herring-tubs , which he piled up forthwith into a compact pyramid ; Avith him were some commercial travellers , thoroughly Dutch in appearance , and with tremendous long pipes in their mouths .
The children , the nurses , the priests , the soldiers , the girls , and the smokers , made as odd a group , under the limes and acacias of the pleasure-ground , as can well be imagined ; but while we were contemplating it , with equal interest and surprise , the blast of the horn again sent us whirling off : and what we saw at Amsterdamand Zaandamwhich is as primitive now as it
, , was when Peter the Great took up his temporary abode thereand at Haarlem , Avhere traces yet remain of the Spaniards ' fiery footsteps—and at Leyden , with its academic groves—and at the Hague , and many a pleasant place besides , I must tell you , my reader , when you and I , ' an you will / shall meet again .