Identifier: rhineitssceneryh00hunt (find matches)
Title: The Rhine; its scenery and historical and legendary associations
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Hunt, Frederick Knight, 1814-1854. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Legends
Publisher: London, J. How
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. Cresar passed the river at the samespot. Hoche was one of the self-made heroes of the French revolutionary period.The son of a keeper of the dog-kennels of Louis XV., he educated himself bygreat perseverance and self-denial; and, entering the ranks at the age of sixteen,he died at thirty, the most celebrated commander of the armies of his country.From this spot the banks have but little interest, until the Traveller comes insight of the junction of the Moselle with the Rhine, when Coblentz and Ehren-breitstein are before him. Coblentz is not a place to be passed by merely with a glance. It is quiteworthy of a days attention from the hastiest tourist. The view of the city iseminently picturesque ; its historical associations are many and interesting; thefortress of Ehrenbreitstein — the Broad Stone of Honour — should be seen bothas a fortress and for the views to be enjoyed from the summit; whilst manydelightful Excursions may be enjoyed in this neighbourhood. 144 THE RHTNE BOOK.
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EHRENB REITS TETN, Here Ehrenbreitstein, with her shatterd wall Black with the miners blast upon her height,Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball Rebounding idly on her strength did light,A tower of victory ! from whence the flight Of baffled foes was watchd along the plain ;But Peace destroyd what War could never blight, And laid those proud roofs bare to Summers rain- —On which the iron shower for years had pourd in vain. — Byrox. At Coblentz the sons of Charlemagne met to divide their fathers empire intoFrance, Germany, and Italy ; there also Edward III., in 1338, met the EmperorLouis, and was by him appointed vicar of the empire ; and at Coblentz the Frenchraised a monument in 1814 to commemorate the subjugation of Russia, — as theyreared a column at Boulogne in honour of their invasion of England. Soon afterthe inscription was finished the Russian commander entered Coblentz in pursuitof Buonaparte. With memorable and caustic wit he left the braggadocia as itstood,

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