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... character of the poor , suffering Irish peasant , in all its rough but affecting simplicity ; you beheld a fellow - being possessed of affections easily to be won by ten- DEDICATION . derness , of a vivid imagination , and CONTENTS CHAPTER.
... character of the poor , suffering Irish peasant , in all its rough but affecting simplicity ; you beheld a fellow - being possessed of affections easily to be won by ten- DEDICATION . derness , of a vivid imagination , and CONTENTS CHAPTER.
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... character of a spy : a motive for travelling : a moral : anecdote of a royal description : miseries of a Dutch galliot : Calvin and Servetus : religion and a rope's end : Dutch anecdote of fortitude : anecdote of a Newfoundland dog ...
... character of a spy : a motive for travelling : a moral : anecdote of a royal description : miseries of a Dutch galliot : Calvin and Servetus : religion and a rope's end : Dutch anecdote of fortitude : anecdote of a Newfoundland dog ...
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... CHARACTER OF A SPY - A MO- TIVE FOR TRAVELLING A MORAL - ANECDOTE OF A ROYAL DE- SCRIPTION - MISERIES OF A DUTCH GALLIOT - CALVIN AND SERVE- TUS - RELIGION AND A ROPE'S END - DUTCH ANECDOTE OF FORTI- TUDE ANECDOTE OF A NEWFOUNDLAND ...
... CHARACTER OF A SPY - A MO- TIVE FOR TRAVELLING A MORAL - ANECDOTE OF A ROYAL DE- SCRIPTION - MISERIES OF A DUTCH GALLIOT - CALVIN AND SERVE- TUS - RELIGION AND A ROPE'S END - DUTCH ANECDOTE OF FORTI- TUDE ANECDOTE OF A NEWFOUNDLAND ...
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... character respected in every country , as well for its being most wisely and profitably at peace with all the world , as for its integrity and enterprize : I became an Ameri- can , and by an act of temporary adoption , fixed upon ...
... character respected in every country , as well for its being most wisely and profitably at peace with all the world , as for its integrity and enterprize : I became an Ameri- can , and by an act of temporary adoption , fixed upon ...
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... character of a spy , moving in a friendly garb , however useful his treachery may be to his em- ployers . My imposition extended no farther than to enable me to make a picturesque tour through an almost aqueous kingdom , to view its ...
... character of a spy , moving in a friendly garb , however useful his treachery may be to his em- ployers . My imposition extended no farther than to enable me to make a picturesque tour through an almost aqueous kingdom , to view its ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admirable afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam ANECDOTE antient appearance arms artist bank Batavian republic beautiful Berghem boat building called canals carriage celebrated chamber church colouring consequence CONSTITUTION council Delft displayed Douw Duke Dutch elegant Emperor England English expence exquisite florins formed France French frequently gardens grand grand pensionary Guelderland guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honor hour house of Orange illustrious inhabitants Jan Steen John of Leyden king laws Leyden Maas magnificent majesty manner master ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers opulent painted painter palace passed persons picture present Prince of Orange principal prisoners province racter received Rembrandt resided Rhine river Rotterdam royal scarcely scenery Scheveling side spirit STADT-HOUSE Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion town traveller treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast visited whilst wood
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Página 185 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Página 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Página 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Página 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 110 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 75 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Página 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Página 403 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Página 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...