A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 páginas |
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... delight- ful passage to the Hague : Dutch discussion of Desdemona's wish : Ryswick : approach to the Hague : Dutch review : old and new constitutions compared : brief review of the ancient constitution of Holland : also of the political ...
... delight- ful passage to the Hague : Dutch discussion of Desdemona's wish : Ryswick : approach to the Hague : Dutch review : old and new constitutions compared : brief review of the ancient constitution of Holland : also of the political ...
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... delightful suburbs . I walked along a line of them , and beheld for the first time a specimen of the taste of the Dutch in rural scenery : the gardens , upon a level with the river , and divided from it by a high raised road , appeared ...
... delightful suburbs . I walked along a line of them , and beheld for the first time a specimen of the taste of the Dutch in rural scenery : the gardens , upon a level with the river , and divided from it by a high raised road , appeared ...
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... delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance to it . Many of the houses are very noble , and some of them are built of free - stone , which not being the produce of the country , must have been brought to the ...
... delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance to it . Many of the houses are very noble , and some of them are built of free - stone , which not being the produce of the country , must have been brought to the ...
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... delighted princesses touched with their fragrant lips the cheeks of poets ; as the Venetians paid to Sannazarius six hundred pistoles for six verses ; as Baif received a silver image of Minerva from his native city , and Ronsard had ...
... delighted princesses touched with their fragrant lips the cheeks of poets ; as the Venetians paid to Sannazarius six hundred pistoles for six verses ; as Baif received a silver image of Minerva from his native city , and Ronsard had ...
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... delight . In 1572 the Spaniards , Vandal - like , shot at the stone statue with their mus- kets , and threw it in the canal , from whence it was afterwards rais- ed and again set up , by order of the magistrates , upon the expul- sion ...
... delight . In 1572 the Spaniards , Vandal - like , shot at the stone statue with their mus- kets , and threw it in the canal , from whence it was afterwards rais- ed and again set up , by order of the magistrates , upon the expul- sion ...
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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Página 38 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate: and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind; And call him noble, that was now your hate, Him vile, that was your garland.
Página 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Página 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 271 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Página 60 - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
Página 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
Página 7 - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
Página 116 - 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 276 - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Página 46 - ... 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.