A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804R. Phillips, 1805 - 480 páginas |
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... Catherine II , when he visited her at Petersburgh , in order to in- duce his pride and spirit more ardently to attempt the change by which she secretly hoped that he would disgust the Swedes , and thereby induce them to attempt the ...
... Catherine II , when he visited her at Petersburgh , in order to in- duce his pride and spirit more ardently to attempt the change by which she secretly hoped that he would disgust the Swedes , and thereby induce them to attempt the ...
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... Catherine and Margaret ; and in another , that of the Stures , whom I have before mentioned ; the Latin inscription upon this monument thus affectingly concludes : " All that was noble and " magnanimous could not soften the iron heart ...
... Catherine and Margaret ; and in another , that of the Stures , whom I have before mentioned ; the Latin inscription upon this monument thus affectingly concludes : " All that was noble and " magnanimous could not soften the iron heart ...
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... Catherine , at the top of Mount Moses , to take my last fare- wel of this enchanting city , which , warmed by a brilliant sun- tint , lay beautifully expanded below me . Having laid in our provisions , —and let me recommend 112 A ...
... Catherine , at the top of Mount Moses , to take my last fare- wel of this enchanting city , which , warmed by a brilliant sun- tint , lay beautifully expanded below me . Having laid in our provisions , —and let me recommend 112 A ...
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... Catherine's , mounted upon her airy summit , the houses , the palace , and the spires , seemed composed of light cloud and mist . The silence of this delicious repose of na- ture was only faintly broken by the dashing of the oar , and ...
... Catherine's , mounted upon her airy summit , the houses , the palace , and the spires , seemed composed of light cloud and mist . The silence of this delicious repose of na- ture was only faintly broken by the dashing of the oar , and ...
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... , a building of brick stuccoed , and painted green and white , almost every street may be seen , It was here , in the year 1783 , that Catherine II and Gustavus III had an interview . Upon this occasion , A NORTHERN SUMMER . 125.
... , a building of brick stuccoed , and painted green and white , almost every street may be seen , It was here , in the year 1783 , that Catherine II and Gustavus III had an interview . Upon this occasion , A NORTHERN SUMMER . 125.
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Página 114 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased.
Página 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 24 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Página 24 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 299 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
Página 39 - The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
Página 14 - Peesel, be quiet ; it is very late, i' faith : I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. Pist. These be good humors, indeed ! Shall pack-horses, And hollow, pampered jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty miles a day...
Página 272 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 15 - To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all.