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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... dresses ; the men in blue or brown druggets , and large round hats , and the women in coarse striped camlet gowns , in ... dress and ap- pearance were very shabby ; he dispatched one of his brother sol- diers with us to the burgomaster ...
... dresses ; the men in blue or brown druggets , and large round hats , and the women in coarse striped camlet gowns , in ... dress and ap- pearance were very shabby ; he dispatched one of his brother sol- diers with us to the burgomaster ...
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... dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in the gardens of Fredericks- berg , which , with the permission of his majesty , is the favour- ite resort of the people . We were detained a few minutes at the custom - house ...
... dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in the gardens of Fredericks- berg , which , with the permission of his majesty , is the favour- ite resort of the people . We were detained a few minutes at the custom - house ...
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... dress as their neighbours ; they want such a man as Addison to rally them with his delicate satire out of a slovenly habit , which induces them , when they buy a gown , almost always to prefer a dark cotton , because it does not want ...
... dress as their neighbours ; they want such a man as Addison to rally them with his delicate satire out of a slovenly habit , which induces them , when they buy a gown , almost always to prefer a dark cotton , because it does not want ...
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... dresses , Indian , Chinese , & c .; great vases of gold and silver ; a flagon or decanter of rock chrystal , very ... dress : the prelate's skull reminded me of the ridiculous question which a lady put to one of the li- brarians of ...
... dresses , Indian , Chinese , & c .; great vases of gold and silver ; a flagon or decanter of rock chrystal , very ... dress : the prelate's skull reminded me of the ridiculous question which a lady put to one of the li- brarians of ...
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... dress , which it has received from the distinguished pen of William Hayley , esq . THE HERMIT'S EPITAPH . Here may he rest , who , shunning scenes of strife , Enjoy'd at Dronningaard a Hermit's life ; The faithless splendour of a court ...
... dress , which it has received from the distinguished pen of William Hayley , esq . THE HERMIT'S EPITAPH . Here may he rest , who , shunning scenes of strife , Enjoy'd at Dronningaard a Hermit's life ; The faithless splendour of a court ...
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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.