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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... received us , baggage and all . As we proceeded up the river , which became narrower as we advanced , and which seemed more * I allude to the wreckers of Hope Cove , near Kingsbridge . like thin mud than water , through which we heavily ...
... received us , baggage and all . As we proceeded up the river , which became narrower as we advanced , and which seemed more * I allude to the wreckers of Hope Cove , near Kingsbridge . like thin mud than water , through which we heavily ...
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... received is the Danish specie dollar , and the notes of the banks of Slesvig and Holstein , as also those of the bank of Norway . The specie dollar contains sixty skillings , or so many English pence , of the cur- rency of Slesvig and ...
... received is the Danish specie dollar , and the notes of the banks of Slesvig and Holstein , as also those of the bank of Norway . The specie dollar contains sixty skillings , or so many English pence , of the cur- rency of Slesvig and ...
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... received a cessation of hostilities took place , and Lord Nelson left his ship to go on shore . Upon his arrival at the quay he found a carriage which had been sent for him by Mr. D. , à merchant of high respectability , the confusion ...
... received a cessation of hostilities took place , and Lord Nelson left his ship to go on shore . Upon his arrival at the quay he found a carriage which had been sent for him by Mr. D. , à merchant of high respectability , the confusion ...
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... 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 he knew , And all the ...
... 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 he knew , And all the ...
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... received of the magnitude of the Danish commerce . Nature , which has broken the kingdom into islands , has instinc- tively made the Danes merchants and sailors : their principal foreign trade is with France , Portugal , and Italy , and ...
... received of the magnitude of the Danish commerce . Nature , which has broken the kingdom into islands , has instinc- tively made the Danes merchants and sailors : their principal foreign trade is with France , Portugal , and Italy , and ...
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admirable adorned amongst appearance attended beautiful beheld brick building carriage Catherine Catherine II celebrated Charles XII church colour copecs Copenhagen Courland court covered crown Danish delight Denmark dinner displayed dress ducat elegant emperor England English miles Englishman favour favourite feet formed French frequently gardens German graceful grand granite groschen ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome Holstein honour horses hundred Husum imperial king knout lady late empress look magnificent majesty Mittau Neva never night noble o'clock observed officers painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg post-house presented prince proceeded Queen raised resembling respectable river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene shew ships side Slesvig sovereign Stockholm stone streets Strelna stuccoed summer gardens Sweden Swedish taste theatre thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst young
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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.