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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... visited , a single member of a very ancient family , the most useful , the most ill - treated and depised of any that moves upon all - fours - an ass . About nine o'clock in the evening we arrived at Nioborg , which is a small but ...
... visited , a single member of a very ancient family , the most useful , the most ill - treated and depised of any that moves upon all - fours - an ass . About nine o'clock in the evening we arrived at Nioborg , which is a small but ...
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... of the royal palace , which bore ample and afflicting testimony to the colossal size and magnifi- cence which must have formerly distinguished it , before it fell a victim to the flames in 1794. Upon our visiting 24 A NORTHERN SUMMER .
... of the royal palace , which bore ample and afflicting testimony to the colossal size and magnifi- cence which must have formerly distinguished it , before it fell a victim to the flames in 1794. Upon our visiting 24 A NORTHERN SUMMER .
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... visiting this splendid pile , after dinner , we found , by an inscription remaining unde- faced , that it was raised by Christian VI , out of his own private , purse , without pinching his subjects , and cost six millions of dol- lars ...
... visiting this splendid pile , after dinner , we found , by an inscription remaining unde- faced , that it was raised by Christian VI , out of his own private , purse , without pinching his subjects , and cost six millions of dol- lars ...
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... visited . In England every tradesman's shop is the raree - show of the street , and perhaps it is in allusion to this , as much as to any other cause , that our neighbours on the other side of the channel have pronounced us to be a ...
... visited . In England every tradesman's shop is the raree - show of the street , and perhaps it is in allusion to this , as much as to any other cause , that our neighbours on the other side of the channel have pronounced us to be a ...
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... bestows never withers over the grave of the fallen warrior . The whole is enclosed in a square palisado . As a national mo- nument , it is too diminutive . The next day I visited the spot where so much A NORTHERN SUMMER . 29.
... bestows never withers over the grave of the fallen warrior . The whole is enclosed in a square palisado . As a national mo- nument , it is too diminutive . The next day I visited the spot where so much A NORTHERN SUMMER . 29.
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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.