A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 ...Phillips, 1807 - 301 páginas |
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... belong- ed to a florist at Haerlem , and another florist offered this price for it . The reason which the owner gave me for refusing the offer was , that his hyacinth was known to all the amateurs of Europe , and that he sold the bulbs ...
... belong- ed to a florist at Haerlem , and another florist offered this price for it . The reason which the owner gave me for refusing the offer was , that his hyacinth was known to all the amateurs of Europe , and that he sold the bulbs ...
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... belonging to Herman , which are very scare in Holland , and a fine collection of mathematical instruments ; amongst other things , a most pure and brilliant prism of Brazil pebble , and a two - inch cube of Iceland refracting spar ...
... belonging to Herman , which are very scare in Holland , and a fine collection of mathematical instruments ; amongst other things , a most pure and brilliant prism of Brazil pebble , and a two - inch cube of Iceland refracting spar ...
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... belonging to Mr. Gevers , who has a noble mansion , and grounds very tastefully disposed ; and who upon all occasions is happy to permit strangers to visit his cabinet , and to show them every hos- pitality . Near this city , in the ...
... belonging to Mr. Gevers , who has a noble mansion , and grounds very tastefully disposed ; and who upon all occasions is happy to permit strangers to visit his cabinet , and to show them every hos- pitality . Near this city , in the ...
Página 145
... belong to the most opulent merchants of Amsterdam . Haarlem is not so beau- tiful as Leyden , but abounds with spacious streets , canals , ave- nues , and handsome houses ; it is about four miles from the sea , and fifteen from ...
... belong to the most opulent merchants of Amsterdam . Haarlem is not so beau- tiful as Leyden , but abounds with spacious streets , canals , ave- nues , and handsome houses ; it is about four miles from the sea , and fifteen from ...
Página 146
... belonging to it , who resides in an adjoining house , and attended by a lady - like looking woman , perhaps his wife , or house - keeper , I was admitted into this venerable pile , where the first object that struck me was the ...
... belonging to it , who resides in an adjoining house , and attended by a lady - like looking woman , perhaps his wife , or house - keeper , I was admitted into this venerable pile , where the first object that struck me was the ...
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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 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 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 69 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Página 231 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
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.
Página 273 - 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 216 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Página 278 - 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 259 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.