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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... canals , which are seven in number : this street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance ...
... canals , which are seven in number : this street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance ...
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... canals deeper and cleaner than in any other of the large cities in the kingdom . In consequence of the features of every street being so similar , a stranger finds uncommon difficulty in reaching the place of his destination , or in ...
... canals deeper and cleaner than in any other of the large cities in the kingdom . In consequence of the features of every street being so similar , a stranger finds uncommon difficulty in reaching the place of his destination , or in ...
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... canals , rivers and deep snows , many by the most wretched open conveyances , in their way to Helvoetsluys , where they embarked for that coun- try , which , since the time of the first Charles , has , thank Heaven ! been neither the ...
... canals , rivers and deep snows , many by the most wretched open conveyances , in their way to Helvoetsluys , where they embarked for that coun- try , which , since the time of the first Charles , has , thank Heaven ! been neither the ...
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... canal , and is near- ly ten feet high ; it was finished in 1622 , and is said to be the chef - d'œuvre of Henry de Keiser , a very celebrated statuary and architect . It has been observed , that in the quality of the different statues ...
... canal , and is near- ly ten feet high ; it was finished in 1622 , and is said to be the chef - d'œuvre of Henry de Keiser , a very celebrated statuary and architect . It has been observed , that in the quality of the different statues ...
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... canals enables the Dutch . women to indulge to the full extent of their wishes , in scrubbing and mopping their passages and rooms , which they do from the first to the last blush of day ; indeed , cleanliness in their houses is carried ...
... canals enables the Dutch . women to indulge to the full extent of their wishes , in scrubbing and mopping their passages and rooms , which they do from the first to the last blush of day ; indeed , cleanliness in their houses is carried ...
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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.