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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... soon as they can think , discover that they are the peculiar care of their country ; they are taught to respect its laws , and by descanting upon , to imitate its most shining exam- ples , and to repay the paternal solicitude of the ...
... soon as they can think , discover that they are the peculiar care of their country ; they are taught to respect its laws , and by descanting upon , to imitate its most shining exam- ples , and to repay the paternal solicitude of the ...
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... Soon after the door was bursted in , two ruffians entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged both his pistols at once . Two other associates of the dead men immediately returned the fire , but without effect , when ...
... Soon after the door was bursted in , two ruffians entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged both his pistols at once . Two other associates of the dead men immediately returned the fire , but without effect , when ...
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... soon as I entered , a bottle of wine and glasses , and pipes and tobacco , were put before me , for which I paid a florin , and which is considered as the pre- mium of admission . F # These miserable wretches were all prostitutes and ...
... soon as I entered , a bottle of wine and glasses , and pipes and tobacco , were put before me , for which I paid a florin , and which is considered as the pre- mium of admission . F # These miserable wretches were all prostitutes and ...
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... soon damp the spirits of a traveller , unless naturally very vivacious . There is no theatre , no place of public amusement , but the spill - houses I have described , which are as much , at least to feeling minds , not accustomed to ...
... soon damp the spirits of a traveller , unless naturally very vivacious . There is no theatre , no place of public amusement , but the spill - houses I have described , which are as much , at least to feeling minds , not accustomed to ...
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... soon feels out of his proper element when out of a canal . Right merri- ly did I follow my commissionary and his wheel barrow with my baggage through the whole town , until I reached the Hague gate , when my favourite conveyance , the ...
... soon feels out of his proper element when out of a canal . Right merri- ly did I follow my commissionary and his wheel barrow with my baggage through the whole town , until I reached the Hague gate , when my favourite conveyance , 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.