A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804Lincoln and Gleason, 1806 - 330 páginas |
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... late Sir William Jones , will you allow a Traveller to express his thoughts to you in contempla . ting your character and situation ? I cannot but felicitate that race of my fellow - creatures who are placed within the protection of ...
... late Sir William Jones , will you allow a Traveller to express his thoughts to you in contempla . ting your character and situation ? I cannot but felicitate that race of my fellow - creatures who are placed within the protection of ...
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... late- ness of the hour , threw many difficulties in the way of our determination , which , however , the tender looks and eloquence of a French girl at the inn , aided by a little bribery on our part , effectually removed . Here the ...
... late- ness of the hour , threw many difficulties in the way of our determination , which , however , the tender looks and eloquence of a French girl at the inn , aided by a little bribery on our part , effectually removed . Here the ...
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... late fire . The only theatre in the city is here : it was not open during our stay . This building is detached , small , but handsome without , and within is elegantly decorated : in the sea- son , the performers play four times in the ...
... late fire . The only theatre in the city is here : it was not open during our stay . This building is detached , small , but handsome without , and within is elegantly decorated : in the sea- son , the performers play four times in the ...
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... late Count Bernstoff , in gratitude for their liberation : ' Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'er Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . COWPER . Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of ...
... late Count Bernstoff , in gratitude for their liberation : ' Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'er Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . COWPER . Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of ...
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... them appeared to be admirably chiseled . Upon returning to the carriage , the images of what . I had just seen produced the following lines : FREDENSBORG , THE DESERTED PALACE OF THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER NORTHERN SUMMER . [ CHAP . 5.
... them appeared to be admirably chiseled . Upon returning to the carriage , the images of what . I had just seen produced the following lines : FREDENSBORG , THE DESERTED PALACE OF THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER NORTHERN SUMMER . [ CHAP . 5.
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Página 51 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 35 - 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 324 - 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 52 - 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 294 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd 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 100 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 221 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 26 - And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. I He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent 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 charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Página 70 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
Página 171 - Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.