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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... never wander from the contemplation of her simple charms , but we return to them with pleasure . As the attempt , although aiming at originality , is not of an aspiring nature , I feel the more confidence in stating , that the object of ...
... never wander from the contemplation of her simple charms , but we return to them with pleasure . As the attempt , although aiming at originality , is not of an aspiring nature , I feel the more confidence in stating , that the object of ...
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... never tells a " lie ; nor will she suffer the proudest Frenchman , Dutch- " man or Spaniard , to bamboozle or give her a saucy an- " swer . " 66 66 On the third day , a very singular object presented it- self ; it was Helogoland , a ...
... never tells a " lie ; nor will she suffer the proudest Frenchman , Dutch- " man or Spaniard , to bamboozle or give her a saucy an- " swer . " 66 66 On the third day , a very singular object presented it- self ; it was Helogoland , a ...
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... never suffer the love of gain to excite any other exclamation than that of thanks to God ; not that the storm has happened , but that the ocean has not swallowed up all the wreck from them . How un- like a body of barbarians who infest ...
... never suffer the love of gain to excite any other exclamation than that of thanks to God ; not that the storm has happened , but that the ocean has not swallowed up all the wreck from them . How un- like a body of barbarians who infest ...
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... never fash- ioned by English hands ; but the charm of the name has an influence every where ; its sound is attractive , and the very pedlar of the fair finds his account in its forgery . A custom - house officer waited upon us at the ...
... never fash- ioned by English hands ; but the charm of the name has an influence every where ; its sound is attractive , and the very pedlar of the fair finds his account in its forgery . A custom - house officer waited upon us at the ...
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... never moved their pipes from their mouths . Upon quitting this scene of phlegmatic festivity , I strol- led to the quay , where the skippers were landing the car-- riage , which a fine sprightly powerful fellow of an Eng- lish sailor ...
... never moved their pipes from their mouths . Upon quitting this scene of phlegmatic festivity , I strol- led to the quay , where the skippers were landing the car-- riage , which a fine sprightly powerful fellow of an Eng- lish sailor ...
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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.