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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... of romantic scenery , that had a certain wit but tasted of the former , he would have spared the whole country in which it stands , and would not have answered , when requested to declare B his opinion of the good people of Devon , that.
... of romantic scenery , that had a certain wit but tasted of the former , he would have spared the whole country in which it stands , and would not have answered , when requested to declare B his opinion of the good people of Devon , that.
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... whole mounted upon high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads which are very deep and sandy . Soon after dinner I strolled through the fair , which was filled with peasantry from ...
... whole mounted upon high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads which are very deep and sandy . Soon after dinner I strolled through the fair , which was filled with peasantry from ...
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... whole up . on a ground floor , and under one roof . As we approached Flensborg , the country became more agreeable , and we observed the wonderful activity with which nature was every where exerting herself , in a eli mate which so much ...
... whole up . on a ground floor , and under one roof . As we approached Flensborg , the country became more agreeable , and we observed the wonderful activity with which nature was every where exerting herself , in a eli mate which so much ...
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... whole squadron of the guards were immolated , not one of whom were saved , an order having been given that no one should attempt to assist his neighbor in such an emergen ey upon pain of death . After passing the Little Belt in the same ...
... whole squadron of the guards were immolated , not one of whom were saved , an order having been given that no one should attempt to assist his neighbor in such an emergen ey upon pain of death . After passing the Little Belt in the same ...
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... whole the court is not a very munificent patron of the drama , and the performers seldom exceed mediocrity . In the middle of the market- place is an equestrian statue in bronze of Christian V. but too deficient in merit to attract the ...
... whole the court is not a very munificent patron of the drama , and the performers seldom exceed mediocrity . In the middle of the market- place is an equestrian statue in bronze of Christian V. but too deficient in merit to attract the ...
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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.