A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804R. Phillips, 1805 - 480 páginas |
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... which the good people here boil in their soup . The few houses which we saw on the road side were , however , neatly built , with a light brown brick , and thatched . The steeple and the body of the church were every A NORTHERN SUMMER . 15.
... which the good people here boil in their soup . The few houses which we saw on the road side were , however , neatly built , with a light brown brick , and thatched . The steeple and the body of the church were every A NORTHERN SUMMER . 15.
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... built of brick , with two low towers : there are some royal tombs here , very ancient , which are principally filled with the ashes of the descendants of Sweyn II , and are level with the pavement . We passed many forests of fine beech ...
... built of brick , with two low towers : there are some royal tombs here , very ancient , which are principally filled with the ashes of the descendants of Sweyn II , and are level with the pavement . We passed many forests of fine beech ...
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... built by Inigo Jones , attracted our notice ; the gardens belonging to which form the principal town - parade of the belles and beaux of Copenha- gen . The statues in these gardens are not worthy of notice , although recommended to the ...
... built by Inigo Jones , attracted our notice ; the gardens belonging to which form the principal town - parade of the belles and beaux of Copenha- gen . The statues in these gardens are not worthy of notice , although recommended to the ...
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... built by Christian IV : it stands in a lake , and seems to be fit only for the residence of frogs , and , I believe , with the exception of two old housekeepers , it has no other inmates . The Sal de Chevalier is a very long room ...
... built by Christian IV : it stands in a lake , and seems to be fit only for the residence of frogs , and , I believe , with the exception of two old housekeepers , it has no other inmates . The Sal de Chevalier is a very long room ...
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... built of wood , painted red or light yellow : they seldom exceed two stories , frequently containing only a suite of ground floor apartments , and are far more comfortable within , than handsome without . Sometimes they are built of ...
... built of wood , painted red or light yellow : they seldom exceed two stories , frequently containing only a suite of ground floor apartments , and are far more comfortable within , than handsome without . Sometimes they are built of ...
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Página 114 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased.
Página 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 24 - 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 24 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Página 299 - 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 39 - 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 14 - Peesel, be quiet ; it is very late, i' faith : I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. Pist. These be good humors, indeed ! Shall pack-horses, And hollow, pampered jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty miles a day...
Página 272 - 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 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 15 - To him indifferent 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 charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all.