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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... raised to the memory of captain Christensen , of Krajore in Nor- way , who fell by the bite of his dog , when mad ; the tale was simply , but touchingly , told , and drew from me the following lines : 1 Ah ! hapless stranger ! who ...
... raised to the memory of captain Christensen , of Krajore in Nor- way , who fell by the bite of his dog , when mad ; the tale was simply , but touchingly , told , and drew from me the following lines : 1 Ah ! hapless stranger ! who ...
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... raised a little subscription for her , and dismissed her with an involuntary exclamation of abhorrence against the parent . In the first step which an Englishman makes out of his own country , he is sure to meet with something to ...
... raised a little subscription for her , and dismissed her with an involuntary exclamation of abhorrence against the parent . In the first step which an Englishman makes out of his own country , he is sure to meet with something to ...
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... raised about two feet and a half high from the floor , and very much resembles that of a blacksmith's forge ; the meat is baked , or , as they call it , roasted , in a sort of cheese - toaster , and having undergone the previous ...
... raised about two feet and a half high from the floor , and very much resembles that of a blacksmith's forge ; the meat is baked , or , as they call it , roasted , in a sort of cheese - toaster , and having undergone the previous ...
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... raised a high cap of lace , decorated with a profusion of arti- ficial flowers , and with a large nosegay of spring and artificial flowers in her bosom , and a book in her hand , and turning in her D toes most abominably , passed in the ...
... raised a high cap of lace , decorated with a profusion of arti- ficial flowers , and with a large nosegay of spring and artificial flowers in her bosom , and a book in her hand , and turning in her D toes most abominably , passed in the ...
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... raised stone coffins , which are covered with black velvet palls , embroidered with small crowns of gold , falling in full drapery upon the floor . It is foreign to my purpose to enumerate them all . The most superb tomb is that of ...
... raised stone coffins , which are covered with black velvet palls , embroidered with small crowns of gold , falling in full drapery upon the floor . It is foreign to my purpose to enumerate them all . The most superb tomb is that 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.