A tour through Holland ... to the south of Germany, in ... 18061807 |
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... nearly an hour after we anchored , and sufficiently explain- ed the motive which induced the captain of the smack to return to port . The signification of the word Briel , in Dutch , is spectacle , which is supposed to have given its ...
... nearly an hour after we anchored , and sufficiently explain- ed the motive which induced the captain of the smack to return to port . The signification of the word Briel , in Dutch , is spectacle , which is supposed to have given its ...
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... nearly in the predica- ment of his military countryman's breeches before men- tioned , came up to Bonaparte , and begged that he would order him a new pair , to which his general , who had none to give him , very shrewdly replied , " my ...
... nearly in the predica- ment of his military countryman's breeches before men- tioned , came up to Bonaparte , and begged that he would order him a new pair , to which his general , who had none to give him , very shrewdly replied , " my ...
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sir John Carr. A DISASTER . 15 luckless accident had nearly befallen me . The luggage of the passengers was deposited in small holds nearly the length of the vessel , covered over with loose boards the night was dark , and as by the ...
sir John Carr. A DISASTER . 15 luckless accident had nearly befallen me . The luggage of the passengers was deposited in small holds nearly the length of the vessel , covered over with loose boards the night was dark , and as by the ...
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... nearly fifteen different sorts of fish , exquisitely dressed , and served up with vegetables of various kinds . In Holland , in preparing the fish for the kettle , the head , and fins , and tail , are generally cut off . In this city ...
... nearly fifteen different sorts of fish , exquisitely dressed , and served up with vegetables of various kinds . In Holland , in preparing the fish for the kettle , the head , and fins , and tail , are generally cut off . In this city ...
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... nearly ex- hausted their stores of it . The Dey of Tunis made a more whimsical offer ; when the heroic and immortal Nelson threatened to blow his capital about his ears , the Dey sent to his lordship to know the cost of every shot that ...
... nearly ex- hausted their stores of it . The Dey of Tunis made a more whimsical offer ; when the heroic and immortal Nelson threatened to blow his capital about his ears , the Dey sent to his lordship to know the cost of every shot that ...
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Σελίδα 185 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Σελίδα 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Σελίδα 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Σελίδα 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Σελίδα 110 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Σελίδα 75 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Σελίδα 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Σελίδα 403 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.
Σελίδα 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...