A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 σελίδες |
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... head and of the heart , which will endear your memory to that unhappy country for ever , and you have left to it the benefits a brilliant example . That your illustrious successor may adopt the same clemency and wisdom which your Grace ...
... head and of the heart , which will endear your memory to that unhappy country for ever , and you have left to it the benefits a brilliant example . That your illustrious successor may adopt the same clemency and wisdom which your Grace ...
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... the air upon the truck head of the main top gallant mast ; the Dutchman endeavoured to do the same , but in the attempt fell upon the deck , from which , with great anguish and difficulty , he raised himself a TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 5.
... the air upon the truck head of the main top gallant mast ; the Dutchman endeavoured to do the same , but in the attempt fell upon the deck , from which , with great anguish and difficulty , he raised himself a TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 5.
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... head . Gladly we bade adieu to our miserable ark , and about six o'clock in the evening embarked upon the Merwe river , a noble branch of the Maas , the breadth of which is about a mile , lessening but in a little degree as it reaches ...
... head . Gladly we bade adieu to our miserable ark , and about six o'clock in the evening embarked upon the Merwe river , a noble branch of the Maas , the breadth of which is about a mile , lessening but in a little degree as it reaches ...
Σελίδα 11
... ping in : they were broad , high at the head and stern , admitted only of one rower , and had a heavy cabin with moveable glass windows towards the stern . One of the first appearances which impress a foreigner on TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 11.
... ping in : they were broad , high at the head and stern , admitted only of one rower , and had a heavy cabin with moveable glass windows towards the stern . One of the first appearances which impress a foreigner on TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 11.
Σελίδα 13
... head , the two places where the water enters the city , and fills the canals , which are seven in number : this street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly ...
... head , the two places where the water enters the city , and fills the canals , which are seven in number : this street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly ...
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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Σελίδα 38 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate: and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind; And call him noble, that was now your hate, Him vile, that was your garland.
Σελίδα 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Σελίδα 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Σελίδα 271 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Σελίδα 60 - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
Σελίδα 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
Σελίδα 7 - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
Σελίδα 116 - 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 276 - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Σελίδα 46 - ... 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.