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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Σελίδα 4
... miles , left us as a legacy to the tardy tides . Indeed , we almost tided it over to Holland , in the achievement of which we were six long days and nights ; but then the days were serene and warm , and the nights were adorned by a ...
... miles , left us as a legacy to the tardy tides . Indeed , we almost tided it over to Holland , in the achievement of which we were six long days and nights ; but then the days were serene and warm , and the nights were adorned by a ...
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... miles , at half a guinea a 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 ...
... miles , at half a guinea a 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 ...
Σελίδα 13
... mile from the new to the old 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 ...
... mile from the new to the old 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 ...
Σελίδα 36
... miles from Rotterdam , resides a celebrated artist of the name of Varestage , aged about fifty ; he is justly celebrated for his candle- light subjects , which are masterly : one of his works , a school by candlelight , and a number of ...
... miles from Rotterdam , resides a celebrated artist of the name of Varestage , aged about fifty ; he is justly celebrated for his candle- light subjects , which are masterly : one of his works , a school by candlelight , and a number of ...
Σελίδα 48
... miles an hour , that the Dutch always compute by the hour instead of the mile . * In the cabin or roof , there are four oblique windows , which move up and down , a table in the middle , with a long drawer filled with pipes . The seats ...
... miles an hour , that the Dutch always compute by the hour instead of the mile . * In the cabin or roof , there are four oblique windows , which move up and down , a table in the middle , with a long drawer filled with pipes . The seats ...
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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.