A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 ...Phillips, 1807 - 301 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xi
... Leyden : general description of that town : the town - hall : celebrated picture of Lucas Van Leyden ; anecdote of that painter : also of Karel de Moor : pic- ture of the siege of Leyden : description of that horrible siege : generous ...
... Leyden : general description of that town : the town - hall : celebrated picture of Lucas Van Leyden ; anecdote of that painter : also of Karel de Moor : pic- ture of the siege of Leyden : description of that horrible siege : generous ...
Σελίδα xii
... Leyden : conduct of the King . Haarlem ; its celebrated organ described : anec- dote of Handel : Mr. Henry Hope's House CHAPTER XIV . 137 Anecdotes of Lawrence Coster : art of printing how discovered ; its originality disputed : female ...
... Leyden : conduct of the King . Haarlem ; its celebrated organ described : anec- dote of Handel : Mr. Henry Hope's House CHAPTER XIV . 137 Anecdotes of Lawrence Coster : art of printing how discovered ; its originality disputed : female ...
Σελίδα 47
... Leyden and Tielburg . There are also very capital and flourishing manufactures of velvets , silk , and carpets , at Hilversom ; and those of linen and table - cloths , which are exquisite , at Overyssel ; and numerous paper - mills ...
... Leyden and Tielburg . There are also very capital and flourishing manufactures of velvets , silk , and carpets , at Hilversom ; and those of linen and table - cloths , which are exquisite , at Overyssel ; and numerous paper - mills ...
Σελίδα 61
... Leyden , about what neither of them understood . This produced dissensions in the United Provinces . The dispute was in many respects similar to those of the Thomists and Scotists , or of the Jansenists and Molinists , con- cerning ...
... Leyden , about what neither of them understood . This produced dissensions in the United Provinces . The dispute was in many respects similar to those of the Thomists and Scotists , or of the Jansenists and Molinists , con- cerning ...
Σελίδα 71
... Leyden or Haerlem start from . The morning after my arrival there was a grand review of the Dutch troops , who presented a very soldierly appearance ; that of the body - guard , both horse and infantry , was very superb in mili- tary ...
... Leyden or Haerlem start from . The morning after my arrival there was a grand review of the Dutch troops , who presented a very soldierly appearance ; that of the body - guard , both horse and infantry , was very superb in mili- tary ...
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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 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 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 69 - 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 231 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
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.
Σελίδα 273 - 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 216 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Σελίδα 278 - 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 259 - 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.