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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... object of it . At Gravesend we paid six guineas apiece to a Dutch captain , and a little favourable breeze springing up , we proceeded on board with a large party composed of specimens of the human race from various parts of the globe ...
... object of it . At Gravesend we paid six guineas apiece to a Dutch captain , and a little favourable breeze springing up , we proceeded on board with a large party composed of specimens of the human race from various parts of the globe ...
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... objects that saluted our eyes , in this state , was the telegraph , which was in a state of uncommon activity , and the glasses of its official attendants often came in direct oppo- sition with ours . The balls flew up and down with ...
... objects that saluted our eyes , in this state , was the telegraph , which was in a state of uncommon activity , and the glasses of its official attendants often came in direct oppo- sition with ours . The balls flew up and down with ...
Σελίδα 26
... object of this measure is not out of homage to St. Cecilia , but from a commercial spirit , that repines at hearing ... objects with her government ; and I was well informed , that to the further promotion of this great and vital source ...
... object of this measure is not out of homage to St. Cecilia , but from a commercial spirit , that repines at hearing ... objects with her government ; and I was well informed , that to the further promotion of this great and vital source ...
Σελίδα 47
... rather a thin line , and we slipped through the liquid road , sensible of moving only from passing the objects that lined the sides of the canal , consisting for a considerable way of pretty houses and avenues TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 47.
... rather a thin line , and we slipped through the liquid road , sensible of moving only from passing the objects that lined the sides of the canal , consisting for a considerable way of pretty houses and avenues TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 47.
Σελίδα 50
... object of high national impor- tance . In our treckschuyt , I witnessed a strong contrast to the spirits and loquacity of the French and Germans ; all was smoke and silence , save when it yielded to a few short sentences , in which the ...
... object of high national impor- tance . In our treckschuyt , I witnessed a strong contrast to the spirits and loquacity of the French and Germans ; all was smoke and silence , save when it yielded to a few short sentences , in which the ...
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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.