Travels Into Different Parts of Europe: In the Years 1791 and 1792. With Familiar Remarks on Places--men--and Manners, Τόμος 1

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T. Cadell, jun., and W. Davis, 1796
 

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Σελίδα 247 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Σελίδα 252 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Σελίδα 181 - Yes! let the rich deride, the proud disdain These simple blessings of the lowly train; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.
Σελίδα 260 - A Dungeon horrible, on all fides round As one great Furnace flam'd, yet from thofe flames No light, but rather darknefs vifible Serv'd only to difcover fights of woe, Regions of forrow, doleful fhades, where peace And reft can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all...
Σελίδα 84 - Imagine, says he, a short figure, with more breadth than goes to the proportion of elegance, and with very little alteration in the width downward to the waist, the petticoats descending only half way below the knee. Imagine further, a round small face covered with a hat of three feet in diameter, perfectly circular, and applied to the head in a part contiguous to the circumference. Then conceive...
Σελίδα 170 - Strafburgh was want of money. Nothing is to be found in circulation but paper and copper. " Tout iroit bien," laid an old man,
Σελίδα 17 - Agreeably to the law of the affembly, the gains of the evening were to be diipofed of, at the difcretion of the lady of the houfe, in purpofes of charity. This is a cuftom of ancient eftablifhment.

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