A tour through Holland ... to the south of Germany, in ... 18061807 |
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Pagina 10
... close , and we entered the river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus peevishly describes : canvass . " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon ...
... close , and we entered the river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus peevishly describes : canvass . " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon ...
Pagina 35
... close , looks loose , " is not observed in this city . An eye prone to the earth , a look of settled meditation , and a measured pace denote the Rotterdammer . Yet with these appearances Holland has not been insensible to that literary ...
... close , looks loose , " is not observed in this city . An eye prone to the earth , a look of settled meditation , and a measured pace denote the Rotterdammer . Yet with these appearances Holland has not been insensible to that literary ...
Pagina 43
... close . The reader will , I am sure , be gratified with this brief description of a plan so generative of every good to the na- tion which adopts it . Children , as soon as they can think , discover that they are the peculiar care of ...
... close . The reader will , I am sure , be gratified with this brief description of a plan so generative of every good to the na- tion which adopts it . Children , as soon as they can think , discover that they are the peculiar care of ...
Pagina 84
... close this digression , the language , I must confess , did not sound dissonant to my ear from the lips of well - bred persons . The following specimens will enable the reader to ob- serve the solidity of the learned Doctor's remark ...
... close this digression , the language , I must confess , did not sound dissonant to my ear from the lips of well - bred persons . The following specimens will enable the reader to ob- serve the solidity of the learned Doctor's remark ...
Pagina 90
... pass . At Overchie , a village about three miles , or one hour from Rotterdam , the houses are close to the water , and little children were playing upon its very margin without VILLAGE OF OVERCHIE . 91 exciting any apprehension . In 90.
... pass . At Overchie , a village about three miles , or one hour from Rotterdam , the houses are close to the water , and little children were playing upon its very margin without VILLAGE OF OVERCHIE . 91 exciting any apprehension . In 90.
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Pagina 185 - 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.
Pagina 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Pagina 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Pagina 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pagina 110 - 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.
Pagina 75 - ... 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.
Pagina 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Pagina 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Pagina 403 - 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.
Pagina 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...