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Pagina 11
... I before mentioned , admiral Cornelius Van Tromp . In the dead of the night , and in a deep fog , a fishing boat dropped along side , the master of which told us that 12 A DILEMMA . the last vessel which had arrived C 2.
... I before mentioned , admiral Cornelius Van Tromp . In the dead of the night , and in a deep fog , a fishing boat dropped along side , the master of which told us that 12 A DILEMMA . the last vessel which had arrived C 2.
Pagina 46
... master , for the trifling expence of five shillings per annum for each child : a plan which is eminently honor- able to its meritorious discoverer , and promises fair to effect an incalculable amelioration in the habits and con- dition ...
... master , for the trifling expence of five shillings per annum for each child : a plan which is eminently honor- able to its meritorious discoverer , and promises fair to effect an incalculable amelioration in the habits and con- dition ...
Pagina 56
... and very respectable merchant ; it is principally filled by the works of that delightful master Nicholas Berchem , and Linglebach ; of the former I shall give a few THE VANDERWERFS . 57 striking anecdotes when I reach Haerlem.
... and very respectable merchant ; it is principally filled by the works of that delightful master Nicholas Berchem , and Linglebach ; of the former I shall give a few THE VANDERWERFS . 57 striking anecdotes when I reach Haerlem.
Pagina 58
... master are very rare , and bear very high prices . He is principally celebrated for the roundness and relief of his figures ; his defect lay in a coldness of colouring . Upon his pictures he labored with unsparing toil , which injured ...
... master are very rare , and bear very high prices . He is principally celebrated for the roundness and relief of his figures ; his defect lay in a coldness of colouring . Upon his pictures he labored with unsparing toil , which injured ...
Pagina 76
... master is suf- fered to misuse his authority to a shameful excess . In- stead of bringing delinquents to justice , he is in the fre- quent habit of privately compromising public offence , and putting the sum paid into his own pocket ...
... master is suf- fered to misuse his authority to a shameful excess . In- stead of bringing delinquents to justice , he is in the fre- quent habit of privately compromising public offence , and putting the sum paid into his own pocket ...
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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...