A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 pagini |
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... HOLLAND , ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BANKS OF THE RHINE , TO THE SOUTH OF GERMANY , IN THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1806 . Pergit et hostiles ( tanta est fiducia ) ripas Inconitatus adit . CLAUDIAN . BY SIR JOHN CARR , OF THE HONOURABLE ...
... HOLLAND , ALONG THE RIGHT AND LEFT BANKS OF THE RHINE , TO THE SOUTH OF GERMANY , IN THE SUMMER AND AUTUMN OF 1806 . Pergit et hostiles ( tanta est fiducia ) ripas Inconitatus adit . CLAUDIAN . BY SIR JOHN CARR , OF THE HONOURABLE ...
Pagina ix
... Holland from the sea : its coast : a dilemma : the Maas river : anecdote of Napoleon ; of a Dutch woman : a disaster : Rotterdam described : leaning houses CHAPTER II . 1 The boompies : Bayle : prerogatives of genius : Spanish inscrip ...
... Holland from the sea : its coast : a dilemma : the Maas river : anecdote of Napoleon ; of a Dutch woman : a disaster : Rotterdam described : leaning houses CHAPTER II . 1 The boompies : Bayle : prerogatives of genius : Spanish inscrip ...
Pagina x
... Holland very cheap and very agreeable : canal to Delft : Dutch sawing mills : English circular masonry mills : Dutch lan- guage : specimen of the English , Dutch , and German lan- guages 41 CHAPTER VI . Dexterity of boatmen : Overchie ...
... Holland very cheap and very agreeable : canal to Delft : Dutch sawing mills : English circular masonry mills : Dutch lan- guage : specimen of the English , Dutch , and German lan- guages 41 CHAPTER VI . Dexterity of boatmen : Overchie ...
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... HOLLAND . CHAPTER I. A CONFESSION .... THE WAR .... AN ADOPTION .... CONFIDENCE IN FOR- TUNE SOMETIMES NECESSARY .... HATEFUL CHARACTER OF A SPY .... A MOTIVE FOR TRAVELLING .... A MORAL .... ANECDOTE OF A ROYAL DESCRIPTION ...
... HOLLAND . CHAPTER I. A CONFESSION .... THE WAR .... AN ADOPTION .... CONFIDENCE IN FOR- TUNE SOMETIMES NECESSARY .... HATEFUL CHARACTER OF A SPY .... A MOTIVE FOR TRAVELLING .... A MORAL .... ANECDOTE OF A ROYAL DESCRIPTION ...
Pagina 2
... Holland in a more regular mode . I went not to investigate the nakedness of the land , and by availing my- self of its confidence to penetrate the military depôts , the docks and arsenals of a country not in amity with my own . I abhor ...
... Holland in a more regular mode . I went not to investigate the nakedness of the land , and by availing my- self of its confidence to penetrate the military depôts , the docks and arsenals of a country not in amity with my own . I abhor ...
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A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... Sir John Carr Vizualizare completă - 1807 |
A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... Sir John Carr Vizualizare completă - 1807 |
A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... Sir John Carr Vizualizare completă - 1807 |
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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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Pagina 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.
Pagina 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Pagina 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pagina 271 - 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
Pagina 7 - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 276 - 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...
Pagina 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.