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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Pagina 8
... manner , we persisted in refusing to quit our vessel , to the no little mortification of our captain , who having safely deposi- ted our passage money in a large tin box , was very anxious to get rid of us in any manner . I believe ...
... manner , we persisted in refusing to quit our vessel , to the no little mortification of our captain , who having safely deposi- ted our passage money in a large tin box , was very anxious to get rid of us in any manner . I believe ...
Pagina 18
... manner in which they were received . The queen , who is always mentioned by those who have had the honour of knowing her before and since the wonderful eleva- tion of so many branches of her family , as a most amiable , en- lightened ...
... manner in which they were received . The queen , who is always mentioned by those who have had the honour of knowing her before and since the wonderful eleva- tion of so many branches of her family , as a most amiable , en- lightened ...
Pagina 20
... manner , thoughtful taciturnity , and abstemiousness : he is a great invalid , and has received some severe paralytic shocks in one of his arms , for which , as well as for the general extreme delicate state of his health , he has been ...
... manner , thoughtful taciturnity , and abstemiousness : he is a great invalid , and has received some severe paralytic shocks in one of his arms , for which , as well as for the general extreme delicate state of his health , he has been ...
Pagina 23
... manner , by attacking that nation through her colonial establishments in the East and West - Indies , and in Africa , and by capturing the rich galleons of their merciless invaders . The bronze figure is clad in an ecclesiastical habit ...
... manner , by attacking that nation through her colonial establishments in the East and West - Indies , and in Africa , and by capturing the rich galleons of their merciless invaders . The bronze figure is clad in an ecclesiastical habit ...
Pagina 32
... manner by his pupil and protégé , Mr. Pugh , for the abolition of giving vails to servants ; previous to which , a gentleman of moderate in- come could scarcely afford to dine with an opulent and fashionable friend . In houses of great ...
... manner by his pupil and protégé , Mr. Pugh , for the abolition of giving vails to servants ; previous to which , a gentleman of moderate in- come could scarcely afford to dine with an opulent and fashionable friend . In houses of great ...
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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.