A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 ...Phillips, 1807 - 301 pagini |
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Pagina xiii
... beautiful lines : anecdotes of distin- guished persons born at Utrecht ; the ancient inhabitants : a direction : the city of Arnheim : anecdote of Beck : Dutchy of Berg : Cleves : anecdote of Flink : a tedious form : anecdote of brown ...
... beautiful lines : anecdotes of distin- guished persons born at Utrecht ; the ancient inhabitants : a direction : the city of Arnheim : anecdote of Beck : Dutchy of Berg : Cleves : anecdote of Flink : a tedious form : anecdote of brown ...
Pagina xiv
... Beautiful village of Offenbach : bravery of the Hessians : anec- dotes of Mareschal Augerau . Excursion to Darmstadt : minute posts : Darmstadt : law's delay in Germany : agreeable manners of the Germans : national antipathies . Return ...
... Beautiful village of Offenbach : bravery of the Hessians : anec- dotes of Mareschal Augerau . Excursion to Darmstadt : minute posts : Darmstadt : law's delay in Germany : agreeable manners of the Germans : national antipathies . Return ...
Pagina 10
... beautiful avenue of trees , running parallel with the river opposite to the ferry . Our landlord was very civil , and all his servants spoke French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes : I after ...
... beautiful avenue of trees , running parallel with the river opposite to the ferry . Our landlord was very civil , and all his servants spoke French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes : I after ...
Pagina 11
... beautiful streets adorned , as is the case through- out Holland , with noble rows of trees , is a spectacle at once novel and beautiful . The trees act as a fan to the houses in hot weather , and their leaves are said to inhale whatever ...
... beautiful streets adorned , as is the case through- out Holland , with noble rows of trees , is a spectacle at once novel and beautiful . The trees act as a fan to the houses in hot weather , and their leaves are said to inhale whatever ...
Pagina 12
... beautiful stately trees and lofty leaning houses appear mingled together , and at one view he sees before him the characteristic features of the country , the city , and the sea . CHAPTER II . THE BOOMPIES .... BAYLE .... PREROGATIVES ...
... beautiful stately trees and lofty leaning houses appear mingled together , and at one view he sees before him the characteristic features of the country , the city , and the sea . CHAPTER II . THE BOOMPIES .... BAYLE .... PREROGATIVES ...
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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 |
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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 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 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 69 - 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 231 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
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.
Pagina 273 - 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 216 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Pagina 278 - 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 259 - 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.