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 iii
... distinguished Patriots from whom you derived it , my pride could not fail of being eminently gratified by being permitted to dedicate to you the following pages : but other , and infinitely more impressive and honourable emotions are ...
... distinguished Patriots from whom you derived it , my pride could not fail of being eminently gratified by being permitted to dedicate to you the following pages : but other , and infinitely more impressive and honourable emotions are ...
Pagina x
... distinguished persons there : anecdote of Cowper : interposi- tion of Providence 30 CHAPTER V. Licensed brothels ; remark upon them : Dutch literary meeting described spitting pots : pipes , Dutch extravagant in them ; smoking ...
... distinguished persons there : anecdote of Cowper : interposi- tion of Providence 30 CHAPTER V. Licensed brothels ; remark upon them : Dutch literary meeting described spitting pots : pipes , Dutch extravagant in them ; smoking ...
Pagina xiii
... distinguished persons : present state of Cologne CHAPTER XXI . 221 Remarks on the French army : origin of the conscription : Ro- bespierre French soldiers : policy of the generals : military vanity : bulletins : mode of attack : Rhenish ...
... distinguished persons : present state of Cologne CHAPTER XXI . 221 Remarks on the French army : origin of the conscription : Ro- bespierre French soldiers : policy of the generals : military vanity : bulletins : mode of attack : Rhenish ...
Pagina 15
... distinguished for their integrity , as their industry and opulence . Soon after my arrival I had the pleasure of dining with one of the first families of that persuasion : our host , a very amiable man , gave us a true Dutch dinner ...
... distinguished for their integrity , as their industry and opulence . Soon after my arrival I had the pleasure of dining with one of the first families of that persuasion : our host , a very amiable man , gave us a true Dutch dinner ...
Pagina 24
... distinguished men , he mentions a custom then prevalent amongst the females of this country , the discontinuance of which , considering how much im- proved they are since the time of Erasmus , and how their natural charms are heightened ...
... distinguished men , he mentions a custom then prevalent amongst the females of this country , the discontinuance of which , considering how much im- proved they are since the time of Erasmus , and how their natural charms are heightened ...
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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 |
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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.