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
... known : the director of the bureau des diligences par eau : singular adventure : a scrape : a stratagem : passage to Bonn : a discovery : excellent effect of brandy : the city of Bonn : the Mall : effect of black : pre- sent state of ...
... known : the director of the bureau des diligences par eau : singular adventure : a scrape : a stratagem : passage to Bonn : a discovery : excellent effect of brandy : the city of Bonn : the Mall : effect of black : pre- sent state of ...
Pagina 3
... known . That during his exile he had seen many countries , " of which none pleased him so much as the Flemings , who were " the most honest and true - hearted people he had ever met with ; " and added very prophetically to me , to whom ...
... known . That during his exile he had seen many countries , " of which none pleased him so much as the Flemings , who were " the most honest and true - hearted people he had ever met with ; " and added very prophetically to me , to whom ...
Pagina 8
... known , that we all came from Varel , a little neutral town to the eastward of the Weser , a fast sailing fishing boat was provided to take us up to Rotterdam , a distance of twenty - five miles , at half a guinea a head . Gladly we ...
... known , that we all came from Varel , a little neutral town to the eastward of the Weser , a fast sailing fishing boat was provided to take us up to Rotterdam , a distance of twenty - five miles , at half a guinea a head . Gladly we ...
Pagina 10
... known by names corresponding with those which are applied to the country resi- dences of the superior families in England . In the morning our luggage was inspected by the proper officers , who gave us very little trouble , and were ...
... known by names corresponding with those which are applied to the country resi- dences of the superior families in England . In the morning our luggage was inspected by the proper officers , who gave us very little trouble , and were ...
Pagina 14
... known than for the elegance of his compositions , thus describes him : " Bayle was one of those extraordinary men , whom it is difficult to reconcile with themselves , and whose opposite qualities give us room to doubt whether we ought ...
... known than for the elegance of his compositions , thus describes him : " Bayle was one of those extraordinary men , whom it is difficult to reconcile with themselves , and whose opposite qualities give us room to doubt whether we ought ...
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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.