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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... river : anecdote of Napoleon ; of a Dutch woman : a disaster : Rotterdam described : leaning houses CHAPTER II . The boompies : Bayle : prerogatives of genius : Spanish inscrip- tions : a Dutch dinner : Dutch beggars : a good bargain ...
... river : anecdote of Napoleon ; of a Dutch woman : a disaster : Rotterdam described : leaning houses CHAPTER II . The boompies : Bayle : prerogatives of genius : Spanish inscrip- tions : a Dutch dinner : Dutch beggars : a good bargain ...
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... RIVER .... ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON .... OF A DUTCH WOMAN .... A DISASTER .... ROTTERDAM DESCRIBED .... LEANING HOUSES . THE public shall be my confessor . - In the summer of last year , whilst the larger portion of the civilized world was ...
... RIVER .... ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON .... OF A DUTCH WOMAN .... A DISASTER .... ROTTERDAM DESCRIBED .... LEANING HOUSES . THE public shall be my confessor . - In the summer of last year , whilst the larger portion of the civilized world was ...
Pagina 6
... river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pee- vishly describes : * " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon them break , " And drowns a ...
... river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pee- vishly describes : * " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon them break , " And drowns a ...
Pagina 8
... river , a noble branch of the Maas , the breadth of which is about a mile , lessening but in a little degree as it reaches Rotterdam . The water of this river is rather foul , its shores are beautifully lined with villages , farm houses ...
... river , a noble branch of the Maas , the breadth of which is about a mile , lessening but in a little degree as it reaches Rotterdam . The water of this river is rather foul , its shores are beautifully lined with villages , farm houses ...
Pagina 9
... river , who thinking that we were molesting some of her bonnet boxes , in the unguarded violence of her approach , slipped into one of the holds , the boards of which had been inadvertently left open by the Swiss bridegroom before ...
... river , who thinking that we were molesting some of her bonnet boxes , in the unguarded violence of her approach , slipped into one of the holds , the boards of which had been inadvertently left open by the Swiss bridegroom before ...
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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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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.