A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804Lincoln and Gleason, 1806 - 330 páginas |
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... lady on her accu- rate knowledge of the English language , she said , “ We " are obliged to learn that , and French and German , in our own defence , otherwise we should frequently be ob- liged to sit mute , which you know is a very ...
... lady on her accu- rate knowledge of the English language , she said , “ We " are obliged to learn that , and French and German , in our own defence , otherwise we should frequently be ob- liged to sit mute , which you know is a very ...
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... lady put to one of the librarians of the British museum , " Pray sir , have'nt you a skull of Oli- ver Cromwell here ? " " No , madam , " replied the man of learning and antiquity ; " Deare me , " said she , " I wonder at that , for ...
... lady put to one of the librarians of the British museum , " Pray sir , have'nt you a skull of Oli- ver Cromwell here ? " " No , madam , " replied the man of learning and antiquity ; " Deare me , " said she , " I wonder at that , for ...
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... lady flying to him in tears to tell him that her canary bird had escaped from its cage , ordered the drawbridges of the town to be raised to prevent the elopement of the little fugitive . The gates are shut in summer at twelve , and in ...
... lady flying to him in tears to tell him that her canary bird had escaped from its cage , ordered the drawbridges of the town to be raised to prevent the elopement of the little fugitive . The gates are shut in summer at twelve , and in ...
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... lady under his arm , to cof- fee in the drawing - room . Nothing else like formality occurred in the course of the day . Just as we were quitting this spot of cordial hospital- ity , we were stopped by the appearance of two fine fe ...
... lady under his arm , to cof- fee in the drawing - room . Nothing else like formality occurred in the course of the day . Just as we were quitting this spot of cordial hospital- ity , we were stopped by the appearance of two fine fe ...
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... lady never looks behind her , nor does she ever welcome the approach or cheer the departure of a visitor by permitting him to touch the cherry of her lips ; the ardent admirer of beauty must be content to see that Welcome ever smiles ...
... lady never looks behind her , nor does she ever welcome the approach or cheer the departure of a visitor by permitting him to touch the cherry of her lips ; the ardent admirer of beauty must be content to see that Welcome ever smiles ...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
A northern summer: or travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
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admirable adorned amongst appearance attended beautiful beheld brick building carriage Catherine Catherine II celebrated Charles XII church color copecs Courland court covered crown Danish decorated delight Denmark dinner displayed dress ducat elegant Emperor Empress dowager England English miles favorite feet formed French frequently gardens Gatchina graceful grand groschen ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome honor horses hundred Husum Imperial King knout lady late Empress Livonia look magnificent ment Mittau Neva never night noble observed officer painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg post-house presented Prince proceeded Queen raised river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene sent servant ship side singular Slesvig soldier sovereign Stockholm stone streets Strelna stuccoed Sweden Swedish taste thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst young
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Página 51 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 35 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them when I consider rival wits placed side by side or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions factions* and debates of mankind.
Página 324 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
Página 52 - The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
Página 294 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 100 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 221 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 26 - And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. I He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and .marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Página 70 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
Página 171 - Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.