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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... presented the most graceful figures : it was such a scene as the chaste spirit of Vernet might have hovered over with delight . The next day , we saw the topmasts of our brave blockaders off the Texel ; it was painful to contemplate the ...
... presented the most graceful figures : it was such a scene as the chaste spirit of Vernet might have hovered over with delight . The next day , we saw the topmasts of our brave blockaders off the Texel ; it was painful to contemplate the ...
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... presented a scene of considera- ble gaiety . Boats put off from the little islands which ap pear on either side of the river , filled with hardy men , women and boys ; the ladies wore large black glazed paste- board bonnets , glittering ...
... presented a scene of considera- ble gaiety . Boats put off from the little islands which ap pear on either side of the river , filled with hardy men , women and boys ; the ladies wore large black glazed paste- board bonnets , glittering ...
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... presented such a projecting rotundity behind , that , to eyes which had been accustomed to gaze upon the symmetry of En- glish fair - ones , appeared truly grotesque , and awakened many a smile . The church , which is large and ancient ...
... presented such a projecting rotundity behind , that , to eyes which had been accustomed to gaze upon the symmetry of En- glish fair - ones , appeared truly grotesque , and awakened many a smile . The church , which is large and ancient ...
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... presented her guest with a large wine glass full , which he drank off , as if it had been so much cocoa milk , and immediately retired . The island of Zealand is said to be very luxuriant , and abounding with picturesque scenery ; its ...
... presented her guest with a large wine glass full , which he drank off , as if it had been so much cocoa milk , and immediately retired . The island of Zealand is said to be very luxuriant , and abounding with picturesque scenery ; its ...
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... presented a delightful prospect . The road was crowded with people in their Sunday dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in the gardens of Fredericksberg , which , with the permis sion of his majesty , is the favorite ...
... presented a delightful prospect . The road was crowded with people in their Sunday dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in the gardens of Fredericksberg , which , with the permis sion of his majesty , is the favorite ...
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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 |
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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.