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... called for sagacity and energy of no ordinary nature . Instead of listening , in the sunshine of vice - regal magnificence , to the vague reports of the idle , the ignorant , or the mischievous , you penetrated into the wild re- cesses ...
... called for sagacity and energy of no ordinary nature . Instead of listening , in the sunshine of vice - regal magnificence , to the vague reports of the idle , the ignorant , or the mischievous , you penetrated into the wild re- cesses ...
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... called the House in the Wood : anecdote of King William the Third : unostentatious habits of the Orange family : charming jaunt to Scheveling : a marine hotel : Mr. Fox CHAPTER X. Historical anecdote of Scheveling : anecdote of Lord ...
... called the House in the Wood : anecdote of King William the Third : unostentatious habits of the Orange family : charming jaunt to Scheveling : a marine hotel : Mr. Fox CHAPTER X. Historical anecdote of Scheveling : anecdote of Lord ...
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... called , and which has also met with its due proportion of chastisement , I trust I shall receive absolution from my reader ; and in that hope I shall now proceed to my narrative . I intended to have availed myself , as I wish I had ...
... called , and which has also met with its due proportion of chastisement , I trust I shall receive absolution from my reader ; and in that hope I shall now proceed to my narrative . I intended to have availed myself , as I wish I had ...
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... called De Nieuwe Hoofds Poort , a structure infinitely more elegant than another barrier of this city , called De Oude Hoofds Poort , is very handsome . The immediate transition from the tranquillity of the country to the busy hum of ...
... called De Nieuwe Hoofds Poort , a structure infinitely more elegant than another barrier of this city , called De Oude Hoofds Poort , is very handsome . The immediate transition from the tranquillity of the country to the busy hum of ...
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... called Napoleon after the emperor . Should the dynasty of the Bonapartes experience no convulsive overthrow , it is generally believed that , upon the demise of that extraordinary being , who has pushed so many kings F 34 DUTY OF A ...
... called Napoleon after the emperor . Should the dynasty of the Bonapartes experience no convulsive overthrow , it is generally believed that , upon the demise of that extraordinary being , who has pushed so many kings F 34 DUTY OF A ...
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admirable afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam ANECDOTE antient appearance arms artist bank Batavian republic beautiful Berghem boat building called canals carriage celebrated chamber church colouring consequence CONSTITUTION council Delft displayed Douw Duke Dutch elegant Emperor England English expence exquisite florins formed France French frequently gardens grand grand pensionary Guelderland guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honor hour house of Orange illustrious inhabitants Jan Steen John of Leyden king laws Leyden Maas magnificent majesty manner master ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers opulent painted painter palace passed persons picture present Prince of Orange principal prisoners province racter received Rembrandt resided Rhine river Rotterdam royal scarcely scenery Scheveling side spirit STADT-HOUSE Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion town traveller treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast visited whilst wood
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Página 185 - 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.
Página 326 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye! I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Página 343 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.
Página 367 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 110 - 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.
Página 75 - ... 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.
Página 3 - In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both I oft found both : I urge this childhood proof, Because what follows is pure innocence.
Página 247 - Why, this. Will lug your priests and servants from your sides, Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads : This yellow slave Will knit and break religions ; bless the accursed ; Make the hoar leprosy adored ; place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench...
Página 403 - 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.
Página 10 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...