Travels of Carl Philipp Moritz in England in 1782H. Milford, 1924 - 239 páginas |
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admiration Anton Reiser appearance arrived asked astonishment beautiful benches Berlin boys called Castleton Cavern certainly charming church Clerk coach companion D. G. HOGARTH dark delightful Derbyshire distance door dress E. V. LUCAS edition England English Englishmen fancy foot foreign gallery German German literature Goethe green heard hill Introduction journey Katterfelto landlady least length lived lodging London look manner Matlock Maud meadows miles Moritz morning nature Nettlebed night notwithstanding obliged once Oxford Parliament passed Paul's Peak Cavern perhaps persons pleasing post chaise prospect road rock round seats seemed seen shew shillings side sight soon speak Speaker steep streets summit Thames thing thought Tideswell tion tired told took town translation travelling vale Vauxhall Vicar of Wakefield village walk Wendeborn Westminster whilst whole Windsor wish wonder
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Página 204 - They pluck'd the seated hills with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops Uplifting bore them in their hands. Amaze, Be sure, and terror seized the rebel host, When coming towards them so dread they saw The bottom of the mountains upward turn'd ; Till on those cursed engines...
Página 203 - From their foundations loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills, with all their load, Rocks, waters, woods, and by the shaggy tops...
Página 59 - I think there are more ayes than noes; or more noes than ayes. The ayes have it ; or the noes have it ;
Página 56 - It is impossible for me to describe, with what fire, and persuasive eloquence he spoke, and how the speaker in the chair incessantly nodded approbation from beneath his solemn wig ; and innumerable voices incessantly called out, Hear him ! hear him...
Página 213 - I was almost asleep among the trunks and the packages; but how was the case altered when we came to go down hill, then all the trunks and parcels began, as it were, to dance around me, and every thing in the basket seemed to be alive; and I every moment received from them such violent blows, that I thought my last hour was come. ... I...
Página 149 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Página 57 - But upon the whole, he is not an ill made nor an ill looking man : and there are many strong marks of sagacity and fire in his eyes. I have frequently heard the people here say, that this same Mr. Fox is as cunning as a Fox. Burke is a well-made, tall, upright man, but looks elderly and broken.
Página 52 - I should have given the well-dressed man half-a-crown, or a couple of shillings, for a bottle of wine. Happy in this information I went again the next day, when the same man. who before had sent me away, after I had given him only two shillings, very politely opened the door for me, and himself recommended me to a good seat in the gallery.
Página 110 - A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
Página 102 - Persons to whom it is not convenient to pay a full price, instead of the inside, sit on the top of the coach, without any seats or even a rail. By what means passengers thus fasten themselves securely on the roof of these vehicles, I know not...