A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804R. Phillips, 1805 - 480 Seiten |
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... handsome letters of private introduction , which were swelled by the kindness of Mr. Grill , the Swedish consul , and a passport ( indispensably necessary to the visitor of Sweden ) from the baron Silverhjelm , the enlightened and ...
... handsome letters of private introduction , which were swelled by the kindness of Mr. Grill , the Swedish consul , and a passport ( indispensably necessary to the visitor of Sweden ) from the baron Silverhjelm , the enlightened and ...
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... handsome fortified town , containing about nine hun- dred inhabitants , and determined , as the wind was fair , to cross the Great Belt that night . We were there obliged to shew our passports ; the captain of the passage - boat , on ...
... handsome fortified town , containing about nine hun- dred inhabitants , and determined , as the wind was fair , to cross the Great Belt that night . We were there obliged to shew our passports ; the captain of the passage - boat , on ...
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... handsome obelisk , and enu- merate the miles and half miles , and bear the names of Christian and sometimes of Fred . V. In our route we saw several storks , who shewed no other symptoms of alarm when we approached them , than awkwardly ...
... handsome obelisk , and enu- merate the miles and half miles , and bear the names of Christian and sometimes of Fred . V. In our route we saw several storks , who shewed no other symptoms of alarm when we approached them , than awkwardly ...
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... handsome ; the houses , of which there are about four thousand , exclusive of the quarter belonging to the sailors , and garrisons for three regiments , are generally of brick stuccoed to resemble stone , and some are of freestone , and ...
... handsome ; the houses , of which there are about four thousand , exclusive of the quarter belonging to the sailors , and garrisons for three regiments , are generally of brick stuccoed to resemble stone , and some are of freestone , and ...
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... The Exchange is a large ancient building of brick : within are little shops , very much resembling Exeter - Change , in London , but more commodious and handsome . At the entrance nearest to the burnt A NORTHERN SUMMER . 35.
... The Exchange is a large ancient building of brick : within are little shops , very much resembling Exeter - Change , in London , but more commodious and handsome . At the entrance nearest to the burnt A NORTHERN SUMMER . 35.
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admirable adorned amongst appearance attended beautiful beheld brick building carriage Catherine Catherine II celebrated Charles XII church colour copecs Copenhagen Courland court covered crown Danish delight Denmark dinner displayed dress ducat elegant emperor England English miles Englishman favour favourite feet formed French frequently gardens German graceful grand granite groschen ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome Holstein honour horses hundred Husum imperial king knout lady late empress look magnificent majesty Mittau Neva never night noble o'clock observed officers painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg post-house presented prince proceeded Queen raised resembling respectable river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene shew ships side Slesvig sovereign Stockholm stone streets Strelna stuccoed summer gardens Sweden Swedish taste theatre thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst young
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Seite 114 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased.
Seite 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Seite 24 - 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.
Seite 24 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Seite 299 - 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...
Seite 39 - 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.
Seite 14 - Peesel, be quiet ; it is very late, i' faith : I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. Pist. These be good humors, indeed ! Shall pack-horses, And hollow, pampered jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty miles a day...
Seite 272 - 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.
Seite 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Seite 15 - To him indifferent 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 charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all.