A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804R. Phillips, 1805 - 480 páginas |
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... both of literature and of life , much as I shall lament the separa- tion , it will be best , for both parties , that we should not wander together over another page . A NORTHERN SUMMER ; OR TRAVELS ROUND THE BALTIC . 2 THE AGREEMENT .
... both of literature and of life , much as I shall lament the separa- tion , it will be best , for both parties , that we should not wander together over another page . A NORTHERN SUMMER ; OR TRAVELS ROUND THE BALTIC . 2 THE AGREEMENT .
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... tion ; smiths thronged the yard to examine the springs , and wag- gon - builders to contemplate the wheels and body . The patent boxes of the former excited uncommon astonishment . At the corner of the yard , the last beams of the ...
... tion ; smiths thronged the yard to examine the springs , and wag- gon - builders to contemplate the wheels and body . The patent boxes of the former excited uncommon astonishment . At the corner of the yard , the last beams of the ...
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... tion in England . 3 Upon strolling into one of the church - yards , I remarked that their monuments were principally composed of a frame of an ob- long square , divided by cross pieces of wood painted black , and the spaces between ...
... tion in England . 3 Upon strolling into one of the church - yards , I remarked that their monuments were principally composed of a frame of an ob- long square , divided by cross pieces of wood painted black , and the spaces between ...
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... tion . Upon my complimenting a Danish lady on her accurate know- ledge 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 obliged to ...
... tion . Upon my complimenting a Danish lady on her accurate know- ledge 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 obliged to ...
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... tion indubitable , the Danes were firmly of opinion that the British commander intended to proceed either to Calscrona or Revel , and made no preparation for defence ; their ships were lying in ordinary ; they therefore trusted solely ...
... tion indubitable , the Danes were firmly of opinion that the British commander intended to proceed either to Calscrona or Revel , and made no preparation for defence ; their ships were lying in ordinary ; they therefore trusted solely ...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1806 |
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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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Página 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.
Página 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 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.