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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... death of the Queen Matilda CHAPTER VI . Cross the Sound . Sweden . Cinderella's Mice . Rapid Travelling . Strange question . Roof - grazing . Misled by the light . A discovery . A cau- tion . A French hotel 53 82 102 CHAPTER VII ...
... death of the Queen Matilda CHAPTER VI . Cross the Sound . Sweden . Cinderella's Mice . Rapid Travelling . Strange question . Roof - grazing . Misled by the light . A discovery . A cau- tion . A French hotel 53 82 102 CHAPTER VII ...
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... death generally stains half the town black ; and where Nature has so united the charms of enlightened society , to those of romantic scenery , that had a certain wit but tasted of the former , he would have spared the whole county in ...
... death generally stains half the town black ; and where Nature has so united the charms of enlightened society , to those of romantic scenery , that had a certain wit but tasted of the former , he would have spared the whole county in ...
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... death in some pious pun or holy conundrum ; a perversion which well merits the interposition of the ecclesiastical officer whose power extends over these regions of the dead . I had not wandered far , before a fresh plain slab attracted ...
... death in some pious pun or holy conundrum ; a perversion which well merits the interposition of the ecclesiastical officer whose power extends over these regions of the dead . I had not wandered far , before a fresh plain slab attracted ...
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... death the hand he oft had kiss'd . And here , remov'd from love's lamenting eye , Far from thy native cat'racts ' awful sound ; Far from thy dusky forests ' pensive sigh , Thy poor remains repose on alien ground . Yet Pity oft shall sit ...
... death the hand he oft had kiss'd . And here , remov'd from love's lamenting eye , Far from thy native cat'racts ' awful sound ; Far from thy dusky forests ' pensive sigh , Thy poor remains repose on alien ground . Yet Pity oft shall sit ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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A northern summer: or travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
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admirable amongst appearance beautiful beheld building carriage Catherine Catherine II Charles XII church colour copecs Copenhagen Count court covered crown Danes Danish delight Denmark dinner displayed dress Dronningaard elegant Emperor Empress England English miles Englishman expence favourite feet Finland formed French frequently gardens genius graceful grand granite gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III Gustavus Vasa hand handsome heaven honour horses hundred Imperial Juliana King knout lady look Lord Nelson magnificent Majesty manner mind Mount Moses Neva never noble observed officer painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg presented Prince Queen QUEEN MATILDA raised road rock round royal rubles Russian scene seat ship side silver singular Slesvig sovereign spot statue Stockholm streets Struensee Summer Gardens Sweden Swedish Swedish language sweet taste thousand throne tion tomb town traveller vast versts visited whilst wood wretched young
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Página 183 - 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...
Página 216 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
Página 38 - ... 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. 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 90 - And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Página 469 - 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 63 - 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 38 - 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 243 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower 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.
Página 424 - 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 64 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.