A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 oldal |
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... frequently did duty with no other covering than a tattered blanket , and the fragment of a pair of breeches , which time and service had reduced by instal . ments to little more than a few shreds : yet they did not repine . In a milder ...
... frequently did duty with no other covering than a tattered blanket , and the fragment of a pair of breeches , which time and service had reduced by instal . ments to little more than a few shreds : yet they did not repine . In a milder ...
10. oldal
... frequently known by names corresponding with those which are applied to the country resi- dences of the superior families in England . In the morning our luggage was inspected by the proper officers , who gave us very little trouble ...
... frequently known by names corresponding with those which are applied to the country resi- dences of the superior families in England . In the morning our luggage was inspected by the proper officers , who gave us very little trouble ...
14. oldal
... frequently disgracing his writings by citing such names as no learned man ever mentioned . " So speaks Saurin of this able man , whose abilities , however , have been ho- noured with the usual homage ; they have been allowed to conse ...
... frequently disgracing his writings by citing such names as no learned man ever mentioned . " So speaks Saurin of this able man , whose abilities , however , have been ho- noured with the usual homage ; they have been allowed to conse ...
15. oldal
... frequently beset by these sons and daughters of sorrow or idleness , who preferred their peti- tion with indefatigable pursuit , but in so gentle a tone , that it was evident they were fearful of the police . They are abundant , but or ...
... frequently beset by these sons and daughters of sorrow or idleness , who preferred their peti- tion with indefatigable pursuit , but in so gentle a tone , that it was evident they were fearful of the police . They are abundant , but or ...
31. oldal
... frequently bent , without breaking . Upon almost every part of the continent this coin bears a premium , and is current throughout Europe . A double ducat is ten guilders ten stivers . Rider TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 31.
... frequently bent , without breaking . Upon almost every part of the continent this coin bears a premium , and is current throughout Europe . A double ducat is ten guilders ten stivers . Rider TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 31.
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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38. oldal - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate: and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind; And call him noble, that was now your hate, Him vile, that was your garland.
214. oldal - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
229. oldal - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
271. oldal - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
60. oldal - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
6. oldal - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
7. oldal - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
116. oldal - 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.
276. oldal - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
46. oldal - ... 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.