A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 |
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... 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 which it stands , and would ...
... 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 which it stands , and would ...
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... half - stifled prayer and benediction , I hastened to the capital , where , having furnish- ed myself with the necessary passports and letters of introduction to our embassadors from the minister of foreign affairs , a circular letter ...
... half - stifled prayer and benediction , I hastened to the capital , where , having furnish- ed myself with the necessary passports and letters of introduction to our embassadors from the minister of foreign affairs , a circular letter ...
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... half filled with hay , a cross seat or stool was fastened by straps to the sides , and the whole mounted upon four high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads , which are very deep ...
... half filled with hay , a cross seat or stool was fastened by straps to the sides , and the whole mounted upon four high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads , which are very deep ...
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... half in an hour , and beheld on each side of us nothing but a dreary waste . Had not the cheering beams of the sun refreshed and supported us all the way , we must have suffered pretty severely under the pressure of a distemper which ...
... half in an hour , and beheld on each side of us nothing but a dreary waste . Had not the cheering beams of the sun refreshed and supported us all the way , we must have suffered pretty severely under the pressure of a distemper which ...
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... half high from the floor , and very much resembles that of a blacksmith's forge ; the meat is baked , or , as they call it , roasted , in a sort of cheese - toaster , and having undergone the previous operation of three parts boiling ...
... half high from the floor , and very much resembles that of a blacksmith's forge ; the meat is baked , or , as they call it , roasted , in a sort of cheese - toaster , and having undergone the previous operation of three parts boiling ...
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Page 104 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 76 - 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...
Page 44 - ... 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.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 59 - 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.
Page 81 - Do not strike him into that most dreadful of all human conditions, the orphanage that springs not from the grave, that falls not from the hand of Providence or the stroke of death ; but comes before its time, anticipated and inflicted by the remorseless cruelty of parental guilt.
Page 165 - 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.
Page 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil ! lago.
Page 58 - Bernstoff, in gratitude for their liberation : 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. COWPER. Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of judicature : it was a handsome large room, in a range of buildings in which the governor of the city resides : the throne was in front ; twelve judges presided attired in rich costume ; there were only two advocates present, who wore embroidered capes and blue silk gowns.
Page 301 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.