A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 |
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... preserved entire amidst the general wreck of other nations . The king of Holland was described to me to resemble his brother Napoleon , very strongly in size , complexion , manner , thoughtful taciturnity , and abstemiousness : he is a ...
... preserved entire amidst the general wreck of other nations . The king of Holland was described to me to resemble his brother Napoleon , very strongly in size , complexion , manner , thoughtful taciturnity , and abstemiousness : he is a ...
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... much sought after , and preserved as great curiosities ; and yet , though now so highly prized , they fell into so much disrepute , that not many years since , a large collection of his best pictures TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 37.
... much sought after , and preserved as great curiosities ; and yet , though now so highly prized , they fell into so much disrepute , that not many years since , a large collection of his best pictures TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 37.
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... preserve their constitutions , as paint is to protect the exterior of their houses from the effects of their moist climate , but that the vapour invi- gorates the mind , which mounted like an aerial spirit upon a cloud , pours forth ...
... preserve their constitutions , as paint is to protect the exterior of their houses from the effects of their moist climate , but that the vapour invi- gorates the mind , which mounted like an aerial spirit upon a cloud , pours forth ...
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... preserve an easy intercourse between the most distant parts of the kingdom , and the cheapness of their con- veyance places them within the reach of the most slender purse . Every thing relative to these vessels is conducted with such ...
... preserve an easy intercourse between the most distant parts of the kingdom , and the cheapness of their con- veyance places them within the reach of the most slender purse . Every thing relative to these vessels is conducted with such ...
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... preservation of the country . The history of the repub- lic for 147 years , namely , from its first entering the field of battle in 1566 to the peace of Utrecht in 1713 , is a tissue of battles lost and won . The twelve years ' truce ...
... preservation of the country . The history of the repub- lic for 147 years , namely , from its first entering the field of battle in 1566 to the peace of Utrecht in 1713 , is a tissue of battles lost and won . The twelve years ' truce ...
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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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Page 38 - 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.
Page 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Page 271 - 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...
Page 60 - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
Page 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
Page 7 - 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.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 276 - 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...
Page 46 - ... 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.