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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... seen their beloved Crown Prince in such finery : it was the equipage of a foreign quack doctor , who had had the good fortune to live and flourish in England in an age of pills . Copenhagen is a small but very neat city ; its ...
... seen their beloved Crown Prince in such finery : it was the equipage of a foreign quack doctor , who had had the good fortune to live and flourish in England in an age of pills . Copenhagen is a small but very neat city ; its ...
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... seen through a magnifying glass ; it is attributed to Albert Durer ; a carriage with six horses , of an inconceivable smallness ; a great jug of ivory , with a triumph of Bacchus of a very fine workmanship , by Jacob Hollander , a ...
... seen through a magnifying glass ; it is attributed to Albert Durer ; a carriage with six horses , of an inconceivable smallness ; a great jug of ivory , with a triumph of Bacchus of a very fine workmanship , by Jacob Hollander , a ...
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... masks , and are never seen but by those who are necessary to their comfort , and their names are never required . This is a noble institution , and is said to have produced a very visible diminution in A NORTHERN SUMMER . 47.
... masks , and are never seen but by those who are necessary to their comfort , and their names are never required . This is a noble institution , and is said to have produced a very visible diminution in A NORTHERN SUMMER . 47.
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... seen without a pipe in their mouths ! We told him that it was very true they had frequently pipes in their mouths , and very sweet ones too , but that they never smoked ; nay , so much did they abhor it , that they regarded the man with ...
... seen without a pipe in their mouths ! We told him that it was very true they had frequently pipes in their mouths , and very sweet ones too , but that they never smoked ; nay , so much did they abhor it , that they regarded the man with ...
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... seen than the money of the country , the currency of which is penally protected : I must except , however , Dutch ducats , which pass all over Europe , and are very seldom below par . There is here a plentiful lack of gold and silver ...
... seen than the money of the country , the currency of which is penally protected : I must except , however , Dutch ducats , which pass all over Europe , and are very seldom below par . There is here a plentiful lack of gold and silver ...
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Page 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.
Page 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 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.