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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... stands , and would not have answered , when requested to declare his opinion of the good people of Devon , that the further he travelled westward , the more persuaded he was that the wise men came from the east . The angry decrees of ...
... stands , and would not have answered , when requested to declare his opinion of the good people of Devon , that the further he travelled westward , the more persuaded he was that the wise men came from the east . The angry decrees of ...
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... stand erect , had he contemplated the heavy solemnity of the performers . The females looked like so many tubs turning round , and their gallant partners never moved their pipes from their mouths . Upon quitting this scene of phlegmatic ...
... stand erect , had he contemplated the heavy solemnity of the performers . The females looked like so many tubs turning round , and their gallant partners never moved their pipes from their mouths . Upon quitting this scene of phlegmatic ...
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... stands , the city , crowned by its palace in ruins , the Sound , and the surrounding country , presented a delightful prospect . The road was crowded with people in their Sunday dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in ...
... stands , the city , crowned by its palace in ruins , the Sound , and the surrounding country , presented a delightful prospect . The road was crowded with people in their Sunday dresses and merry faces , hurrying to pass the evening in ...
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... stands in an island , formed by a canal , and has several gates ; the principal entrance is of wrought iron , and has a noble , effect : the front has twenty - five enormous windows in a line , and is composed of six stories , three of ...
... stands in an island , formed by a canal , and has several gates ; the principal entrance is of wrought iron , and has a noble , effect : the front has twenty - five enormous windows in a line , and is composed of six stories , three of ...
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... stands upon an eminence ; the gardens slope from its terrace ; they are confined , but tastefully arranged : the Crown Prince shares the delight they afford in common with the meanest of his sub- jects . As the King resided at this time ...
... stands upon an eminence ; the gardens slope from its terrace ; they are confined , but tastefully arranged : the Crown Prince shares the delight they afford in common with the meanest of his sub- jects . As the King resided at this time ...
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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.