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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... does in upon them break , " And drowns a province , does but spring a leak ; " That always ply the pump , and never think " They can be safe , but at the rate they stink ; " That live as if they had been run aground 6 TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND .
... does in upon them break , " And drowns a province , does but spring a leak ; " That always ply the pump , and never think " They can be safe , but at the rate they stink ; " That live as if they had been run aground 6 TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND .
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... Provinces . As the French advanced , the principal English families fled with great precipitation , and were followed by many of the Dutch : their flight was in the most inclement part of a winter remarkably rigorous , and they were ...
... Provinces . As the French advanced , the principal English families fled with great precipitation , and were followed by many of the Dutch : their flight was in the most inclement part of a winter remarkably rigorous , and they were ...
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... province and the presbytery of the town used to assemble in it ; I was informed they still continue to do so ; and at the fairs , booths are erected in it . The only monuments worthy of attention , and those merit but little , are ...
... province and the presbytery of the town used to assemble in it ; I was informed they still continue to do so ; and at the fairs , booths are erected in it . The only monuments worthy of attention , and those merit but little , are ...
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... provinces . I would recommend the traveller to carry with him a sufficient number of guineas for his return to England , as they are scarce and very dear ; for twelve guineas I paid an exchange of 35-4 agio 104 on 145 , or 13l . 4s . 6d ...
... provinces . I would recommend the traveller to carry with him a sufficient number of guineas for his return to England , as they are scarce and very dear ; for twelve guineas I paid an exchange of 35-4 agio 104 on 145 , or 13l . 4s . 6d ...
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... provincial idioms ; for instance , a raw native of Friezeland would not be un- derstood at Amsterdam . Of the Dutch language our immortal lexicographer , Johnson , says , " Our knowledge of the northern literature is so scanty , that of ...
... provincial idioms ; for instance , a raw native of Friezeland would not be un- derstood at Amsterdam . Of the Dutch language our immortal lexicographer , Johnson , says , " Our knowledge of the northern literature is so scanty , that of ...
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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 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 69 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Page 231 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
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.
Page 273 - 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 216 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 278 - 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 259 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.