A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804Lincoln and Gleason, 1806 - 330 من الصفحات |
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... firmness of an architect . King and lovely Queen of Prussia . An- ecdotes . Female travelling habit . The duchy of Meckleburg Swerin . Return to England P. 321 THE AGREEMENT . THE ground which my pen is about CONTENTS .
... firmness of an architect . King and lovely Queen of Prussia . An- ecdotes . Female travelling habit . The duchy of Meckleburg Swerin . Return to England P. 321 THE AGREEMENT . THE ground which my pen is about CONTENTS .
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... king and queen of Denmark , who looked very smirkingly upon each other . I must not omit to introduce the reader to the kitchen , in which , in Denmark as well as in Germany , the fire- place is raised about two feet and a half high ...
... king and queen of Denmark , who looked very smirkingly upon each other . I must not omit to introduce the reader to the kitchen , in which , in Denmark as well as in Germany , the fire- place is raised about two feet and a half high ...
الصفحة 28
... king- dom so composed of islands . The province which we had just left notwithstanding the desolate appearance of some parts of it from the main road , is , on account of the independent spirit of its peasantry , the most valuable of ...
... king- dom so composed of islands . The province which we had just left notwithstanding the desolate appearance of some parts of it from the main road , is , on account of the independent spirit of its peasantry , the most valuable of ...
الصفحة 34
... king of England and Denmark . The inside of this building owes its gran- deur to its size : the ceiling is stained with little sprigs of flowers in a vile taste , and are wholly unenriched by those exquisite interlacings in the roof ...
... king of England and Denmark . The inside of this building owes its gran- deur to its size : the ceiling is stained with little sprigs of flowers in a vile taste , and are wholly unenriched by those exquisite interlacings in the roof ...
الصفحة 35
... kings lying by those who deposed them ; " when I consider rival wits , placed side by side ; or the holy " men that ... king's country palaces , about two English miles from Copenha- gen ; the appearance of much bustle , and lounging ...
... kings lying by those who deposed them ; " when I consider rival wits , placed side by side ; or the holy " men that ... king's country palaces , about two English miles from Copenha- gen ; the appearance of much bustle , and lounging ...
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admirable adorned amongst appearance attended beautiful beheld brick building carriage Catherine Catherine II celebrated Charles XII church color copecs Courland court covered crown Danish decorated delight Denmark dinner displayed dress ducat elegant Emperor Empress dowager England English miles favorite feet formed French frequently gardens Gatchina graceful grand groschen ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome honor horses hundred Husum Imperial King knout lady late Empress Livonia look magnificent ment Mittau Neva never night noble observed officer painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg post-house presented Prince proceeded Queen raised river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene sent servant ship side singular Slesvig soldier sovereign Stockholm stone streets Strelna stuccoed Sweden Swedish taste thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst young
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الصفحة 51 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
الصفحة 35 - 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.
الصفحة 324 - 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...
الصفحة 52 - 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.
الصفحة 294 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd 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.
الصفحة 100 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
الصفحة 221 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
الصفحة 26 - And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. I He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent 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 charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
الصفحة 70 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
الصفحة 171 - 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.