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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الصفحة vii
... Russia . Fredericksham . Russian coins P. 126 CHAPTER X. Rustic urbanity . Wretched village . No. 1. Wibourg . Greek religion . A charity sermon . Religion and extortion . A word or two to fortified towns . Starved horses . Volunteer ...
... Russia . Fredericksham . Russian coins P. 126 CHAPTER X. Rustic urbanity . Wretched village . No. 1. Wibourg . Greek religion . A charity sermon . Religion and extortion . A word or two to fortified towns . Starved horses . Volunteer ...
الصفحة viii
... Russians . The market . The knout . Cruelty of the Empress Elizabeth . Punishment of two lovely females CHAPTER XIII ... Russia . How customs vary . A panacea . ror's greatest favorite . Wild dogs . The Academy of Arts . p . 222 National ...
... Russians . The market . The knout . Cruelty of the Empress Elizabeth . Punishment of two lovely females CHAPTER XIII ... Russia . How customs vary . A panacea . ror's greatest favorite . Wild dogs . The Academy of Arts . p . 222 National ...
الصفحة ix
Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 Sir John ... Russian music . Its effect upon Italian ears and cows . on fire Forest p . 237 CHAPTER XVII . Court Clock . Winter ...
Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 Sir John ... Russian music . Its effect upon Italian ears and cows . on fire Forest p . 237 CHAPTER XVII . Court Clock . Winter ...
الصفحة 50
... Russia and Sweden led Denmark into the northern confederacy against the supremacy of the British flag , and Lord Nelson , whipped the latter for the presump- tion of all the parties to the said league . Denmark has reaped the fruits of ...
... Russia and Sweden led Denmark into the northern confederacy against the supremacy of the British flag , and Lord Nelson , whipped the latter for the presump- tion of all the parties to the said league . Denmark has reaped the fruits of ...
الصفحة 56
... Russia and Hol This depot is furnished with iron from land , and wood from Pomerania . each a thousand feet long . As I was enjoying , one fine afternoon , a row in that part of the harbor where the ar The rope - walks are n senal is ...
... Russia and Hol This depot is furnished with iron from land , and wood from Pomerania . each a thousand feet long . As I was enjoying , one fine afternoon , a row in that part of the harbor where the ar The rope - walks are n senal is ...
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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.