A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804R. Phillips, 1805 - 480 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 26
... give one thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; and as there may be many more who may find the rocking of the ocean somewhat unfriendly to the regularity of appetite ; let me advise them to lay in some anchovies ...
... give one thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; and as there may be many more who may find the rocking of the ocean somewhat unfriendly to the regularity of appetite ; let me advise them to lay in some anchovies ...
الصفحة 27
... give her a saucy answer . " 66 On the third day , a very singular object presented itself ; it was Helogoland , a vast lofty perpendicular rock rising out of the ocean , and distant about forty - five miles from the nearest shore : it ...
... give her a saucy answer . " 66 On the third day , a very singular object presented itself ; it was Helogoland , a vast lofty perpendicular rock rising out of the ocean , and distant about forty - five miles from the nearest shore : it ...
الصفحة 39
... of his council of war , marched over it to give battle to the Danes . During this tremendous passage , a part of the ice gave way , and a whole squa- dron of the guards were immolated , not one of A NORTHERN SUMMER . 19.
... of his council of war , marched over it to give battle to the Danes . During this tremendous passage , a part of the ice gave way , and a whole squa- dron of the guards were immolated , not one of A NORTHERN SUMMER . 19.
الصفحة 55
... give signals in case of fire breaking out , of which the Danes have a great dread ; for no people have suffered more from its destruc- tive visitation . A precautionary warning to the inhabitants to take care of their fires and candles ...
... give signals in case of fire breaking out , of which the Danes have a great dread ; for no people have suffered more from its destruc- tive visitation . A precautionary warning to the inhabitants to take care of their fires and candles ...
الصفحة 58
... gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . COWPER . Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of judica- ture : it was a handsome large room , in a range of buildings , in which the ...
... gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it . COWPER . Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of judica- ture : it was a handsome large room , in a range of buildings , in which the ...
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الصفحة 104 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
الصفحة 76 - And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
الصفحة 44 - ... 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. 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.
الصفحة 134 - 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.
الصفحة 59 - 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 81 - Do not strike him into that most dreadful of all human conditions, the orphanage that springs not from the grave, that falls not from the hand of Providence or the stroke of death ; but comes before its time, anticipated and inflicted by the remorseless cruelty of parental guilt.
الصفحة 165 - 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.
الصفحة 256 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil ! lago.
الصفحة 58 - Bernstoff, in gratitude for their liberation : 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. COWPER. Curiosity led me one day into the principal court of judicature : it was a handsome large room, in a range of buildings in which the governor of the city resides : the throne was in front ; twelve judges presided attired in rich costume ; there were only two advocates present, who wore embroidered capes and blue silk gowns.
الصفحة 301 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.