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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... Short sketch of Gustavus III . Female stratagem . The palace . The state bed . The opera house . Assas- sination . Forgiveness . A hint not intended to offend CHAPTER VIII . A visit in the country . Observatory . Dinner and fashions ...
... Short sketch of Gustavus III . Female stratagem . The palace . The state bed . The opera house . Assas- sination . Forgiveness . A hint not intended to offend CHAPTER VIII . A visit in the country . Observatory . Dinner and fashions ...
الصفحة 50
... short , but sanguinary beyond example . In the midst of the slaughter the heroic Nelson dispatched a flag of truce on shore with a note to the Crown Prince , in which he expressed a wish that a stop should be put to the further effusion ...
... short , but sanguinary beyond example . In the midst of the slaughter the heroic Nelson dispatched a flag of truce on shore with a note to the Crown Prince , in which he expressed a wish that a stop should be put to the further effusion ...
الصفحة 56
... short and slender , his eyes are of a light blue , his nose aqui , line , his face singularly fair , and his hair almost white ; his mind is very capacious , cultivated , and active : his disposition is very amiable ; and in the ...
... short and slender , his eyes are of a light blue , his nose aqui , line , his face singularly fair , and his hair almost white ; his mind is very capacious , cultivated , and active : his disposition is very amiable ; and in the ...
الصفحة 57
... short a duration to pro- duce any other impression on the country than a temporary irri- tation , and the event of that day taught her the impolicy and danger of departing from a state of unequivocal neutrality ; at the same time it ...
... short a duration to pro- duce any other impression on the country than a temporary irri- tation , and the event of that day taught her the impolicy and danger of departing from a state of unequivocal neutrality ; at the same time it ...
الصفحة 59
... short time before we arrived , a woman had been found guilty of murder , and she was sentenced only to four years of solitary confinement . The Crown Prince is unwilling to see the sword of justice stained with human blood : he is ...
... short time before we arrived , a woman had been found guilty of murder , and she was sentenced only to four years of solitary confinement . The Crown Prince is unwilling to see the sword of justice stained with human blood : he is ...
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admirable adorned amongst appearance attended beautiful beheld brick building carriage Catherine Catherine II celebrated Charles XII church colour copecs Copenhagen Courland court covered crown Danish delight Denmark displayed dress ducat elegant emperor England English miles Englishman favour favourite feet formed Frederic frequently gardens graceful grand ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome Holstein honour horses hundred Husum imperial king knout lady late empress look Lord Nelson magnificent mind Mittau Neva never night noble observed officer painted palace passed peasants Petersburg post-house presented prince principal proceeded Queen raised resembling respectable river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene sent shew ships side silver singular Slesvig soldier sovereign spot Stockholm stone streets summer gardens Sweden Swedish taste theatre thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst wood young
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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.