A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 من الصفحات |
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... entered the river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pee- vishly describes : " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon them break , " And ...
... entered the river of a country which our Hudibrastic Butler thus pee- vishly describes : " A country that draws fifty foot of water , " In which men live as in the hold of nature ; " And when the sea does in upon them break , " And ...
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... entered Holland as victors , this beauti- ful river , in a season remarkably rigorous , formed a compact road of ice for the infantry , cavalry , and artillery , of the invaders ; dreadful as the winter was , the French were in want of ...
... entered Holland as victors , this beauti- ful river , in a season remarkably rigorous , formed a compact road of ice for the infantry , cavalry , and artillery , of the invaders ; dreadful as the winter was , the French were in want of ...
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... entered Rotterdam , they were quar- tered on the inhabitants , whose good opinion , I was well informed , they soon conciliated by their quiet conduct and orderly deport- ment . I afterwards received the same character of the French ...
... entered Rotterdam , they were quar- tered on the inhabitants , whose good opinion , I was well informed , they soon conciliated by their quiet conduct and orderly deport- ment . I afterwards received the same character of the French ...
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... entered into an agreement with a mercantile house in Rotterdam , to supply the requisition for the clothing of the French army , by a clandestine importation of cloth from England , and the looms of Yorkshire accordingly clothed ten ...
... entered into an agreement with a mercantile house in Rotterdam , to supply the requisition for the clothing of the French army , by a clandestine importation of cloth from England , and the looms of Yorkshire accordingly clothed ten ...
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... entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged both his pistols at once . Two other associates of the dead men immediately returned the fire , but without effect , when the intrepid and veteran stranger , taking im ...
... entered , and were instantly shot by the son , who discharged both his pistols at once . Two other associates of the dead men immediately returned the fire , but without effect , when the intrepid and veteran stranger , taking im ...
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
الصفحة 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
الصفحة 271 - 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
الصفحة 7 - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 276 - 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...
الصفحة 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.