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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... : Mr. Lancaster's school CHAPTER IV . 22 The coins : practice of vails - giving in Holland : fruit and vegeta- ble sellers : Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping : whimsi- cal sarcasm of a traveller : singular offence offered to.
... : Mr. Lancaster's school CHAPTER IV . 22 The coins : practice of vails - giving in Holland : fruit and vegeta- ble sellers : Dutch passion for scrubbing and mopping : whimsi- cal sarcasm of a traveller : singular offence offered to.
الصفحة x
... offered to a chamber- maid : Dutch prints of Lord Nelson : treatment of our coun- trymen at Verdun : Dutch compared with the Chinese : private collections of paintings : brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs : remarks on Dutch and Flemish ...
... offered to a chamber- maid : Dutch prints of Lord Nelson : treatment of our coun- trymen at Verdun : Dutch compared with the Chinese : private collections of paintings : brief anecdote of the Vanderwerfs : remarks on Dutch and Flemish ...
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... offered up to the manes of Servetus , must have smiled with satisfaction at the motley group , surrounding a pot of boiled peas and pork , and enveloped in a deep fog of steam and smoke , thus offering up their homage in the language ...
... offered up to the manes of Servetus , must have smiled with satisfaction at the motley group , surrounding a pot of boiled peas and pork , and enveloped in a deep fog of steam and smoke , thus offering up their homage in the language ...
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... offered to con- duct us in safety past the guard - ship if we would give him two guineas apiece : and to secure our transit , he proposed shutting us all down in his cabin , under hatchways , for that night and the whole of the next day ...
... offered to con- duct us in safety past the guard - ship if we would give him two guineas apiece : and to secure our transit , he proposed shutting us all down in his cabin , under hatchways , for that night and the whole of the next day ...
الصفحة 16
... offered the captains of some of ours , supplies of gunpowder at an advanced price , in consequence of understanding that two or three of our ships had nearly exhausted their stores of it . The Dey of Tunis made a more whimsical offer ...
... offered the captains of some of ours , supplies of gunpowder at an advanced price , in consequence of understanding that two or three of our ships had nearly exhausted their stores of it . The Dey of Tunis made a more whimsical offer ...
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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.