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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... 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 the most necessary articles of clothing ; even whole battalions ...
... 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 the most necessary articles of clothing ; even whole battalions ...
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... remarkably rigorous , and they were obliged to pass over frozen canals , rivers and deep snows , many by the most wretched open conveyances , in their way to Helvoetsluys , where they embarked for that coun- try , which , since the time ...
... remarkably rigorous , and they were obliged to pass over frozen canals , rivers and deep snows , many by the most wretched open conveyances , in their way to Helvoetsluys , where they embarked for that coun- try , which , since the time ...
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... remarkably plea- sant to the touch ; and as a proof of its purity , it will bear to be frequently bent , without breaking . Upon almost every part of the continent this coin bears a premium , and is current throughout Europe . A double ...
... remarkably plea- sant to the touch ; and as a proof of its purity , it will bear to be frequently bent , without breaking . Upon almost every part of the continent this coin bears a premium , and is current throughout Europe . A double ...
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... remarkably excellent , and are submitted to the eye in the cleanest and most attractive manner . The Dutch potatoes are small and uncommonly good ; I think they are , if possible , superior to those of Ireland . The proximity of the ...
... remarkably excellent , and are submitted to the eye in the cleanest and most attractive manner . The Dutch potatoes are small and uncommonly good ; I think they are , if possible , superior to those of Ireland . The proximity of the ...
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... remarkably clean , but the canals are almost all of them green and stagnant , and at this season emitted an unplea- sant effluvia . Here , as in many cities in France , the armorial ensigns of distinguished families , which used to ...
... remarkably clean , but the canals are almost all of them green and stagnant , and at this season emitted an unplea- sant effluvia . Here , as in many cities in France , the armorial ensigns of distinguished families , which used to ...
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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.