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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... horses . Language . Merry criminal . Prisons . Psalm - singing watchmen . Washerwomen . French comedy . Passports ... horses . Volunteer jacket . Appearance of Petersburg . Cossac . Renowned statue . CHAPTER XI . 74 85 109 . 127 ...
... horses . Language . Merry criminal . Prisons . Psalm - singing watchmen . Washerwomen . French comedy . Passports ... horses . Volunteer jacket . Appearance of Petersburg . Cossac . Renowned statue . CHAPTER XI . 74 85 109 . 127 ...
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... horses , being one more than we were compellable to take by the Danish post - law , but no more than the weight to be drawn and the depth of the roads rendered necessary . The post was to Flensborg , distant five Danish or twenty - five ...
... horses , being one more than we were compellable to take by the Danish post - law , but no more than the weight to be drawn and the depth of the roads rendered necessary . The post was to Flensborg , distant five Danish or twenty - five ...
الصفحة 12
... horses . In Holstein and Slesvig , as far as Hadersleb , a horse is twenty skillings of that currency , per mile Danish , which is equal to five miles English ; the other charges are per station or post : thus , 4 skillings Slesvig cur ...
... horses . In Holstein and Slesvig , as far as Hadersleb , a horse is twenty skillings of that currency , per mile Danish , which is equal to five miles English ; the other charges are per station or post : thus , 4 skillings Slesvig cur ...
الصفحة 13
... horses . To equalize their labour , in the course of the station , he changes the situation of each of them . A whimsical fellow of this condition amused us not a little , by every now and then peeping into the carriage , or as he ...
... horses . To equalize their labour , in the course of the station , he changes the situation of each of them . A whimsical fellow of this condition amused us not a little , by every now and then peeping into the carriage , or as he ...
الصفحة 14
... horses with large slices of barley bread . We passed some neat farm - houses , having the barn with two large folding doors in the centre , the offices belonging to the farm on one side , and the farm - house on the other ; the whole ...
... horses with large slices of barley bread . We passed some neat farm - houses , having the barn with two large folding doors in the centre , the offices belonging to the farm on one side , and the farm - house on the other ; the whole ...
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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 dinner displayed dress ducat elegant emperor England English miles Englishman favour favourite feet formed French frequently gardens German graceful grand granite groschen ground gulf of Finland Gustavus Gustavus III hand handsome Holstein honour horses hundred Husum imperial king knout lady late empress look magnificent majesty Mittau Neva never night noble o'clock observed officers painted palace passed peasants Peter Petersburg post-house presented prince proceeded Queen raised resembling respectable river road rock royal rubles Russ Russian scene shew ships side Slesvig sovereign Stockholm stone streets Strelna stuccoed summer gardens Sweden Swedish taste theatre thousand throne tion town traveller vast versts visited whilst young
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الصفحة 114 - 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 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
الصفحة 24 - 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.
الصفحة 24 - 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 299 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
الصفحة 39 - 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 14 - Peesel, be quiet ; it is very late, i' faith : I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. Pist. These be good humors, indeed ! Shall pack-horses, And hollow, pampered jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty miles a day...
الصفحة 272 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
الصفحة 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
الصفحة 15 - To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all.