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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... wood ; the bottom was half filled with hay , a cross seat or stool was fastened by straps to the sides , and the whole mounted upon four high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads ...
... wood ; the bottom was half filled with hay , a cross seat or stool was fastened by straps to the sides , and the whole mounted upon four high slender wheels ; it runs very lightly , and is admirably adapted to the heaviness of the roads ...
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... wood painted black , and the spaces between filled with stones . The country about Abenraac , a small fishing town , where we changed horses , was very pretty , and much resembled that beau- tiful slope of wood in Lord Borringdon's park ...
... wood painted black , and the spaces between filled with stones . The country about Abenraac , a small fishing town , where we changed horses , was very pretty , and much resembled that beau- tiful slope of wood in Lord Borringdon's park ...
الصفحة 19
... wood , to keep it together , and has a very inferior appearance to the warm com- pact neatness of the English thatch . The road from hence to Nioborg is good , partly paved , and the country on all sides very picturesque . The lambs ...
... wood , to keep it together , and has a very inferior appearance to the warm com- pact neatness of the English thatch . The road from hence to Nioborg is good , partly paved , and the country on all sides very picturesque . The lambs ...
الصفحة 22
... wood , so that when the post- master slackens the string or slight chain which attaches it hori- zontally to a post on the other side of the road , the bar rises suf- ficiently high to let a carriage pass under . Themile stones here ...
... wood , so that when the post- master slackens the string or slight chain which attaches it hori- zontally to a post on the other side of the road , the bar rises suf- ficiently high to let a carriage pass under . Themile stones here ...
الصفحة 25
... was a gallery richly gilded , and supported by forty - four columns of cinnamon wood , the bases and capitals of which were also richly gilded . An E artist of the name of Abilgaad was commissioned to embellish A NORTHERN SUMMER .. 25.
... was a gallery richly gilded , and supported by forty - four columns of cinnamon wood , the bases and capitals of which were also richly gilded . An E artist of the name of Abilgaad was commissioned to embellish A NORTHERN SUMMER .. 25.
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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.