A Tour in Switzerland, Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, المجلد 1G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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الصفحة 281
... Victoire , a fmart brown girl , whom on a Swifs mountain , or in any other remote region , where I had met her , I should immediately have recognized by a gracefully familiar ease of manner , temper- ed with the most profound respect ...
... Victoire , a fmart brown girl , whom on a Swifs mountain , or in any other remote region , where I had met her , I should immediately have recognized by a gracefully familiar ease of manner , temper- ed with the most profound respect ...
الصفحة 283
... Victoire , who seemed " " not a little anxious to know my opinion of things in general " at Paris , was fo ex- tremely voluble in her inquiries , that I found it impoffible for my answers to keep any pace with her questions . Victoire's ...
... Victoire , who seemed " " not a little anxious to know my opinion of things in general " at Paris , was fo ex- tremely voluble in her inquiries , that I found it impoffible for my answers to keep any pace with her questions . Victoire's ...
الصفحة 284
... Victoire proceeded in her observations till I interrupted her by remarking , that she muft no doubt find herself very happy at fuch a fafe distance from Paris , among thofe fine mountains.- " Ah , Madame , " inter- rupted Victoire ...
... Victoire proceeded in her observations till I interrupted her by remarking , that she muft no doubt find herself very happy at fuch a fafe distance from Paris , among thofe fine mountains.- " Ah , Madame , " inter- rupted Victoire ...
الصفحة 285
... Victoire , " I was afhamed myself of being feen in Paris , for all the femmes de chambres of my acquaint- ance had emigrated an age before . " Upon the whole I obferved , from Victoire's con- verfation , that her wrath and indignation ...
... Victoire , " I was afhamed myself of being feen in Paris , for all the femmes de chambres of my acquaint- ance had emigrated an age before . " Upon the whole I obferved , from Victoire's con- verfation , that her wrath and indignation ...
الصفحة 290
... Victoire , as the wives of two Swifs traders , who had come to Paris upon affairs of commerce , and were returning to their own country . Madame Madame C , after thanking her friend for life , 290 A VIEW OF THE PRESENT.
... Victoire , as the wives of two Swifs traders , who had come to Paris upon affairs of commerce , and were returning to their own country . Madame Madame C , after thanking her friend for life , 290 A VIEW OF THE PRESENT.
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الصفحة 269 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence...
الصفحة 269 - I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
الصفحة 33 - No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
الصفحة 24 - ... in a flat purfe of morocco leather, only large enough to contain a few louis, at the fide of her neck, and giving her fnuff-box and her pocket-handkerchief to the care of the gentleman who attends her, and to whom fhe applies for them whenever fhe has occafion.
الصفحة 71 - O lay me, ye that see the light, near some rock of my hills! let the thick hazels be around, let the rustling oak be near. Green be the place of my rest; let the sound of the distant torrent be heard.
الصفحة 24 - The fair Grecians being determined not , to injure the contour of fine forms by fuperfluous incumbrances, no fafhionable lady at Paris wears any pockets, and the inconvenience of being without is obviated by...
الصفحة 1 - Bafil is a town of clubbifts, containing no lefs than twelve fmoking focieties, each compofed of about fixty members, who meet every afternoon at an early hour, drink tea amidft the exhilarating fumes of tobacco, difcufs the political fituation,. but far more indefatigably the commercial affairs of the town, calculate the gains and...
الصفحة 274 - The fpirit-ftirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality* Pride, pomp, and circumftance of glorious war ! And, oh, you mortal engines, whole rude throats Th* immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewel ! * Othello's occupation's gone ! lagt.
الصفحة 48 - ... very wife men, who admit of no fcope to that faculty of the mind called imagination, and are for ever bringing every theory to the fquare and the...
الصفحة 95 - Cox, that he found mopkeepers in this city reading Virgil, Horace, and Plutarch ; from which he was, no doubt, well authorized to draw his conclufion, that there is no country in the world where the people are fo happy. • But whatever were the Halcyon days of tafte and learning at the period of Mr. Cox's vifit, it is a melancholy fact, that this literary fpirit has entirely evaporated fince his departure. Thefe lettered triumphs, the