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 1

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G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798

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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

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