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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... most part along a level country , which displays a picture of fertility , but few scenes of beauty or grandeur , except a branch of the Vofges , which we traverfed near Bel- fort , and whofe fwelling mountains , pre- fenting faint ...
... most part along a level country , which displays a picture of fertility , but few scenes of beauty or grandeur , except a branch of the Vofges , which we traverfed near Bel- fort , and whofe fwelling mountains , pre- fenting faint ...
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... most powerfully At length , ” thought I , " I am going to con- template that interesting country , of which I have never heard without emotion ! -I am going to gaze upon images of nature ; images of which the idea has so often fwelled ...
... most powerfully At length , ” thought I , " I am going to con- template that interesting country , of which I have never heard without emotion ! -I am going to gaze upon images of nature ; images of which the idea has so often fwelled ...
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... most countries are , with refpect to the researches of gain , burghers of Bafil , during the hours of the morning , the evening at least is de- voted to amusement , to focial pleasure , to friendship , to fome object that cheers , or ...
... most countries are , with refpect to the researches of gain , burghers of Bafil , during the hours of the morning , the evening at least is de- voted to amusement , to focial pleasure , to friendship , to fome object that cheers , or ...
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... against the future tempefts of the world ; and no doubt many a fair member of thefe young focie- ties , when affailed by thofe ftorms of mif- fortune , fortune , which often beat with the most pi- tiless io A VIEW OF THE PRESENT.
... against the future tempefts of the world ; and no doubt many a fair member of thefe young focie- ties , when affailed by thofe ftorms of mif- fortune , fortune , which often beat with the most pi- tiless io A VIEW OF THE PRESENT.
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... most pi- tiless fury against hearts that can least resist their violence , recalls with tender regret the focial circle of her childhood ; and per- haps finds in the fympathy of fome female companion , to whom she is endeared by the ...
... most pi- tiless fury against hearts that can least resist their violence , recalls with tender regret the focial circle of her childhood ; and per- haps finds in the fympathy of fome female companion , to whom she is endeared by the ...
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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