A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806R. Phillips, 1807 - 468 strán (strany) |
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Strana 8
... trees . A botanical gentleman informed me that the eryngium campestre , field eryngo , so very rare in England , grows in great profusion , and wild , on either side of the river , and in most other parts of Holland . When the night ...
... trees . A botanical gentleman informed me that the eryngium campestre , field eryngo , so very rare in England , grows in great profusion , and wild , on either side of the river , and in most other parts of Holland . When the night ...
Strana 10
... trees , running parallel with the river opposite to the ferry . Our landlord was very civil , and all his servants spoke French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes : I after- wards observed ...
... trees , running parallel with the river opposite to the ferry . Our landlord was very civil , and all his servants spoke French . In the principal apartment was a print of Napoleon in his coronation robes : I after- wards observed ...
Strana 11
... trees , is a spectacle at once novel and beautiful . The trees act as a fan to the houses in hot weather , and their leaves are said to inhale whatever mephitic air may arise from such of the canals as are stagnant , and to breathe it ...
... trees , is a spectacle at once novel and beautiful . The trees act as a fan to the houses in hot weather , and their leaves are said to inhale whatever mephitic air may arise from such of the canals as are stagnant , and to breathe it ...
Strana 12
... trees and lofty leaning houses appear mingled together , and at one view he sees before him the characteristic features of the country , the city , and the sea . CHAPTER II .暈 THE BOOMPIES .... BAYLE .... PREROGATIVES 12 TOUR THROUGH ...
... trees and lofty leaning houses appear mingled together , and at one view he sees before him the characteristic features of the country , the city , and the sea . CHAPTER II .暈 THE BOOMPIES .... BAYLE .... PREROGATIVES 12 TOUR THROUGH ...
Strana 17
... trees ; and the canals deeper and cleaner than in any other of the large cities in the kingdom . In consequence of the features of every street being so similar , a stranger finds uncommon difficulty in reaching the place of his ...
... trees ; and the canals deeper and cleaner than in any other of the large cities in the kingdom . In consequence of the features of every street being so similar , a stranger finds uncommon difficulty in reaching the place of his ...
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A Tour Through Holland: Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... Sir John Carr Úplné zobrazenie - 1807 |
A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the ... Sir John Carr Úplné zobrazenie - 1807 |
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admiration afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam anecdote appearance arms army artist bank Batavian republic beautiful boat building called canals celebrated church Cologne confederation consequence council Darmstadt delight displayed Dutch Elector elegant Emperor empire England English florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand Duke grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants king King of Bavaria Leyden lordships magnificent majesty manner Mayence ment merchants miles minister Napoleon nation never noble officers Orange painted painter palace passed persons picture possession present Prince Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal province racter received residence Rhine river Rotterdam scarcely scene side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger streets taste thousand tion tower town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast village visited whilst wine wood
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Strana 38 - Who deserves greatness Deserves your hate: and your affections are A sick man's appetite, who desires most that Which would increase his evil. He that depends Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye ? With every minute you do change a mind; And call him noble, that was now your hate, Him vile, that was your garland.
Strana 214 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Strana 229 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Strana 271 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Strana 60 - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
Strana 6 - That dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations...
Strana 7 - That feed, like Cannibals, on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes : A land that rides at anchor, and is moor'd, In which they do not live, but go aboard.
Strana 116 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Strana 276 - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Strana 46 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.