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 ページ |
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... streets : insalubrity of stagnant canals : societies for recovering drowned persons : : noble conduct of the Emperor Alexander : Polish gratitude Austria : the exchange : a Dutch merchant : her- ring fishery CHAPTER XVII . 174 Former ...
... streets : insalubrity of stagnant canals : societies for recovering drowned persons : : noble conduct of the Emperor Alexander : Polish gratitude Austria : the exchange : a Dutch merchant : her- ring fishery CHAPTER XVII . 174 Former ...
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... streets adorned , as is the case through- out Holland , with noble rows of 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 ...
... streets adorned , as is the case through- out Holland , with noble rows of 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 ...
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... streets . If these houses had not the appearance of being perfectly stable , from the freshness of their outsides , and from their presenting no fissures , a stranger would be induced from apprehension of per- sonal safety , to prefer ...
... streets . If these houses had not the appearance of being perfectly stable , from the freshness of their outsides , and from their presenting no fissures , a stranger would be induced from apprehension of per- sonal safety , to prefer ...
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... street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance to it . Many of the houses are very noble ...
... street is very broad and truly magnificent ; and the prospect from it , over the river , and the opposite country , highly delightful . Chey- ney - walk at Chelsea is a very humble resemblance to it . Many of the houses are very noble ...
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... streets , the rich in this country " Resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases , " That keep their sounds to themselves . " Timon of Athens , Act . I. Sc . 5 . In no country of its size , as will appear TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 15.
... streets , the rich in this country " Resemble sweet instruments hung up in cases , " That keep their sounds to themselves . " Timon of Athens , Act . I. Sc . 5 . In no country of its size , as will appear TOUR THROUGH HOLLAND . 15.
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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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271 ページ - 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...
60 ページ - This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
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116 ページ - 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.
276 ページ - 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...
46 ページ - ... 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.