A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804 |
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... rock rising out of the ocean , and distant about forty - five miles from the nearest shore : it is only one mile in circumference , yet upon its bleak and bladeless top , no less than three thousand people live in health , prosperity ...
... rock rising out of the ocean , and distant about forty - five miles from the nearest shore : it is only one mile in circumference , yet upon its bleak and bladeless top , no less than three thousand people live in health , prosperity ...
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... rock chrystal , very beautifully engraved ; a horn of gold , found in Jutland , in 1639 , the inscription on which has puzzled the learned ; a bust of Brutus in bronze ; many precious antiquities of the country ; a portrait of Charles ...
... rock chrystal , very beautifully engraved ; a horn of gold , found in Jutland , in 1639 , the inscription on which has puzzled the learned ; a bust of Brutus in bronze ; many precious antiquities of the country ; a portrait of Charles ...
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... rock water once ran in a bed of pebbles before the door , in which the young willow dipped its leaves ; and at a little distance from a bed of wild roses the laburnum grace- fully rose and suspended her yellow flowers ; he selected an ...
... rock water once ran in a bed of pebbles before the door , in which the young willow dipped its leaves ; and at a little distance from a bed of wild roses the laburnum grace- fully rose and suspended her yellow flowers ; he selected an ...
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... rocks of granite , as far as they are advanced , are mar- vellous monuments of labour and enterprise . For the same rea- son also I was obliged to relinquish the gratification of seeing Gotheborg , the second city of Sweden , and the ...
... rocks of granite , as far as they are advanced , are mar- vellous monuments of labour and enterprise . For the same rea- son also I was obliged to relinquish the gratification of seeing Gotheborg , the second city of Sweden , and the ...
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... rock , thinly covered with gravel and earth , are said to be , and I believe with truth , the finest in the world . We accomplished several stages at the rate of thirteen and even fourteen English miles an hour . At the end of each ...
... rock , thinly covered with gravel and earth , are said to be , and I believe with truth , the finest in the world . We accomplished several stages at the rate of thirteen and even fourteen English miles an hour . At the end of each ...
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Page 114 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased.
Page 38 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Page 24 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 24 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of" some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 299 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
Page 39 - The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
Page 14 - Peesel, be quiet ; it is very late, i' faith : I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. Pist. These be good humors, indeed ! Shall pack-horses, And hollow, pampered jades of Asia, Which cannot go but thirty miles a day...
Page 272 - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 84 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Page 15 - To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all.