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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... taste for the concord of sweet sounds , seldom turned their auricular organs towards this hoarse croaking tube . Thus did we move in all the majesty of a menagerie upon the point of en- tering a town on a fair - day . THE VILLAGE WONDER ...
... taste for the concord of sweet sounds , seldom turned their auricular organs towards this hoarse croaking tube . Thus did we move in all the majesty of a menagerie upon the point of en- tering a town on a fair - day . THE VILLAGE WONDER ...
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... taste , and are wholly unenriched by those exquisite interlacings in the roof that form the principal beauty of Gothic architecture , the rudiments of which na- ture first imparted to our early forefathers , by placing be- fore their ...
... taste , and are wholly unenriched by those exquisite interlacings in the roof that form the principal beauty of Gothic architecture , the rudiments of which na- ture first imparted to our early forefathers , by placing be- fore their ...
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... taste of the Tuscan grape out of the same vessel . There are here also some exquisite carvings in wood , by a Norwegian farmer , with a common knife ; some mummies badly preserved ; a piece of amber weighing more than twenty- seven ...
... taste of the Tuscan grape out of the same vessel . There are here also some exquisite carvings in wood , by a Norwegian farmer , with a common knife ; some mummies badly preserved ; a piece of amber weighing more than twenty- seven ...
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... taste ; the latter is by no means splendid . I was more gratified with the King's park , which is extensive and highly picturesque , as I was with the grounds and gardens of Prince Frederic , the King's brother : this spot is very ...
... taste ; the latter is by no means splendid . I was more gratified with the King's park , which is extensive and highly picturesque , as I was with the grounds and gardens of Prince Frederic , the King's brother : this spot is very ...
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... longer display its skill , taste will worship , and wealth will covet , the marble which it has touched , and time will enrol his name amongst the most favoured sons of Genius . R 122 SWEDISH ACADEMIES . In painting , the two Martins.
... longer display its skill , taste will worship , and wealth will covet , the marble which it has touched , and time will enrol his name amongst the most favoured sons of Genius . R 122 SWEDISH ACADEMIES . In painting , the two Martins.
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Page 183 - 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...
Page 216 - O, reason not the need ! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow" not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's.
Page 38 - ... 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. 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 90 - And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment ; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Page 469 - 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 63 - 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 38 - 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 243 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Page 424 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd 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 64 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.