A Tour Through Holland, Along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany, in the Summer and Autumn of 1806 ...Phillips, 1807 - 301 sider |
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... Cologne : anecdote of Rubens and other distinguished persons : present state of Cologne CHAPTER XXI . 221 Remarks on the French army : origin of the conscription : Ro- bespierre : French soldiers : policy of the generals : military ...
... Cologne : anecdote of Rubens and other distinguished persons : present state of Cologne CHAPTER XXI . 221 Remarks on the French army : origin of the conscription : Ro- bespierre : French soldiers : policy of the generals : military ...
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... Cologne may be serviceable to those who travel by the diligence or post - waggon , I shall insert it : From Amsterdam to Utrecht by water eight hours . to Arnheim by the diligence , which sets of every day from Utrecht one long day . to ...
... Cologne may be serviceable to those who travel by the diligence or post - waggon , I shall insert it : From Amsterdam to Utrecht by water eight hours . to Arnheim by the diligence , which sets of every day from Utrecht one long day . to ...
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... COLOGNE ...... ANECDOTE OF REUBENS AND OTHER DISTIN- GUISHED PERSONS ...... PRESENT STATE OF COLOGNE . DUSSELDORF , so called from the little river Dussel that waters its southern side , and Dhorpf which means village , is now the ...
... COLOGNE ...... ANECDOTE OF REUBENS AND OTHER DISTIN- GUISHED PERSONS ...... PRESENT STATE OF COLOGNE . DUSSELDORF , so called from the little river Dussel that waters its southern side , and Dhorpf which means village , is now the ...
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... Cologne . The palace is large , and very elegantly furnished ; the gardens are spacious , well kept , and open to well- dressed persons . The view of the city from these walks is very beautiful . The ramparts , which are levelling as ...
... Cologne . The palace is large , and very elegantly furnished ; the gardens are spacious , well kept , and open to well- dressed persons . The view of the city from these walks is very beautiful . The ramparts , which are levelling as ...
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... Cologne , the road to which is far more pleasant than any other part of the dutchy which I saw , though the whole is very flat . About six miles from Dusseldorf , I passed a beautiful country palace of the grand Duke , called Benrad ...
... Cologne , the road to which is far more pleasant than any other part of the dutchy which I saw , though the whole is very flat . About six miles from Dusseldorf , I passed a beautiful country palace of the grand Duke , called Benrad ...
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admirable afterwards agreeable amongst Amsterdam ANECDOTE appearance Arminians arms artist bank Batavian Batavian republic beautiful Berghem boat Boerhaave building called canals celebrated church colouring consequence constitution council court Delft delight displayed distinguished Dutch elegant emperor England English Europe excellent florins formed France French frequently gardens German Germanic empire grand pensionary guilders Haarlem Hague handsome high mightinesses Holland honour hour house of Orange hundred illustrious imperial inhabitants Jan Steen John of Leyden king ladies laws Leyden majesty master ment merchants miles ministers Napoleon nation never noble officers painted painter palace passed persons picture present Prince of Orange Prince Primate principal prisoners province received republic residence Rhine river Rotterdam royal scarcely scene Scheveling side soldiers spirit Stadtholder stiver piece stranger street taste thousand tion town treckschuyt trees troops Utrecht vast visited whilst wood
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 69 - We must not make a scare-crow of the law, ' Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Side 231 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Side 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.
Side 273 - 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...
Side 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.
Side 216 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Side 278 - 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...
Side 259 - Fruitless embraces ; or they led the vine To wed her elm ; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves.