Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain: During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1G. Ramsay, 1815 |
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... tion , near which the walk divides ; a branch de- scending to the sea - side , another keeping along the high grounds , and , after plunging again into the shade of a dark wood , and passing through groves of evergreen trees and shrubs ...
... tion , near which the walk divides ; a branch de- scending to the sea - side , another keeping along the high grounds , and , after plunging again into the shade of a dark wood , and passing through groves of evergreen trees and shrubs ...
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... tion comes from the old woman who showed it ) . Outside it appeared to me less light and airy than Gothic architecture generally is , according to my recollections . Objects seen again , after an inter- val of many years , appear no ...
... tion comes from the old woman who showed it ) . Outside it appeared to me less light and airy than Gothic architecture generally is , according to my recollections . Objects seen again , after an inter- val of many years , appear no ...
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... tion , which few of the disputants understand , and they are the more positive and violent on that very account . As to ministers , it is quite another thing ; the disputants on this point know exactly how the matter stands ; those who ...
... tion , which few of the disputants understand , and they are the more positive and violent on that very account . As to ministers , it is quite another thing ; the disputants on this point know exactly how the matter stands ; those who ...
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... tion he intended to make next week , respecting an act of oppression and cruelty of a captain of a ship of war against one of his sailors . He said only a few words : -This was Sir Francis Burdett , a very notorious gentleman at present ...
... tion he intended to make next week , respecting an act of oppression and cruelty of a captain of a ship of war against one of his sailors . He said only a few words : -This was Sir Francis Burdett , a very notorious gentleman at present ...
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... tion , which is among the very first requisites for eloquence . He stepped forward on the floor to- wards the table , and used animated gestures , a little à la Françoise , * or at least very different from the English mode of oratory ...
... tion , which is among the very first requisites for eloquence . He stepped forward on the floor to- wards the table , and used animated gestures , a little à la Françoise , * or at least very different from the English mode of oratory ...
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Page 134 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 26 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 136 - Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
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Page 223 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and...
Page 123 - Catches her child, and pointing where the waves Foam through the shatter'd vessel, shrieks aloud, As one poor wretch that spreads his piteous arms For succour, swallow'd by the roaring surge...
Page 322 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Page 134 - Was the hope drunk, Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since ? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?
Page 222 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Page 153 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.