Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - 530 páginas |
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... England , written in the English language , exposes himself . Any apology on the subject would , I know , be vain and useless ; and , having stated my mo- tives , I throw myself on the indulgence of the public . No man is expected to ...
... England , written in the English language , exposes himself . Any apology on the subject would , I know , be vain and useless ; and , having stated my mo- tives , I throw myself on the indulgence of the public . No man is expected to ...
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... England had come to his knowledge deserving of notice . M. Faujas de St Fond gave all his attention to minerals ; Madame Roland , Madame de Genlis , and Madame de Staël , have spoken incidentally of what they have seen in England ...
... England had come to his knowledge deserving of notice . M. Faujas de St Fond gave all his attention to minerals ; Madame Roland , Madame de Genlis , and Madame de Staël , have spoken incidentally of what they have seen in England ...
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... England , or in- deed in any country . His acquaintance with the language enabled him to observe with greater ease and accuracy than the generality of French tourists . In short , he might hope to do better what none had done well ...
... England , or in- deed in any country . His acquaintance with the language enabled him to observe with greater ease and accuracy than the generality of French tourists . In short , he might hope to do better what none had done well ...
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... England than in France , - although the French are unconscious of theirs . Should this work be favourably received in England , the success would be the more flatter . ing , from the author's having done little to please . He has spoken ...
... England than in France , - although the French are unconscious of theirs . Should this work be favourably received in England , the success would be the more flatter . ing , from the author's having done little to please . He has spoken ...
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... England . The author has not spoken of Bonaparte ! This silence in the times in which we live may appear singular , and deserves some notice or explana- tion . He knows , in fact , his Imperial and Royal Majesty only through the medium ...
... England . The author has not spoken of Bonaparte ! This silence in the times in which we live may appear singular , and deserves some notice or explana- tion . He knows , in fact , his Imperial and Royal Majesty only through the medium ...
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Página 167 - Hell is murky! — 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.
Página 166 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Página 164 - And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 164 - Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. 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.
Página 411 - 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,
Página 164 - Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macbeth. Prithee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man.
Página 456 - Tossing the torches' flames about. And the double double peals of the drum are there. And the startling burst of the trumpet's blare ; And the gong, that seems, with its thunders dread, To stun the living, and waken the dead. The ear-strings throb as if they were broke, And the eye-lids drop at the weight of its stroke.
Página 152 - 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...
Página 164 - 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?
Página 472 - Equity is a roguish thing ; for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...