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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... tion . He knows , in fact , his Imperial and Royal Majesty only through the medium of the news- papers , and has no new facts to communicate . As to what he may think of him , the opinions expressed in the work on matters of government ...
... tion . He knows , in fact , his Imperial and Royal Majesty only through the medium of the news- papers , and has no new facts to communicate . As to what he may think of him , the opinions expressed in the work on matters of government ...
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... and commercial coun- try . There is much despondency about Spain , and but one voice against the Walcheren expedi- tion and against the ministers , who are not ex- with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing PASSPORTS . 5.
... and commercial coun- try . There is much despondency about Spain , and but one voice against the Walcheren expedi- tion and against the ministers , who are not ex- with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing PASSPORTS . 5.
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... tion . Being in haste , and not equipped for the place , we left it at three o'clock , dined and slept 14 miles off , on the direct road to London . During our ride , we saw a little stream appear here and there among the willows , in ...
... tion . Being in haste , and not equipped for the place , we left it at three o'clock , dined and slept 14 miles off , on the direct road to London . During our ride , we saw a little stream appear here and there among the willows , in ...
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... tion would become superfluous . - The library is excellent , and the librarian has just published a catalogue , which is not only useful to those who frequent it , but might serve as a model for the formation of a library in the ancient ...
... tion would become superfluous . - The library is excellent , and the librarian has just published a catalogue , which is not only useful to those who frequent it , but might serve as a model for the formation of a library in the ancient ...
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... tion of modern pictures ; the public is admitted at two shillings a head , and a person is always on the spot to treat with those who wish to buy any of the pictures . Those purchased remain there till the end of the exhibition , which ...
... tion of modern pictures ; the public is admitted at two shillings a head , and a person is always on the spot to treat with those who wish to buy any of the pictures . Those purchased remain there till the end of the exhibition , which ...
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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...