A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 27R. Phillips & Company, 1809 |
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... Madame G , the amiable mother of the gen- tlemen I have mentioned , who received us with great politeness , and immediately arranged a dinner party for us . It being rather early in the morning , we were admitted into her bed - chamber ...
... Madame G , the amiable mother of the gen- tlemen I have mentioned , who received us with great politeness , and immediately arranged a dinner party for us . It being rather early in the morning , we were admitted into her bed - chamber ...
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... Madame G , the mother , who was born in England , aud who married a French gentleman of large fortune , whom she survived , of a delicate frame , and advanced in years , was com- mitted to prison , where , with many other female ...
... Madame G , the mother , who was born in England , aud who married a French gentleman of large fortune , whom she survived , of a delicate frame , and advanced in years , was com- mitted to prison , where , with many other female ...
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... deluded Mr. G― on the road . A short time after this , and a few days before Madame G and her unhappy companions were to have perished on the scaffold , the gates of their 1 prison flew open , the world was released from D 3 IN FRANCE . 29.
... deluded Mr. G― on the road . A short time after this , and a few days before Madame G and her unhappy companions were to have perished on the scaffold , the gates of their 1 prison flew open , the world was released from D 3 IN FRANCE . 29.
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... Madame P many happy years , and receiving from her the same assurances of civility , about seven o'clock in the evening I seated myself in the diligence for Paris , and in a comfortable corner of it , after we had passed the pavé ...
... Madame P many happy years , and receiving from her the same assurances of civility , about seven o'clock in the evening I seated myself in the diligence for Paris , and in a comfortable corner of it , after we had passed the pavé ...
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... Madame H- who intended returning to town the next day , I went to see the consular guard relieved at the Thuilleries . About five companies of this distinguished regiment assemble in the gardens , exactly at five minutes be fore twelve ...
... Madame H- who intended returning to town the next day , I went to see the consular guard relieved at the Thuilleries . About five companies of this distinguished regiment assemble in the gardens , exactly at five minutes be fore twelve ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admirable adorned amongst Amsterdam ancient appearance ascended beautiful beheld boat brick building built Buonaparte canals carriage celebrated centre church colour consul copecs court covered Darmstadt delightful dinner displayed distance dress Dutch Dutch brick elegant emperor England English miles entered erected excellent exquisite favourite feet formed France Frankfort French frequently gardens Gatchina gloomy grand ground gulf of Finland Gustavus III Haarlem Hague handsome Holland honour horses hundred Husum imperial inhabitants king lady Leyden lofty Madame magnificent massy ment military Monsieur never noble o'clock observed officers painted palace Paris passed persons Petersburg Petit Trianon pile present prince prince primate principal prison resembling residence Rhine river road Robespierre Rotterdam Russian scene side sir Sidney soldiers spot Stadtholder streets stuccoed surprize Sweden taste theatre thousand tion town traveller trees vast versts visited walks whilst wood
Passagens conhecidas
Página 170 - 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...
Página 122 - And want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Página 309 - 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.
Página 216 - Paul's apprehension, or anonymous information, suggested the idea, is not known, but conceiving that a storm was ready to burst upon him, he sent to count P , the governor of the city, one of the noblemen who had resolved on his destruction: " I am informed, P ," said the emperor, « that there is a conspiracy on foot against me ; do you think it " necessary to take any precaution ?" The count, without betraying the least emotion, replied, " Sire, do not suffer such apprehensions " to haunt your...
Página 215 - ... where they stood." His fate, which was fast approaching, prevented the accomplishment of this irretrievable act of delirium. The emperor and his family resided, at the time when the confederacy had resolved upon his removal, in the new palace of Saint Michael. It is an enormous quadrangular pile, of red Dutch...
Página 71 - Haste hither, Eve, and worth thy sight behold Eastward among those trees, what glorious shape Comes this way moving, seems another morn Risen on mid-noon ; some great behest from heaven To us perhaps he brings, and will vouchsafe This day to be our guest.
Página 216 - I am satisfied," said the emperor, and the governor withdrew. Before Paul retired to rest, he unexpectedly expressed the most tender solicitude for the Empress and his children, kissed them with all the warmth of farewell fondness, and remained with them longer than usual ; and after he had visited...
Página 217 - Finding that they fixed their eyes steadily and fiercely upon him, and continued advancing towards him, he implored them to spare his life, declared his consent instantly to relinquish the sceptre, and to accept of any terms which they would dictate. In his raving, he offered to make them princes, and to give them estates, and titles, and orders, without end, 1 hey now began to press upon him, when he made a convulsive effort to...
Página 218 - Upon which he took off his sash, turned it twice round the naked neck of the Emperor, and giving one end to Z , and holding the other himself, they pulled for a considerable time with all their force, until their miserable sovereign was no more. They then.
Página 119 - ... produced by music, when the instrument is brought in contact with their persons. We are told of a lady in Paris who tried an experiment upon a young woman who was both deaf and dumb. She fastened a silk thread about the girl's mouth, and rested the other end upon her pianoforte, upon which she played a pathetic air ; her visitor soon appeared much affected, and at length burst into tears. When she recovered, she wrote down upon a piece of paper that she had experienced a delight which she could...