Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... covered with furze ( a low , thorny bush ) , evergreen , nipt by a few goats and sheep ; not a fourth part of the sur- face is inclosed and cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived ...
... covered with furze ( a low , thorny bush ) , evergreen , nipt by a few goats and sheep ; not a fourth part of the sur- face is inclosed and cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived ...
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... covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of the climate . We have no creeping plants in North America which preserve their ver- dure in winter , and the effect of this profusion of ivy is very ...
... covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of the climate . We have no creeping plants in North America which preserve their ver- dure in winter , and the effect of this profusion of ivy is very ...
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... covered with blossoms ; another evergreen tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Por- tugal laurel we are told ) ; then such draperies of ivy , in ample folds over the rocks and trees ; such pines with moss of all colours ...
... covered with blossoms ; another evergreen tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Por- tugal laurel we are told ) ; then such draperies of ivy , in ample folds over the rocks and trees ; such pines with moss of all colours ...
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... covered with a slight thatching , and over that a sort of net of straw , to prevent the wind disturbing the thatch . Industry , method , and good order , are conspicuous every- where . Most of the land is in meadow . Turnips are ...
... covered with a slight thatching , and over that a sort of net of straw , to prevent the wind disturbing the thatch . Industry , method , and good order , are conspicuous every- where . Most of the land is in meadow . Turnips are ...
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... sort of wilderness . The weather is called here very cold ( 20 ° or 22 ° of the thermometer of Fahrenheit ) ; the Ser- pentine River is covered with skaiters , some of 24 LONDON - SKAITERS - WESTMINSTER ABBEY . them first.
... sort of wilderness . The weather is called here very cold ( 20 ° or 22 ° of the thermometer of Fahrenheit ) ; the Ser- pentine River is covered with skaiters , some of 24 LONDON - SKAITERS - WESTMINSTER ABBEY . them first.
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
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Página 367 - 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...
Página 136 - Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time 'to do't. — 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?
Página 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.
Página 136 - tis time to do't. 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 134 - 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? 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 134 - 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 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,
Página 173 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Página 134 - 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 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...