Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... fall of snow , and it adhered unequally . The cause of this is evidently the smoke which covers London ; but it is difficult to account for its unequal operation . This singularity has not the bad effect which might be expected from it ...
... fall of snow , and it adhered unequally . The cause of this is evidently the smoke which covers London ; but it is difficult to account for its unequal operation . This singularity has not the bad effect which might be expected from it ...
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... fall of Niagara , heard at two miles distance ! This crisis continues undi- minished till twelve or one o'clock ; then less and less during the rest of the night , -till , at the ap- . ар . proach of day , a single carriage is heard now ...
... fall of Niagara , heard at two miles distance ! This crisis continues undi- minished till twelve or one o'clock ; then less and less during the rest of the night , -till , at the ap- . ар . proach of day , a single carriage is heard now ...
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... advance . But when some rays of sun happens to fall on this arti- ficial atmosphere , its impure mass assumes imme- diately a pale orange tint , similar to the effect of 38 LONDON ATMOSPHERE - PICTURES . Claude Lorraine glasses ,
... advance . But when some rays of sun happens to fall on this arti- ficial atmosphere , its impure mass assumes imme- diately a pale orange tint , similar to the effect of 38 LONDON ATMOSPHERE - PICTURES . Claude Lorraine glasses ,
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... falling . This black snow sticks to your clothes and linen , or lights on your face . You just feel something on your nose , or your cheek , -the finger is applied mechanically , and fixes it into a black patch ! England is rich in ...
... falling . This black snow sticks to your clothes and linen , or lights on your face . You just feel something on your nose , or your cheek , -the finger is applied mechanically , and fixes it into a black patch ! England is rich in ...
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... falling , ending and beginning again , as the mem- ber happens to say any thing remarkable . Judging from the reputed taciturnity of this na- tion , it might be supposed that the gravity of a legislative assembly would be more ...
... falling , ending and beginning again , as the mem- ber happens to say any thing remarkable . Judging from the reputed taciturnity of this na- tion , it might be supposed that the gravity of a legislative assembly would be more ...
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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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Passagens conhecidas
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...