Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... trees , -some pines , and many green tufts like laurels . The town of Falmouth , — little , old , and ugly , —was seen on our left , and an- other assemblage of little old houses on our right , ( Flushing ) ; Pendennis Castle behind us ...
... trees , -some pines , and many green tufts like laurels . The town of Falmouth , — little , old , and ugly , —was seen on our left , and an- other assemblage of little old houses on our right , ( Flushing ) ; Pendennis Castle behind us ...
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... trees . No new houses to be seen ; very few young trees ; all is old , and mouldering into picturesque forms and colours . The trees are uniformly covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of ...
... trees . No new houses to be seen ; very few young trees ; all is old , and mouldering into picturesque forms and colours . The trees are uniformly covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of ...
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... trees upon the hill behind . The grounds , which I should judge not to exceed five or six hundred acres , form a ... trees and shrubs , advances along the precipitous heights , ( B ) where the sight , unchecked by any trees , and from an ...
... trees upon the hill behind . The grounds , which I should judge not to exceed five or six hundred acres , form a ... trees and shrubs , advances along the precipitous heights , ( B ) where the sight , unchecked by any trees , and from an ...
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... 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 , along the trunk and branches ; and on the ...
... 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 , along the trunk and branches ; and on the ...
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... trees , and green fields . This ridge is intersected by a deep gap , near which a confused heap of roofs , towers , and steeples , and smoke , mark the town ; dirty sub- urbs succeeded to this view ; then a bridge over a mean and muddy ...
... trees , and green fields . This ridge is intersected by a deep gap , near which a confused heap of roofs , towers , and steeples , and smoke , mark the town ; dirty sub- urbs succeeded to this view ; then a bridge over a mean and muddy ...
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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...