Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... better undertake the task my- self , having , in fact , the materials ready . I now , therefore , venture to give the original English Journal , such as it was written at the vi NOTICE . moment , with very little alteration ;
... better undertake the task my- self , having , in fact , the materials ready . I now , therefore , venture to give the original English Journal , such as it was written at the vi NOTICE . moment , with very little alteration ;
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... better what none had done well . Private anecdotes have been excluded as much as possible . It is a great sacrifice ; for they do not merely amuse the reader , but they initiate him into the peculiarities of national manners , and the ...
... better what none had done well . Private anecdotes have been excluded as much as possible . It is a great sacrifice ; for they do not merely amuse the reader , but they initiate him into the peculiarities of national manners , and the ...
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... better pleased and happier . December 30. - The weather has been singularly mild since we landed ; the sky cloudy and misty , without absolute rain ; a little , and very little sun , seen every day . Fahrenheit's thermometer about 50 ...
... better pleased and happier . December 30. - The weather has been singularly mild since we landed ; the sky cloudy and misty , without absolute rain ; a little , and very little sun , seen every day . Fahrenheit's thermometer about 50 ...
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... all that lives , perfecting and destroying in regular succession , seems to extend to the mechanical skill of our fingers . The artist draws better after laying down his pencil 12 EXETER - CATHEDRAL . for sometime , or plays.
... all that lives , perfecting and destroying in regular succession , seems to extend to the mechanical skill of our fingers . The artist draws better after laying down his pencil 12 EXETER - CATHEDRAL . for sometime , or plays.
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... better ! The organ , sweet , powerful , and solemn , formed a single ac- companiment , without foppish flourishing : -the whole effect superior to my recollections of the plein chant . Music and poetry are certainly nearly allied ; one ...
... better ! The organ , sweet , powerful , and solemn , formed a single ac- companiment , without foppish flourishing : -the whole effect superior to my recollections of the plein chant . Music and poetry are certainly nearly allied ; one ...
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Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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,
Page 173 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Page 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.
Page 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...