Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... mountains ; it is a lump of earth sloping to the water , more or less abruptly , but with great va- riety , and deeply indented with bays . The great charm is the contrast of the loneliness and retire- ment of the objects near you ...
... mountains ; it is a lump of earth sloping to the water , more or less abruptly , but with great va- riety , and deeply indented with bays . The great charm is the contrast of the loneliness and retire- ment of the objects near you ...
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... the canvas , without giving to distant objects larger dimensions than they really have ; mountains represented under their true angle would look like ant hills . Historical sub- VOL . I. M 178 LONDON - PAINTING . jects , an dany others.
... the canvas , without giving to distant objects larger dimensions than they really have ; mountains represented under their true angle would look like ant hills . Historical sub- VOL . I. M 178 LONDON - PAINTING . jects , an dany others.
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... mountain , -one of them in a grotto . There is certainly great beauty in all this ; but the water of the lake is dull and muddy , full of reeds and aquatic plants , which mark its stagnation . The lawns are half covered and belittled by ...
... mountain , -one of them in a grotto . There is certainly great beauty in all this ; but the water of the lake is dull and muddy , full of reeds and aquatic plants , which mark its stagnation . The lawns are half covered and belittled by ...
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... mountains , and without water , were still highly beautiful , and almost sublime . Very few commons or waste grounds were to be seen ; those few had sheep and a vast number of young asses grazing about ; these , with their long ears and ...
... mountains , and without water , were still highly beautiful , and almost sublime . Very few commons or waste grounds were to be seen ; those few had sheep and a vast number of young asses grazing about ; these , with their long ears and ...
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... mountains , shook into every possible form of horror . " Cader Idris deserves alone the name of mountain , and formed a conspicuous ob- ject for a great part of yesterday . We stopped at its base to see a very pretty waterfall , and ...
... mountains , shook into every possible form of horror . " Cader Idris deserves alone the name of mountain , and formed a conspicuous ob- ject for a great part of yesterday . We stopped at its base to see a very pretty waterfall , and ...
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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...