Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1author; and for sale, 1815 - Great Britain |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page x
... present successor did not merely traverse England ; he lived in it without business , and was not pressed for time . His wife , who is English , was with him ; and he owes to her introduction a greater share of domestic intimacy than ...
... present successor did not merely traverse England ; he lived in it without business , and was not pressed for time . His wife , who is English , was with him ; and he owes to her introduction a greater share of domestic intimacy than ...
Page 22
... present impression of Ken- sington Gardens is that of a formal sort of wilderness . * • * I have since seen these gardens at a more propitious season ; their lofty avenues carpeted with green , are highly picturesque , as well as ...
... present impression of Ken- sington Gardens is that of a formal sort of wilderness . * • * I have since seen these gardens at a more propitious season ; their lofty avenues carpeted with green , are highly picturesque , as well as ...
Page 35
... present measures of ministers , which have not been of late either very wise or very successful , but the form and constitution of the government itself . It is stigmatized as vicious , corrupt , and in its decay , without hope or ...
... present measures of ministers , which have not been of late either very wise or very successful , but the form and constitution of the government itself . It is stigmatized as vicious , corrupt , and in its decay , without hope or ...
Page 39
... present , I believe , other calls for its money . But there is a society lately formed for the same object ; they have pro- vided some convenient rooms in Pall Mall , lighted by skylights , for the reception of modern pictures ; the ...
... present , I believe , other calls for its money . But there is a society lately formed for the same object ; they have pro- vided some convenient rooms in Pall Mall , lighted by skylights , for the reception of modern pictures ; the ...
Page 51
... present proprietor for L. 16,000 sterling , but had cost nearly double in building . The rent of houses a little inferior is L. 400 or L. 500 sterling a - year , including taxes ; but there are houses the rent of which is L. 1000 a ...
... present proprietor for L. 16,000 sterling , but had cost nearly double in building . The rent of houses a little inferior is L. 400 or L. 500 sterling a - year , including taxes ; but there are houses the rent of which is L. 1000 a ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
a-day a-year acre America appear beautiful better Buttermere called carriages castle certainly colouring Crummock water cultivation Dalmally door Edinburgh England English favourable feet high foot France French give Grasmere green half hand head Highlands hills honour horses inhabitants labour ladies lake land laws less liberty light Loch Loch Katrine London look Lord Macbeth means members of Parliament ment miles ministers morning Mount Edgecumbe mountains nature object observed Parliament passed Patterdale persons political poor remarkable rent rich river road rocks round Scotch Scotland seat seems seen sheep shew shewn side sight Sir Francis Sir Francis Burdett Sir William Petty Skipton sort sterling stone Stourhead talents taste thing tion town trees Valle Crucis Abbey valley Walcheren walk whole Windermere Windham young
Popular passages
Page 135 - 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 362 - ... 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, a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be!
Page 362 - 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 134 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Page 222 - Money as they shall think fit) a convenient Stock of Flax, Hemp, Wool, Thread, Iron, and other necessary Ware and Stuff, to set the Poor on Work: And also competent Sums of Money for and towards the necessary Relief of the Lame, Impotent, Old, Blind, and such other among them being Poor, and not able to work, and...
Page 133 - 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 25 - At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. *Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 133 - 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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn, as you Have done to this.
Page 319 - 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 iv - Longworth, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: " The Trust, a comedy, in five acts, by Charles Breck," in conformity to the act of the congress of the United States...