Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain: During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volumen1G. Ramsay, 1815 |
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... covered with furze ( a low , thorny bush ) , evergreen , nipt by a few goats and sheep ; not a fourth part of the sur- face is inclosed and cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived ...
... covered with furze ( a low , thorny bush ) , evergreen , nipt by a few goats and sheep ; not a fourth part of the sur- face is inclosed and cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived ...
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... covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of the climate . We have no creeping plants in North America which preserve their ver- dure in winter , and the effect of this profusion of ivy is very ...
... covered with moss , even to the smallest branches , owing to the prevailing moisture of the climate . We have no creeping plants in North America which preserve their ver- dure in winter , and the effect of this profusion of ivy is very ...
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... covered with blossoms ; another evergreen 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 ...
... covered with blossoms ; another evergreen 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 ...
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... covered with a slight thatching , and over that a sort of net of straw , to prevent the wind disturbing the thatch . Industry , method , and good order , are conspicuous every- where . Most of the land is in meadow . Turnips are ...
... covered with a slight thatching , and over that a sort of net of straw , to prevent the wind disturbing the thatch . Industry , method , and good order , are conspicuous every- where . Most of the land is in meadow . Turnips are ...
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... sort of wilderness . The weather is called here very cold ( 20 ° or 22 ° of the thermometer of Fahrenheit ) ; the Ser- pentine River is covered with skaiters , some of 24 LONDON - SKAITERSWESTMINSTER ABBEY . them first rate ones.
... sort of wilderness . The weather is called here very cold ( 20 ° or 22 ° of the thermometer of Fahrenheit ) ; the Ser- pentine River is covered with skaiters , some of 24 LONDON - SKAITERSWESTMINSTER ABBEY . them first rate ones.
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Página 134 - 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 26 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes 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.
Página 136 - 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 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 223 - 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...
Página 123 - Catches her child, and pointing where the waves Foam through the shatter'd vessel, shrieks aloud, As one poor wretch that spreads his piteous arms For succour, swallow'd by the roaring surge...
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 134 - Was the hope drunk, 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?
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...
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.