Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain: During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volumen1G. Ramsay, 1815 |
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... . Such wonderful changes have taken place since this Journal was written , that a consi- derable part of the views and opinions it re- cords are now completely out of date . Yet an 1 NOTICE . vii that account of things as they were.
... . Such wonderful changes have taken place since this Journal was written , that a consi- derable part of the views and opinions it re- cords are now completely out of date . Yet an 1 NOTICE . vii that account of things as they were.
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... taken the trouble of cutting the leaves of such chapters . They may just as easily skip digressions as chapters , and , glancing over the margin , read only where dates shew them that the traveller is again on the road , and tells of ...
... taken the trouble of cutting the leaves of such chapters . They may just as easily skip digressions as chapters , and , glancing over the margin , read only where dates shew them that the traveller is again on the road , and tells of ...
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... taken my seat , the carriage rattled away full speed . This was much better than my morning conveyance , and I enjoyed the change ; but after a few miles , an apprehension seized me of being carried beyond the part to which I was bound ...
... taken my seat , the carriage rattled away full speed . This was much better than my morning conveyance , and I enjoyed the change ; but after a few miles , an apprehension seized me of being carried beyond the part to which I was bound ...
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... taken up , or too little . A French traveller once remarked sagaciously , that there is a malady peculiar to the climate of England , called the catch - cold ; this malady , under the modern title of influenza , has recently afflicted ...
... taken up , or too little . A French traveller once remarked sagaciously , that there is a malady peculiar to the climate of England , called the catch - cold ; this malady , under the modern title of influenza , has recently afflicted ...
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... taken any trouble to forward our views of pleasure and instruction , I wish I could pay a just tribute of my gratitude to Sir Charles B , who has taken every opportu nity of obliging us ; but I have determined to name none but persons ...
... taken any trouble to forward our views of pleasure and instruction , I wish I could pay a just tribute of my gratitude to Sir Charles B , who has taken every opportu nity of obliging us ; but I have determined to name none but persons ...
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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.