Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1author; and for sale, 1815 - Great Britain |
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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 from a ...
... 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 from a ...
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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 ever- green tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Portugal 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 ever- green tree , resembling the wild cherry of America , ( Portugal 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 enormous ...
... 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 enormous ...
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... covered with skaiters , some of them first rate ones . Ladies crowd round to con- template the human form divine , -strength , grace , and manly beauty . There is certainly much to ad- mire in this respect in the class of gentlemen in ...
... covered with skaiters , some of them first rate ones . Ladies crowd round to con- template the human form divine , -strength , grace , and manly beauty . There is certainly much to ad- mire in this respect in the class of gentlemen in ...
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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.
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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...