Gleanings through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia. To which is added, Humanity; a poem, Volume 1Longman, Rees, 1802 |
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... pleasant and kindly re- membered little frontier town , the * Brielle , of which no fcanty Gleaning will be found in its place . Doubtful , however , of events , he did not wish to abide the chance of In Holland , where the Family of Mr ...
... pleasant and kindly re- membered little frontier town , the * Brielle , of which no fcanty Gleaning will be found in its place . Doubtful , however , of events , he did not wish to abide the chance of In Holland , where the Family of Mr ...
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... pleasant , an interesting fight ; it warmed the bofom of the Author to its inmoft receffes ; he was in humour with every thing ; the comfort - looking huts , the ample downs , the sheep that fed upon them , the soft and peace- ful ...
... pleasant , an interesting fight ; it warmed the bofom of the Author to its inmoft receffes ; he was in humour with every thing ; the comfort - looking huts , the ample downs , the sheep that fed upon them , the soft and peace- ful ...
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... pleasantly fanciful at least , of all modern travellers , in his inimitable " Journey , " has given us , in his own fportive manner , a catalogue of travellers , with proper and charac- teristick epithets ; fuch as the fentimental , po ...
... pleasantly fanciful at least , of all modern travellers , in his inimitable " Journey , " has given us , in his own fportive manner , a catalogue of travellers , with proper and charac- teristick epithets ; fuch as the fentimental , po ...
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... pleasant you have paft in your whole life . New paftures of the most exuberant fertility , new woods rifing in the ma- jefty of foliage , the road itself curving in number- lefs unexpected directions , at one moment shut into a verdant ...
... pleasant you have paft in your whole life . New paftures of the most exuberant fertility , new woods rifing in the ma- jefty of foliage , the road itself curving in number- lefs unexpected directions , at one moment shut into a verdant ...
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... pleasant objects of the place , to see the natives in their little fishing boats , on a fine morning , when the fea is calm . If you look at them from the rocky fide of the village , the boats feem like buoys , and the people that guide ...
... pleasant objects of the place , to see the natives in their little fishing boats , on a fine morning , when the fea is calm . If you look at them from the rocky fide of the village , the boats feem like buoys , and the people that guide ...
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affiftance affured againſt almoſt amongſt anſwer Barmouth Batavians beauty becauſe beft benevolence beſt Brielle Britiſh cauſe courſe defcribed defire deſcription Engliſh faid fairy fame fecond feems feen fentiment feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fide figh filk fince fingle fingular firft firſt fituation fome fomething fometimes foon foul fpirit friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fure Gleaner Gleanings happineſs happy heart hiftorian hiftory himſelf hofpitable honeft honour horfe horſe houfe houſe human inftance interefting itſelf juft laft leaft leaſt lefs leſs LETTER mafter moft moſt mountains muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obfervation occafion paffed perfons pleaſant pleaſed pleaſure poor prefent publick reafon refidence refpect ſcene ſeems ſhall ſhe South Wales ſpeak Stadtholder ſtate thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thouſand tion traveller truft uſe vifit village Wales Welſh whofe whoſe wiſh worfe
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Page 87 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Page 290 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 345 - The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the poet in his muse.
Page 347 - But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend ; 48 Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
Page 167 - Above the castle is a long ridge of hills finely shaded, part of which is the park ; and still higher is a terrace, up to which you are led through very fine lawns, from whence you have a view that exceeds...
Page 194 - London. The weather was so very terrific, that I had forgot his inveterate exactness, and had yielded up the hope of expecting him. Twelve at noon was the hour ; and exactly as the clock struck...
Page 193 - ... that time. His journeys were continued from prison to prison, from one group of wretched beings to another, night and day ; and where he could not go with a carriage he would ride, and where that was hazardous he would walk. Such a thing as an obstruction was out of the question.
Page 159 - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the...
Page 98 - ... it being, at least, as usual for the Pastoras of the mountains to go from the bed of courtship to the bed of marriage as unpolluted and maidenly as the Chloes of fashion; and yet you are not to conclude that this proceeds from their being less susceptible of the belle-passion than their betters; or that the cold air which they breathe has 'froze the genial current of their souls.
Page 347 - Heaven to Mankind impartial we confefs, If all are equal in their Happinefs : But mutual wants this Happinefs increafe; 55 All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace.