A glance at London, Brussels, and Paris: by a provincial Scotsman1829 - 283 pagina's |
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Pagina 14
... dinner in one of the centre counties , I was not ill pleased to find a talkative , well intentioned sort of man haranguing the company about Mr. Owen's plans , deprecating the absence of religious motive in them , but affirming that he ...
... dinner in one of the centre counties , I was not ill pleased to find a talkative , well intentioned sort of man haranguing the company about Mr. Owen's plans , deprecating the absence of religious motive in them , but affirming that he ...
Pagina 19
... dinner to be given to the High Admiral , or whether Duchess S shall be admitted to the ensuing drawing room . In London , the people have an air of dexterity in every thing they go about . The business of life is de- spatched adroitly ...
... dinner to be given to the High Admiral , or whether Duchess S shall be admitted to the ensuing drawing room . In London , the people have an air of dexterity in every thing they go about . The business of life is de- spatched adroitly ...
Pagina 30
... dinner , thus addressed two young ladies whom he found in his dining - parlour : " Set your caps , misses - -set your caps ; for the young minister of Kirkavon is coming to dine with us to - day , and some one of you two must try to ...
... dinner , thus addressed two young ladies whom he found in his dining - parlour : " Set your caps , misses - -set your caps ; for the young minister of Kirkavon is coming to dine with us to - day , and some one of you two must try to ...
Pagina 31
... dinner , he then and there , for the first time , lifted his eyes upon these two daughters of human race , who were successively to become the wedded partners of his future happiness or misery . A tale of courtship is not intended here ...
... dinner , he then and there , for the first time , lifted his eyes upon these two daughters of human race , who were successively to become the wedded partners of his future happiness or misery . A tale of courtship is not intended here ...
Pagina 32
... dinner , to experience a wasty blank when the dining - room door closed on the beautiful phantom , as the female party withdrew ; and the distant notes of the harpsichord , touched by her fair hand , exasperated his tedium at the long ...
... dinner , to experience a wasty blank when the dining - room door closed on the beautiful phantom , as the female party withdrew ; and the distant notes of the harpsichord , touched by her fair hand , exasperated his tedium at the long ...
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Pagina 53 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Pagina 53 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Pagina 18 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Pagina 142 - That strain again ! — it had a dying fall : Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets, ( Stealing and giving odour !— Enough ; no more ; ( 'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
Pagina 49 - ... battle of Waterloo had done in arms !" We shall not stay to decide between the battle and the picture ; but the writer follows up the same idea of the Terrible Sublime in the Catalogue, the first paragraph of which is conceived in the following terms : — " The general effect proposed to be excited by this picture is the terrible sublime, and its various modifications, until lost in the opposite extremes of pity and horror, a sentiment which painting has so seldom attempted to awaken, that a...
Pagina 70 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Pagina 149 - England ; there is therefore a larger demand throughout for trinkets, ornaments, prints, pictures, and dress. The multitude of print-shops, of booths for millinery, and every thing that administers to the vanity of man and woman kind, is unequalled in this metropolis of gaiety. Much small business is transacted in the open air ; and the banks of the Seine are loaded with almost every saleable thing for human accommodation.
Pagina 150 - Paris; and pissed through some streets, if such they might be called, of a description that surpassed all my former ideas. The hideous darkness of eight stories mourned over-head ; and there seemed room for two carriages merely to graze each other in passing below. Truly a more continuous gloom I never witnessed. Any scene of horror, of however deep dye and terrible extent, mi^ht have taken place in this dismal abode.
Pagina 107 - There was soup made from boiled beef and turkey, with toasted bread floating in it; boiled carrots, and other vegetables, were handed round along with it. There followed a dish of bouilli, or boiled meat, tender and good.
Pagina 107 - Some boiled asparagus came after this, and other vegetables ; a sallad of lettuce, and something else, which I forget, dressed with a choice sauce ; a course of sweetmeats succeeded, and the whole concluded with well toasted cheese, and Strong ale of a peculiarly agreeable quality.