An Excursion to the Highlands of Scotland and the English Lakes: With Recollections, Descriptions, and References to Historical FactsJ. Mawman, 1805 - 291 pàgines |
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Pàgina 283 - ... daily lived at his board in the different manors and castles which he possessed in England : The military men allured by his munificence and hospitality, as well as by his bravery, were zealously attached to his interests, The people in general bore him an unlimited affection : His numerous retainers were more devoted to his will, than to the prince or to the laws : And he was the greatest, as well as the last, of those mighty barons, who formerly overawed the crown, and rendered the people incapable...
Pàgina 282 - King-maker, had distinguished himself by his gallantry in the field, by the hospitality of his table, by the magnificence, and still more by the generosity of his expense, and by the spirited and bold manner which attended him in all his actions. The undesigning frankness and openness of his character rendered his conquest over men's affections the more certain...
Pàgina 283 - ... genuine sentiments. No less than thirty thousand persons are said to have daily lived at his board in the different manors and castles which he possessed in England : the military men, allured by his munificence and hospitality, as well as by his bravery, were zealously attached to his interests. The people in general bore him an unlimited affection: his numerous retainers were more devoted to his will than to the prince or to the laws ; and he was the greatest, as well as the last of those mighty...
Pàgina 247 - STRANGER, pause, — for thee the day Smiling pours its cheerful ray, Spreads the lawn, and rears the bower, Lights the stream, and paints the flower. Stranger, pause, — with soften'd mind, Learn the sorrows of the blind ; Earth and seas, and varying skies, Visit not their cheerless eyes.
Pàgina 93 - The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes ; under which lies, unmolested, an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that is nasty.
Pàgina 280 - ... sway ; Whose rule the bad endure, the good obey ; Whose giant grasp o'er whirling spheres extends, Whose tender hand the insect-speck befriends ; Her voice of quiring worlds th' harmonious mode, And her high throne the bosom of her God.
Pàgina 282 - ... the spirited and bold manner which attended him in all his actions. The undesigning frankness and openness of his character rendered his conquest over men's affections the more certain and infallible : his presents were regarded as sure testimonies of esteem and friendship, and his professions as the overflowings of his genuine sentiments. No less than 30,000 persons are said to have daily lived at his board in the different manors and castles which he possessed in England : the military men,...
Pàgina 126 - The masters of the fairest and most wealthy climates of the globe turned with contempt from gloomy hills assailed by the winter tempest, from lakes concealed in a blue mist, and from cold and lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of naked barbarians.
Pàgina 279 - The friend of learning, freedom, truth, and man. His were the stores of letter'd time, comprest The mind of ages in a single breast ; The glance to catch, the patience to inquire, The sage's temper and the poet's fire. In him the wealth of Greece and Latium shone, Their Themis, Clio, Erato his own; And his, reveal'd in all their dazzling hues, The luscious charms of Asia's florid Muse. With her o'er Schiraz...
Pàgina 82 - Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorn'd the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the Cameleon, who can feast on air.