The lost manuscripts of a blue jacket [by R. Mainwaring]. |
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The Lost Manuscripts of a Blue Jacket [By R. Mainwaring] Rowland Mainwaring Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquainted adieu agreeable amusing apartments appear arranged arrived Baden Baron beautiful became Bishop of Metz called Carl Sandt Carlsruhe carriage Castellan Charles Chateau commenced daughter dear delightful Dinkey dinner door doubt Dowager Dresden Duchy Duke of Nassau Eilwagen Elbe Elector England English fair fancy florins following morning fortress Frankfort Frederic French French language gardens German Grand Duchess Grand Duke Groschen Grünen Winckel half happy Heidelberg honour horses inhabitants kind Kotzbue lady Lake Constance language Leipzic LETTER look luggage Mannheim ment military Neckar never night novelty occasion occupied ornamented palace Palatinate party passed person police poor poste postilions proceeded Prussia Prussian Thaler residence Rhine river round scarcely scene scenery Schloss Schwetzingen seat situated steamer stranger street Table d'hôte thought tion town truly Tübingen turned village Waghäusel whole worthy young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 273 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Seite 28 - There are rivers, whose course is longer, and whose volume of water is greater, but none which unites almost every thing that can render an earthly object magnificent and charming, in the same degree as the Rhine. As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Seite 217 - But that stands still on Sundays ; Woman's tongue needs no reviving Sabbath. And, besides, A mill, to give it motion, waits for grist ; Now, whether she has aught to say or no, A woman's tongue will go for exercise. In short, I came to this conclusion : Most earthly things have their similitudes, But woman's tongue is yet incomparable.
Seite 154 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Seite 28 - Roman conquests and defeats, of the chivalric exploits in the feudal periods, of the wars and negotiations of modern times, of the coronations of emperors, whose bones repose by its side; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble architecture of the middle ages; whose banks present every variety of wild and picturesque rocks, thick forests, fertile plains; vineyards, sometimes gently sloping, sometimes perched among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses...
Seite 169 - Strange cozenage! none would live past years again. Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain...
Seite ii - Let flames on your unlucky papers prey, Or moths through written pages eat their way ; Your wars, your loves, your praises be forgot ; And make of all an universal blot The rest is empty praise, an ivy crown, Or the lean statue of a mean renown.
Seite 216 - Right! I should beat her. You are very right; I have a sneaking kindness for the sex; And could I meet a reasonable woman, Fair without vanity, rich without pride, Discreet though witty, learn'd, yet very humble; That has no ear for flattery, no tongue For scandal; one who never reads romances; Who loves to listen better than to talk, And rather than be gadding would sit quiet, I'd marry, certainly.
Seite 18 - England ; but neither climate nor education promote it to the same extent as in America. From the earliest period of his life, a young American is accustomed to rely upon himself as the principal artificer of his fortune. Whatever he learns or studies is with a view to future application ; and the moment he leaves school he immerses into active life. His reputation, from the time he is able to think, is the object of his most anxious care ; as it must affect his future standing in society, and increase...
Seite 169 - for if the actor does not get his credit here, where will he get it? The ' Old Fellow ' [his customary way of alluding to Shakespeare] expressed it when he said ' the poor player that struts and frets his hour on the stage and then is heard no more.