Travels in France & Italy During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789Dent, 1915 - 373 pages |
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Page 46 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 207 - I forgot to observe that, for a few days past, I have been pestered with all the mob of the country shooting: one would think that every rusty gun in Provence is at work killing all sorts of birds ; the shot has fallen five or six times in my chaise and about my ears.
Page 329 - The enrolments for the militia, which the cahiers call an injustice without example1 were another dreadful scourge on the peasantry; and, as married men were exempted from it, occasioned in some degree that mischievous population which brought beings into the world in order for little else than to be starved. The...
Page 124 - Stockdale's shops at London are crowded, but they are mere deserts, compared to Desein's, and some others here, in which one can scarcely squeeze from the door to the counter.
Page 153 - ... party of dragoons drawn up before the market-cross to prevent violence. The people quarrel with the bakers, asserting the prices they demand for bread are beyond the proportion of wheat, and proceeding from words to scuffling, raise a riot, and then run away with bread and wheat for nothing : this has happened at Nangis, and many other markets ; the consequence was, that neither farmers nor bakers would supply them till they were in danger of starving, and, when they did come, prices under such...
Page 108 - I have passed for 300 miles lead to this spectacle ? What a miracle, that all this splendour and wealth of the cities in France should be so unconnected with the country...
Page 12 - The hameau contains an imitation of an English garden; the taste is but just introduced into France, so that it will not stand a critical examination. The most English idea I saw is the lawn in front of the stables; it is large, of a good verdure, and well kept, — proving clearly that they may have as fine lawns in the north of France as in England. The labyrinth is the only complete one I have seen, and I have no inclination to see another: it is in gardening what a rebus is in poetry.
Page 124 - The business going forward at present in the pamphlet shops of Paris is incredible. I went to the Palais Royal to see what new things were published, and to procure a catalogue of all. Every hour produces something new. Thirteen came out today, sixteen yesterday, and ninety-two last week.
Page 70 - ... there is a great approximation in the modes of living at present in the different countries of Europe. Amusements, in truth, ought to be numerous within doors; for, in such a climate, none are to be depended on without: the rain that has fallen here is hardly credible. I have, for five-and-twenty years past, remarked in England that I never was prevented by rain from taking a walk every day without going out while it actually rains; it may fall heavily for many hours, but a person who watches...