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Trang 189 - Boroughs," ibid. 1690, fol. reprinted 1704.' BRAHE (TYCHO), a very celebrated astronomer, de*scended from a noble and illustrious Danish family, was born in 1546 at Knudstorp, a small lordship near Helsingborg, in Scania. His father, Otto Brahe, having a large family, Tycho was educated under the care and at the expence of his uncle George Brahe, who, having no children, adopted him as his heir. Finding his nephew a boy of lively capacity, and though only...
Trang 90 - the rude outlines," as Mr. Malone remarks, " of thofc chara&ers." " But in this " piece there are no traits of the character of Polonius : " there is, indeed, a counfeHor, and he places himfelf in " the queen's chamber behind the arras ; but this is the " whole. The ghoft of the old Hamlet is likewife the *: offspring of our .author's creative imagination.
Trang 89 - Gerutha, or Gertrude, daughter of Ruric King of Denmark, by whom he had a fon called Amlettus, or Hamlet. Fengo murders his brother Horwendillus, marries Gertrude, and afcends the throne. Hamlet, to avoid his uncle's...
Trang 87 - She became extremely fond of folitude; and, when alone, indulged her grief in the moil bitter lamentations. She retained, to her laft moments, the moft unaffected attachment to her children in Denmark: with all the anxiety of a parent...
Trang 197 - Uraniburg, during the various learned and agreeable conversations which I there held with you, which even now affect my mind to such a degree, that it is difficult to decide, whether I recollect them with greater pleasure or admiration.
Trang 151 - ... find the caufe of this phenomenon, either in the poverty of the inhabitants of Iceland, which drove them to feek their fortunes in the neighbouring countries...
Trang 8 - ... and thicknefs of a pancake ; it is ufually made twice a year. I obferved a woman employed in preparing it : having placed over the fire a round iron plate...
Trang 28 - ... This wood is the moft demanded, becaufe no country produces it in fuch Quantities as this part of Norway. Each tree yields three pieces of timber, eleven or twelve feet in length, and is ufually fawed into three planks ; a tree generally requires feventy or eighty years growth before it arrives at the greateft perfection. The environs of Chriftiania not yielding fufficient planks for exportation, the greater part of the timber is hewn in the inland country, and floated down the rivers and cataracts....
Trang 9 - The cleareft weather is from the middle of June to the middle of July, and during the whole month of March. Winds are moft violent in the middle and latter end of April, May, and Q&ober.
Trang 177 - Fourth, and was fo called in honour of his father Frederic the Second. It is an enormous and motley pile of building, partly of red brick, and partly of ftone, partly Gothic, and partly .in the Grecian ftyle of architecture. It is built round three courts, each of which is N 2 furrounded furrounded by moats, and joined by bridges.