Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.: with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von
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Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.: with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.
Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von
Great Britain -- Description and travel; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Descent in a diving-bell. Obliging fire. College of Surgeons. The false
mermaid. The sagacious ourang-outang. Extraordinary recovery. The living
skeleton. Fortune. The desperate lover. Salthill. Stoke Park. Dropmore.
Windsor Castle. Eton. St. Leonard's Hill. Windsor Park. Habits of George
the Fourth. The giraffe. Virginia Water. Lord and Lady H----. Character
of Lord Byron. Windsor Terrace. St. George's Chapel. Day dreams. English
promptitude. Military men of England. Frogmore. Anecdote of Canning.
Egham races. Dwarf trees. Moonlight walk. Respect for the law......177
LETTER XVIII.
What a park should be. Horses. Lady ----. Hatfield and Burleigh.
Doncaster Races. Pomp in the country. Duke of Devonshire's equipage.
Madame de Maintenon. Useless talents. York Minster. Library. Walk in the
city. Skeleton of a Roman lady. Clifford's Tower. The county jail.
Thieves' wardrobe. Ascent. Town-hall. Armorial bearings of citizens.
Madame de Maintenon. Archbishop's palace and kitchen-garden. Singular
absence of mind. Castle Howard. Pictures. The three Mary's. Painted
memoirs. English habits. Bad climate. Equine sagacity. Scarborough. The
rock-bridge. Light-house on Flamborough-head......188
LETTER XIX.
Whitby. What is remarkable in a Duke. The ruin. The Museum. Alum mines.
Lord Mulgrave's castle and park. Singular accident. Fountain's Abbey.
Studley Park. The Catacombs at Ripon. Harrowgate. The End of the World.
The old General. Aristocratical influence. Harewood park. Kennel.
Horses. Wooden curtains. Lord Harewood. Leeds. Reform in Parliament.
Cloth manufactory. Templenewsome. Rotherham. Disappointment. Wentworth
House. Portraits. Sheffield. Knives and scissars. Nottingham. Wild
beasts. Lord Middleton's seat. St. Albans Abbey. Duke of Gloucester's
tomb. Return to London......200
LETTER XX.
Excursion to Brighton. Arundel Castle. Petworth House. Portraits.
Hotspur's sword. Old 'Whalebone.' The fortunate duchess. 'Prognostica.'
Continuation of Don Juan. The year 2200. 'Etourderie.' Rules of
behaviour. English politicians. Charles Kemble's Falstaff. License of
English actors. Young as Hotspur. German and English stage. Wonders of
the age. 'Flirtation.' Singular ball. Macready's Macbeth. Thoughts on
the tragedy of Macbeth. Der Freischutz. 'Liaison' with a mouse. Street
mystifiers. Nights in London. Visit to Woolmers. Ball at Hatfield.
Pansanger. Grand Signor. Persian valuables......212
LETTER XXI.
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