The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Τόμος 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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Σελίδα iii
... British literature . It will at once be seen that the entire Memoirs of Mr. Ricardo , Sir Henry Raeburn , and Mr. Shaw Lefevre , are from much more able pens than his own . The Memoirs of Mr. Kemble , Mrs. Radcliffe , Mr. Bloomfield ...
... British literature . It will at once be seen that the entire Memoirs of Mr. Ricardo , Sir Henry Raeburn , and Mr. Shaw Lefevre , are from much more able pens than his own . The Memoirs of Mr. Kemble , Mrs. Radcliffe , Mr. Bloomfield ...
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... British service , was now engaged in a project of no small importance . While the south of France had been a prey by turns to terror , and to insurrection , the combined fleets of England and Spain menaced her departments in that ...
... British service , was now engaged in a project of no small importance . While the south of France had been a prey by turns to terror , and to insurrection , the combined fleets of England and Spain menaced her departments in that ...
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... British admiral . " Notwithstanding these professions , a large portion of the people , and also of the sailors , was not a little mortified at the idea of such a surrender . Rear - Admiral Trogoff , indeed , declared in favour of the ...
... British admiral . " Notwithstanding these professions , a large portion of the people , and also of the sailors , was not a little mortified at the idea of such a surrender . Rear - Admiral Trogoff , indeed , declared in favour of the ...
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... British and Spanish troops , with which he marched out , put the enemy to the rout , and seized their artillery , ammunition , horses , and two stands of colours . On the first of October , the combined British , Spanish , and ...
... British and Spanish troops , with which he marched out , put the enemy to the rout , and seized their artillery , ammunition , horses , and two stands of colours . On the first of October , the combined British , Spanish , and ...
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... British commanders to proceed without any hesitation . For this service the Vice - Admiral prepared a gun - boat , armed the launches of the fleet with heavy carronades , landed two battalions of seamen , about 1000 strong , in addition ...
... British commanders to proceed without any hesitation . For this service the Vice - Admiral prepared a gun - boat , armed the launches of the fleet with heavy carronades , landed two battalions of seamen , about 1000 strong , in addition ...
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Σελίδα 36 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate...
Σελίδα 45 - His transport's most impetuous tone, And to each passion of his breast The graces gave their zone. High were the task — too high, Ye conscious bosoms here ! In words to paint your memory Of Kemble and of Lear; But who forgets that white discrowned head, Those bursts of reason's half-extinguish'd glare — Those tears upon Cordelia's bosom shed, In doubt more touching than despair, If 'twas reality he felt?
Σελίδα 55 - Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his.
Σελίδα 420 - LL.D., Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Cambridge.
Σελίδα 198 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Σελίδα 35 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany .old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.
Σελίδα 45 - For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Σελίδα 93 - His figure was striking, but not so from grace ; it was tall, and, though extremely thin, his limbs were large and uncouth, and as he stalked along, wrapt in the black garments of his order, there was something terrible in its air ; something almost superhuman.
Σελίδα 471 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Σελίδα 117 - Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.