The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Τόμος 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... employed on the American station , under Admiral Digby . While there , H. R. H. Prince William Henry ( now Duke of Clarence ) , then a midshipman in the Prince George , being desirous of a more active life than he spent at New York , re ...
... employed on the American station , under Admiral Digby . While there , H. R. H. Prince William Henry ( now Duke of Clarence ) , then a midshipman in the Prince George , being desirous of a more active life than he spent at New York , re ...
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... employed in the blockade of the Spanish . fleet , consisting of twenty - two ships of the line , until the 4th May 1799 , when he discovered the Brest fleet , consisting of twenty - four sail of the line and nine smaller vessels , which ...
... employed in the blockade of the Spanish . fleet , consisting of twenty - two ships of the line , until the 4th May 1799 , when he discovered the Brest fleet , consisting of twenty - four sail of the line and nine smaller vessels , which ...
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... employed upon this occasion : 1. Foudroyant 80 . 2. Ajax . 80 . 3. Tigre 4. Swiftsure Admiral Lord Keith . John Elphinstone , Captain of the fleet . Capt . J. C. Searle . Capt . the Hon . A. Cochrane . 80. Capt . Sir W. Sidney Smith ...
... employed upon this occasion : 1. Foudroyant 80 . 2. Ajax . 80 . 3. Tigre 4. Swiftsure Admiral Lord Keith . John Elphinstone , Captain of the fleet . Capt . J. C. Searle . Capt . the Hon . A. Cochrane . 80. Capt . Sir W. Sidney Smith ...
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... employed to throw shells , and several vessels of a small draught of water presented their broadsides so as to protect and facilitate this very important and critical operation . Opposed to these was a large body of troops , familiar ...
... employed to throw shells , and several vessels of a small draught of water presented their broadsides so as to protect and facilitate this very important and critical operation . Opposed to these was a large body of troops , familiar ...
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... employed without intermission ; and have submitted to many privations , with a cheerfulness and patience highly creditable to them , and advantageous to the public service . " In a subsequent dispatch , the General recurs to the ...
... employed without intermission ; and have submitted to many privations , with a cheerfulness and patience highly creditable to them , and advantageous to the public service . " In a subsequent dispatch , the General recurs to the ...
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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.