The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Τόμος 8Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1824 |
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... , to whose indefatigable attention and good dispositions the fortunate success of so important an operation was mainly at tributable . It was also owing to their benevolent and persevering efforts that many of the un- 6 ADMIRAL LORD KEITH .
... , to whose indefatigable attention and good dispositions the fortunate success of so important an operation was mainly at tributable . It was also owing to their benevolent and persevering efforts that many of the un- 6 ADMIRAL LORD KEITH .
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... success of our joint endeavours . " In a former despatch , Major - General Craig thus expressed himself : " My sense of the obligations I am under to Sir George Elphinstone is such as I should not do justice to in an attempt to express ...
... success of our joint endeavours . " In a former despatch , Major - General Craig thus expressed himself : " My sense of the obligations I am under to Sir George Elphinstone is such as I should not do justice to in an attempt to express ...
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... success , he ordered Lord Nelson to cruize to windward with three sail of the line , while he himself remained with the flag - ship and a small squadron at the mouth of the harbour . This judicious arrangement produced the capture of Le ...
... success , he ordered Lord Nelson to cruize to windward with three sail of the line , while he himself remained with the flag - ship and a small squadron at the mouth of the harbour . This judicious arrangement produced the capture of Le ...
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... successes , and confident of victory . Cannon and mortar batteries were placed on the heights , and the castle of Aboukir alone threatened destruc- tion to the assailants ; while the sand - hills still nearer to the water's edge were ...
... successes , and confident of victory . Cannon and mortar batteries were placed on the heights , and the castle of Aboukir alone threatened destruc- tion to the assailants ; while the sand - hills still nearer to the water's edge were ...
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... success . His second ap- pearance was at the same place , in the character of Bajazet ; in which he produced a ... successful as their original . About this time , Mr. Wilkinson , having taken the Edin- burgh theatre , Mr. Kemble ...
... success . His second ap- pearance was at the same place , in the character of Bajazet ; in which he produced a ... successful as their original . About this time , Mr. Wilkinson , having taken the Edin- burgh theatre , Mr. Kemble ...
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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.