The Quarterly Review, Band 35William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, John Murray, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1827 |
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... Prome , when intelli- gence was received that Bandoola , with an army of sixty thousand fighting - men , a considerable train of artillery , and a body of Cassay horse , had reached Donabew . His musketeers were estimated at thirty ...
... Prome , when intelli- gence was received that Bandoola , with an army of sixty thousand fighting - men , a considerable train of artillery , and a body of Cassay horse , had reached Donabew . His musketeers were estimated at thirty ...
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... Prome , though , his historian says , ' starvation stared us in our face at every step we had proceeded . ' On the fourth day of their ad- vance , however , that is to say , on the 11th March , official intel- ligence < ligence was ...
... Prome , though , his historian says , ' starvation stared us in our face at every step we had proceeded . ' On the fourth day of their ad- vance , however , that is to say , on the 11th March , official intel- ligence < ligence was ...
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... Prome should not be occupied by British troops , it was answered , that the mili- tary occupation of that place could not be dispensed with . On arriving at the ridge of hills which cover Prome to the southward , each hill was found to ...
... Prome should not be occupied by British troops , it was answered , that the mili- tary occupation of that place could not be dispensed with . On arriving at the ridge of hills which cover Prome to the southward , each hill was found to ...
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... Prome , however , now afforded an asylum for the persecuted inhabitants , who poured in from every quarter with their families , cattle , waggons , and whatever property they might have saved out of the general wreck . The surrounding ...
... Prome , however , now afforded an asylum for the persecuted inhabitants , who poured in from every quarter with their families , cattle , waggons , and whatever property they might have saved out of the general wreck . The surrounding ...
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... Prome . On their march , however , through elephant - grass jungle , fifteen or twenty feet high , the men were so deluged with the wet , that cho- lera broke out among them , and carried off numerous victims . To add to the misery of ...
... Prome . On their march , however , through elephant - grass jungle , fifteen or twenty feet high , the men were so deluged with the wet , that cho- lera broke out among them , and carried off numerous victims . To add to the misery of ...
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Seite 354 - From his cradle, He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty, and sour, to them that lov'd him not; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Seite 455 - The martyr first, whose eagle eye Could pierce beyond the grave, Who saw his Master in the sky, And called on Him to save...
Seite 455 - A noble army — men and boys, The matron and the maid, Around the Saviour's throne rejoice, In robes of light arrayed. They climbed the steep ascent of Heaven, Through peril, toil, and pain. O God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train.
Seite 67 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Seite 417 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice : His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Seite 98 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Seite 355 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 537 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language ; still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names.
Seite 484 - You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and waken its dormant thunder. Such...
Seite 529 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook : And of those...