The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 páginas |
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... piece , and unfortunately effected his dia- bolical purpose . After the defeat of the French army , the deserters were all re- moved to Crown Point , which being afterwards suddenly in- vested and taken by the British army , the whole ...
... piece , and unfortunately effected his dia- bolical purpose . After the defeat of the French army , the deserters were all re- moved to Crown Point , which being afterwards suddenly in- vested and taken by the British army , the whole ...
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... piece of langrage shot . of with admiration by all who Captain Berry caught him in remember it . Captain Hallo- his arms as he was falling . The well , in the Swiftsure , as she was great effusion of blood occa- bearing down , fell in ...
... piece of langrage shot . of with admiration by all who Captain Berry caught him in remember it . Captain Hallo- his arms as he was falling . The well , in the Swiftsure , as she was great effusion of blood occa- bearing down , fell in ...
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... piece of eloquence this occasion , George Selwyn that had ever been heard in Ire- remarked that it was the only land . time he ever saw the fable real- ized - A lion put to flight by the braying of an ass . Richard Burke was once found ...
... piece of eloquence this occasion , George Selwyn that had ever been heard in Ire- remarked that it was the only land . time he ever saw the fable real- ized - A lion put to flight by the braying of an ass . Richard Burke was once found ...
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... piece , characteristic in his place , aloof and indepen- dent from the puny profligacy in his train , but far from idle and inactive , turning a malignant eye on all mischief that awaits him ; the multiplied apparatus of temporizing ...
... piece , characteristic in his place , aloof and indepen- dent from the puny profligacy in his train , but far from idle and inactive , turning a malignant eye on all mischief that awaits him ; the multiplied apparatus of temporizing ...
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... piece which justifies the remark that he attained by a felicity like instinct a style which perhaps will never be obsolete , and that were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what he com- posed at twenty , and what at ...
... piece which justifies the remark that he attained by a felicity like instinct a style which perhaps will never be obsolete , and that were we to judge only by the wording , we could not know what he com- posed at twenty , and what at ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 155 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 95 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 95 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Página 158 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Página 211 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 96 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Página 64 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 197 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Página 117 - ... 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 awaken its dormant thunder.
Página 169 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.