The Quarterly Review, Band 14William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1816 |
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... Italy ; and we were convinced that Elba was the place , of all others , in which Napoleon could the most conveniently intrigue , and from which he could most effectually put his intrigues into practice - but we did not think , we ...
... Italy ; and we were convinced that Elba was the place , of all others , in which Napoleon could the most conveniently intrigue , and from which he could most effectually put his intrigues into practice - but we did not think , we ...
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... Italy . At Esling I was master of Austria . That Archduke thought to stop me . He published I know not what .-- My army had already advanced a league and a half before I did him the honour to make any dispositions , and it is well known ...
... Italy . At Esling I was master of Austria . That Archduke thought to stop me . He published I know not what .-- My army had already advanced a league and a half before I did him the honour to make any dispositions , and it is well known ...
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... Italy and idol of France , he was still unsatisfied . Egypt conquered , he must attempt Syria- but the dull difficulties or sullen successes of the desert wearied him , and he hastened back to France . New wars begun and ended with a ...
... Italy and idol of France , he was still unsatisfied . Egypt conquered , he must attempt Syria- but the dull difficulties or sullen successes of the desert wearied him , and he hastened back to France . New wars begun and ended with a ...
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... to confirm the opinion , that the Pelasgians were the original inhabitants of Greece and Italy , in contra- contradiction to the fanciful hypothesis , that they were an 101 Jamieson and Townsend on Ancient Languages . ОCT .
... to confirm the opinion , that the Pelasgians were the original inhabitants of Greece and Italy , in contra- contradiction to the fanciful hypothesis , that they were an 101 Jamieson and Townsend on Ancient Languages . ОCT .
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... Italy , it has been said that every tenth person is a beggar . Societies for the suppression of beggars , for the relief of occa- sional distress , and for the encouragement of industry among the poor , have been eminently successful in ...
... Italy , it has been said that every tenth person is a beggar . Societies for the suppression of beggars , for the relief of occa- sional distress , and for the encouragement of industry among the poor , have been eminently successful in ...
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Seite 201 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Seite 210 - When soft! — the dusky trees between, And down the path through the open green, Where is no living thing to be seen ; And through yon gateway, where is found, Beneath the arch with ivy bound, Free entrance to the church-yard ground...
Seite 208 - Further, it is the language of men who speak of what they do not understand; who talk of Poetry as of a matter of amusement and idle pleasure; who will converse with us as gravely about a taste for Poetry, as they express it, as if it were a thing as indifferent as a taste for rope-dancing, or Frontiniac or Sherry.
Seite 433 - Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it ; Thou shall love thy neighbour, as thyself.
Seite 288 - We are content with discord, we are content with alarms, we are content with blood, but we will never be content with a master.
Seite 208 - Poet, and too feeble to grapple with him; men who take upon them to report of the course which he holds whom they are utterly unable to accompany, — confounded if he turn quick upon the wing, dismayed if he soar steadily into
Seite 394 - Lataniers, conversed together for the last time ; and where the old man, at the sight of the Southern Cross, warns them that it is time to separate !"— DE HUMBOLDT'S Travels.
Seite 478 - And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Seite 231 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....