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... China , to George the Third , King of Great Britain , & c . & c . & c . in the year 1794. Translated into English Verse from the original Chinese Poetry . With Notes by various Persons of Eminence , and by the Translator . By the Author ...
... China , to George the Third , King of Great Britain , & c . & c . & c . in the year 1794. Translated into English Verse from the original Chinese Poetry . With Notes by various Persons of Eminence , and by the Translator . By the Author ...
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... Chinese , to condemn that mean and paltry manner which Kent introduced ; which Southcote , Hamilton , and Brown followed , and which , to our national disgrace , is called the English style of gardening . He shews the poverty of this ...
... Chinese , to condemn that mean and paltry manner which Kent introduced ; which Southcote , Hamilton , and Brown followed , and which , to our national disgrace , is called the English style of gardening . He shews the poverty of this ...
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... Chinese Virtù , And spread their lustre in so broad a blaze , 5 That Kings themselves are dazzled , while they gaze : O let the Muse attend thy march sublime , And with thy prose caparison her rhyme ; Teach Verse 2. Cynosure of British ...
... Chinese Virtù , And spread their lustre in so broad a blaze , 5 That Kings themselves are dazzled , while they gaze : O let the Muse attend thy march sublime , And with thy prose caparison her rhyme ; Teach Verse 2. Cynosure of British ...
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... Chinese author of great antiquity , " thrive best in low , moist situations ; many on hills and mountains ; some require a rich soil ; but others will grow on clay , in sand , or even upon rocks , and in the water to fome a funny ...
... Chinese author of great antiquity , " thrive best in low , moist situations ; many on hills and mountains ; some require a rich soil ; but others will grow on clay , in sand , or even upon rocks , and in the water to fome a funny ...
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... Chinese , or Sir William says it for them ) affords us but few materials to work with . Plants , ground , and water , are her only productions ; and , though both the forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree ...
... Chinese , or Sir William says it for them ) affords us but few materials to work with . Plants , ground , and water , are her only productions ; and , though both the forms and arrangements of these may be varied to an incredible degree ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Bard Behold bold breath Britain CANTO charms Chinese Cicero court Doctor dread Dublin E'en Earl EDMUND MALONE Emperor Emperor of China ev'ry eyes Faction fame fancy fate fear Folly Folly's fond George George Baker Godwin grace Grattan hand head heart HENRY GRATTAN Heroic Epistle Hibernian honour imperial Ireland Jacobin King ladies late learned liberty Licentiato Lord Lord William Gordon Minister MOCK-HEROIC MOCK-HEROIC POEM modern Muse ne'er never Note communicated o'er Oberea Panurge Patrick Duigenan patriot peace Pelham Philosopher Pinna Pitt Pitt's Plato Poet poetical political pow'r praise pride prose rage reader reign round sacred Satire sense shade shew shore Sir William Chambers song soul STANZA sweet T. T. Vol taste tears thee thou thought thro Tonadillas Translator truth Verse virtue voice wonder words write Zingari
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Seite 189 - As broad and general as the unbounded sun ! No narrow bigot he ; — his reason'd view Thy interests, England, rank with thine, Peru ! France at our doors, he sees no danger nigh, But heaves for Turkey's woes the impartial sigh ; A steady Patriot of the World alone, The Friend of every Country — but his own.
Seite 216 - The indignation raised by cruelty and injustice, and the desire of having it punished, which persons unconcerned would feel, is by no means malice. No, it is resentment against vice and wickedness : it is one of the common bonds, by which society is held together; a fellow-feeling, which each individual has in behalf of the whole species, as well as of himself.
Seite 202 - Couriers and Stars, Sedition's evening host, Thou Morning Chronicle and Morning Post, Whether ye make the Rights of Man your theme, Your country libel, and your God blaspheme, Or dirt on private worth and virtue throw, Still blasphemous or blackguard, praise LEPAUX. " And ye five other wandering bards, that move In sweet accord of harmony and love, COLERIDGE and SOUTHEY, LLOYD, and LAMB and Co. Tune all your mystic harps to praise LEPAUX ! " PRIESTLEY and WAKEFIELD, humble, holy men, Give praises...
Seite 194 - Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the candid friend...
Seite 11 - Here too they conceal in cavities, on the summits of the highest mountains, founderies, lime-kilns, and glass-works, which send forth large volumes of flame, and continued columns of thick smoke, that give to these mountains the appearance of Volcanos." Page 37. " Here the passenger from time to time is surprized with repeated shocks of electrical impulse; the earth trembles under him by the power of confined air,
Seite 202 - BUONAPARTE'S victor fleet protect The genuine Theo-philanthropic sect, — The sect of MARAT, MIRABEAU, VOLTAIRE, — Led by their Pontiff, good LA REVEILLERE. Rejoiced our CLUBS shall greet him, and install The holy Hunchback in thy dome, St. Paul ! While countless votaries thronging in his train, Wave their red caps, and hymn this jocund strain: " Couriers and Stars, Sedition's evening host, Thou Morning Chronicle...
Seite 191 - The dawdling balance dangling in her hand, Adjusting punishments to fraud and vice, With scrupulous quirks, and disquisition nice :— . But firm, erect, with keen reverted glance, The...
Seite 247 - Business and ambition take up men's thoughts too much to leave room for philosophy : but if you speak to women in a style and manner proper to approach them, they never fail to improve by your counsels.
Seite 382 - Boileau: Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother.
Seite 13 - Our sons some slave of greatness may behold, Cast in the genuine Asiatic mould : Who of three realms shall condescend to know No more than he can spy from Windsor's brow...