Annual Register, Volume 44Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1803 - History |
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... empire soon saw its resources commensurate with the dangers which menaced it : fleets were set on foot ; the command given to officers of tried ability ability and experience , and in an incredibly short time 54 ANNUAL REGISTER , 1802 .
... empire soon saw its resources commensurate with the dangers which menaced it : fleets were set on foot ; the command given to officers of tried ability ability and experience , and in an incredibly short time 54 ANNUAL REGISTER , 1802 .
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... command in the East In- dies had , without a single excep- tion , given their opinions in favour of the principle of granting greater facilities to the free trade , which they considered as essential to the very primary interests of the ...
... command in the East In- dies had , without a single excep- tion , given their opinions in favour of the principle of granting greater facilities to the free trade , which they considered as essential to the very primary interests of the ...
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... command of admiral Mitchell , which was destined as a fleet of observation , to watch their motions in the West Indies . When the crews of these vessels understood that they were about to be sent thither , notwith- standing the war ...
... command of admiral Mitchell , which was destined as a fleet of observation , to watch their motions in the West Indies . When the crews of these vessels understood that they were about to be sent thither , notwith- standing the war ...
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... command of leut . col . Airey , of the 8th regiment of infantry , against an infinitely superior French force , has never yet come in a satisfactory form before the public . That island , of the utmost importance as a military station ...
... command of leut . col . Airey , of the 8th regiment of infantry , against an infinitely superior French force , has never yet come in a satisfactory form before the public . That island , of the utmost importance as a military station ...
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... command- ers of the army and fleet were couched in the most triumphant terms : complete success , and the reestablishment of the French power in the settlement , in a very short time , was by them confidently pro- mised . Whether the ...
... command- ers of the army and fleet were couched in the most triumphant terms : complete success , and the reestablishment of the French power in the settlement , in a very short time , was by them confidently pro- mised . Whether the ...
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Page 808 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 806 - Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn! Say, rush'd the bold eagle exultingly forth, From his home, in the dark rolling clouds of the north? Lo! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! Ah! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh.
Page 809 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 807 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 807 - Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold where he flies on his desolate path ! Now in darkness and billows he sweeps from my sight : Rise ! rise ! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight ! — 'Tis finished. Their thunders are hushed on the moors ; Culloden is lost, and my country deplores. But where is the iron-bound prisoner?
Page 806 - Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? ;Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood.
Page 718 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 809 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few, shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 805 - LOCHIEL, Lochiel ! beware of the day When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead' rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 806 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning ; no rider is there ; But its bridle is- red with the sign of despair. Weep Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead : For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave.