The Quarterly review, Volume 27Murray, 1822 |
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... British interest therefore might be excited by the translation . We were a com- mercial people , -he presented the Lusiad as the epic poem of commerce ; and he recommended his work to the East India Com- pany , pany , by a preliminary ...
... British interest therefore might be excited by the translation . We were a com- mercial people , -he presented the Lusiad as the epic poem of commerce ; and he recommended his work to the East India Com- pany , pany , by a preliminary ...
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... British dy- nasties . Heyne , turning from the lyric to the epic , and cyclic bards , and going back from Pindar to Homer , perceived even in Hesiod , that * Pyth . iv . 159. - Heyn . Edit . D 2 the the chances of the metre and the ...
... British dy- nasties . Heyne , turning from the lyric to the epic , and cyclic bards , and going back from Pindar to Homer , perceived even in Hesiod , that * Pyth . iv . 159. - Heyn . Edit . D 2 the the chances of the metre and the ...
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... British com- mander marched off his troops , gave his prisoners in charge to the savages , and left them , with the wounded and the dying , to be tomahawked and roasted at the stake . ' A more infamous and detestable falsehood than this ...
... British com- mander marched off his troops , gave his prisoners in charge to the savages , and left them , with the wounded and the dying , to be tomahawked and roasted at the stake . ' A more infamous and detestable falsehood than this ...
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... British subjects : many of them were tried and convicted as deserters , and one was hung at Spithead ! When the United States captured the Macedonia , that vessel had a very considerable number of deserters from our service on board her ...
... British subjects : many of them were tried and convicted as deserters , and one was hung at Spithead ! When the United States captured the Macedonia , that vessel had a very considerable number of deserters from our service on board her ...
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... British settlers . By an act of Congress passed in the year 1819 , the master of every ship arriving in any of the ports of America is compelled to deliver in a list of the age , sex and occupation of each passenger . An abstract from ...
... British settlers . By an act of Congress passed in the year 1819 , the master of every ship arriving in any of the ports of America is compelled to deliver in a list of the age , sex and occupation of each passenger . An abstract from ...
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Page 268 - Plates. 5s. 130. GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE^ An Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in ; with an Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Art in Greece. By the EARL OF ABERDEEN, is. *«* The two preceding Works in One handsome VoL, half bound, entitled "ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE,
Page 320 - BINGHAM'S ANTIQUITIES OF' THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. New and Improved Edition, carefully revised, with an enlarged Index. 2 vols. Imp!. 8vo, cloth, I*. 11*. M. 1850 "Bingham is a writer who does equal honour to the English clergy and to the English nation, and whose learning is only to be equalled by his moderation and impartiality."— Quarterly Review.
Page 448 - This unlooked-for event depriving me of the co-operation of the fleet, without which the further prosecution of the service was become impracticable, I did not hesitate to arrest the course of the troops advancing to the attack, because the most complete success would have been unavailing, and the possession of the enemy's works offered no advantage to compensate for the loss we must have sustained in acquiring possession of them...
Page 120 - I cry hourly with feehler and feebler outcry to be delivered, it were enough to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling temptation ; to make him clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em To suffer WET DAMNATION to run thro
Page 67 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 459 - Account of an assemblage of fossil teeth and bones of elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, bear, tiger, and hyaena and sixteen other animals : discovered in a cave at Kirkdale, Yorkshire, in the year 1821 : with a comparative view of five similar caverns in various parts of England, and others on the Continent.
Page 496 - The very first Of human life must spring from woman's breast, Your first small words are taught you from her lips, Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs Too often breathed out in a woman's hearing, When men have shrunk from the ignoble care Of watching the last hour of him who led them.
Page 397 - Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah ! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes ! Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos, ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound.
Page 259 - ... the whole state, and makes its effect be felt on all ranks of people. At first, no alteration is perceived; by degrees the price rises, first of one commodity, then of another; till the whole at last reaches a just proportion with the new quantity of specie which is in the kingdom.
Page 506 - Flinging the billows back from my drench 'd hair, And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er The waves as they arose, and prouder still The loftier they uplifted me; and oft, In wantonness of spirit, plunging down Into their green and glassy gulfs, and making My way to shells and sea-weed, all unseen By those above, till they wax'd fearful; then Returning with my grasp full of such tokens As show'd that I had search 'd the deep: exulting With a far-dashing...