The London Quarterly Review, Volume 4Theodore Foster, 1811 |
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... circumstance which made the Prince of Brazil resolve upon retiring to his vast empire in Ame- rica , was the communication of the secret treaty of Fontainbleau from the English court . Had this measure been earlier resolved on , the act ...
... circumstance which made the Prince of Brazil resolve upon retiring to his vast empire in Ame- rica , was the communication of the secret treaty of Fontainbleau from the English court . Had this measure been earlier resolved on , the act ...
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... circumstance was noted in the Paris papers ; and in the spir . it of those writers who speak of the tempest which occurred at Cromwell's death as something supernatural , it was added that no sooner had the French flag been hoisted ...
... circumstance was noted in the Paris papers ; and in the spir . it of those writers who speak of the tempest which occurred at Cromwell's death as something supernatural , it was added that no sooner had the French flag been hoisted ...
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... circumstance , and to a superstition once so pre- valent , never obsolete , and so easy to be revived . The command of Alem - Tejo was given at this time to Kellerman , who has since rendered himself so infamous by his ediet in Spain ...
... circumstance , and to a superstition once so pre- valent , never obsolete , and so easy to be revived . The command of Alem - Tejo was given at this time to Kellerman , who has since rendered himself so infamous by his ediet in Spain ...
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... circumstance during the whole usurpation ; but the fact was , that what Junot resented was the slight shown to his own authority , not the injury done to the Portugueze . Alem - Tejo had little leisure to rejoice in this act of grace ...
... circumstance during the whole usurpation ; but the fact was , that what Junot resented was the slight shown to his own authority , not the injury done to the Portugueze . Alem - Tejo had little leisure to rejoice in this act of grace ...
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... , ' says that competent judge , ' under the circumstances This phrase is literally translated from the original blasphemy of the proclamation . in which it has taken place , is still more 1810 . 21 The Portugueze Observer .
... , ' says that competent judge , ' under the circumstances This phrase is literally translated from the original blasphemy of the proclamation . in which it has taken place , is still more 1810 . 21 The Portugueze Observer .
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Página 162 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 168 - IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Página 283 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have...
Página 290 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 290 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 282 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the muses sing of happy swains, Because the muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants...
Página 282 - THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Their country's beauty or .their nymphs...
Página 290 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 308 - The lovers' meeting : she beheld him faint. With tender fears, she took a nearer view, Her terrors doubling as her hopes withdrew ; He tried to smile, and, half succeeding, said, " Yes! I must die ;
Página 491 - Lord's vineyard, it is needful you should do that part of the work which we advise, at those times and places which we judge most for His glory.