Mordaunt: Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality, المجلد 1G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800 - 460 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 96 - I expressed surprise to one person that they should have ventured to raise houses to such a height in a town so lately overthrown by an earthquake. ' It is because it has been so lately overthrown,' he replied, ' that we venture : for as other capitals in Europe deserve an earthquake as much as Lisbon...
الصفحة 13 - Thou trembleft ; and the whitenefs in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even fuch a man, fo faint, fo fpiritlefs, So dull, fo dead in look, fo woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd : But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'ft it.
الصفحة 265 - ... the air for joy. The moment was worth years of common life ! It does not fall to the share of many officers, even during a pretty long military career, to conduct an assault, or even to assist in taking a fortress by storm. Such dangerous services seldom occurred formerly, as the garrison generally capitulated after a breach was made. It has «been the fate of this -officer, though a young man, to con,duct two, and to prove successful in both.
الصفحة 275 - They rather choose to bear those ills they have Than fly to others that they know not of.
الصفحة 236 - I have the fulleft reliance, ,faid he was witnefs to the king's fhedding tears when one of his life-guards broke his leg by a fall from his horfe as he rode by his majefty's coach. He is faid to be very little acquainted with bufinefs, though he regularly fits in council, with the queen at his fide : and though his minifters are fuppofed to be...
الصفحة 76 - Clootz. * By chance !' exclaimed the other. ' Yes, unquestionably, by mere chance,' added Clootz. ' You have no notion of the power of chance.
الصفحة 35 - The mocking vote he gave in the convention was not prompted by revenge, or a wifh to take away the king's life, but merely to fave his own ; which, however, it did not fave ; for he was afterwards dragged to the guillotine by the very monfters who had forced him to vote for the death of the king. What may be thought the...
الصفحة 226 - Antony himfelf, had he been fo confined with Cleopatra, would have given the world to get rid of her. It is not probable that Philip would ever have thought of another woman if his firfl queen had lived : his forrow, on account of her death, however, did not prevent his marrying again.
الصفحة 267 - Highly esteemed by his brother officers, beloved by the soldiers, and enjoying the confidence of the general, who had succeeded in the military command, he had the misfortune not to please the viceroy ; in consequence of a representation from whom, to the surprise of every body, and of none more than the commander of the troops, he was recalled from his situation in Corsica. This seemed the more extraordinary, because, independent of the cool intrepidity, zeal for the service, and the professional...