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الصفحة 649
George , too , was the last of five British sovereigns who sat to him for their
portraits , and were all outlived by him . Employment thus protracted , and
popularity so constant , of course , begot a circle of acquaintances equally
extensive , and a ...
George , too , was the last of five British sovereigns who sat to him for their
portraits , and were all outlived by him . Employment thus protracted , and
popularity so constant , of course , begot a circle of acquaintances equally
extensive , and a ...
الصفحة 678
When our troops were forced to evacuate Toulon , the occupation of some fort
immediately became as necessary for our naval as our military interests , and an
offer of annexing Corsica to the British crown was most opportunely made at the ...
When our troops were forced to evacuate Toulon , the occupation of some fort
immediately became as necessary for our naval as our military interests , and an
offer of annexing Corsica to the British crown was most opportunely made at the ...
الصفحة 681
The invasion of Spain by Bonaparte had proceeded with all the rapid dexterity for
which that great general was celebrated ; Madrid was in his hands , and the
British troops already on the Continent , had retreated before Marshal Soult ,
when ...
The invasion of Spain by Bonaparte had proceeded with all the rapid dexterity for
which that great general was celebrated ; Madrid was in his hands , and the
British troops already on the Continent , had retreated before Marshal Soult ,
when ...
الصفحة 697
... a negotiation with Sweden , by the terms of which that power and Denmark
united to remove all restrictions from the British trade in the Baltic . Before these
difficulties were composed , Sir Hyde Parker was recalled from active duty , and
Lord ...
... a negotiation with Sweden , by the terms of which that power and Denmark
united to remove all restrictions from the British trade in the Baltic . Before these
difficulties were composed , Sir Hyde Parker was recalled from active duty , and
Lord ...
الصفحة 711
It was reserved for her honour to carry the fame of the British fleet far beyond the
reputation which the most popular of her predecessors had been able to attain for
it , and the many glorious exploits which confirmed the wisdom of those designs ...
It was reserved for her honour to carry the fame of the British fleet far beyond the
reputation which the most popular of her predecessors had been able to attain for
it , and the many glorious exploits which confirmed the wisdom of those designs ...
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الصفحة 624 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 601 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons: to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
الصفحة 624 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
الصفحة 834 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve ; And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind ! we are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
الصفحة 623 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
الصفحة 668 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
الصفحة 667 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
الصفحة 545 - No more the Grecian muse unrivall'd reigns, To Britain let the nations homage pay : She felt a Homer's fire in Milton's strains, A Pindar's rapture in the lyre of Gray.
الصفحة 883 - A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
الصفحة 511 - Unblam'd through life, lamented in thy end ; These are thy honours ! not that here thy bust Is mix'd with heroes, or with kings thy dust ; But that the worthy and the good shall say, Striking their pensive bosoms — Here lies Gay...