The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 80Archibald Constable and Company, 1817 - English literature |
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... officers who were with me could not forbear expressing their discontent , observing , that , in America , no delicacy was shewn by the English , who took away all sorts of moveable property , setting fire not only to towns and to the ...
... officers who were with me could not forbear expressing their discontent , observing , that , in America , no delicacy was shewn by the English , who took away all sorts of moveable property , setting fire not only to towns and to the ...
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of officers and men . The ships met , and the advantage was disputed with great fortitude on each side for an hour and five minutes , when the gal- lant commander of the Drake fell , and victory declared in favour of the Ranger . His ...
of officers and men . The ships met , and the advantage was disputed with great fortitude on each side for an hour and five minutes , when the gal- lant commander of the Drake fell , and victory declared in favour of the Ranger . His ...
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... officer did not much relish the idea of his ship putting about or tacking with eddy winds in these narrows , nor of being dragged along by the power of horses , or of steam , yet he had no doubt as to the fitness of the naviga- tion for ...
... officer did not much relish the idea of his ship putting about or tacking with eddy winds in these narrows , nor of being dragged along by the power of horses , or of steam , yet he had no doubt as to the fitness of the naviga- tion for ...
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... officers of the revolutionary French army . A certain num- ber of them are henceforth to be attached to the different corps d'armée , and one half of the commissions which fall vacant in future , are to be distributed amongst them ...
... officers of the revolutionary French army . A certain num- ber of them are henceforth to be attached to the different corps d'armée , and one half of the commissions which fall vacant in future , are to be distributed amongst them ...
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... officers belonging to his Majesty's 73d regiment had proceeded on board the Iphigenia on that day to dine with the officers of the ship , and that on their return in the evening , the boat unfortunately upset , by which dis- tressing ...
... officers belonging to his Majesty's 73d regiment had proceeded on board the Iphigenia on that day to dine with the officers of the ship , and that on their return in the evening , the boat unfortunately upset , by which dis- tressing ...
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Page 439 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 361 - Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet a style.
Page 247 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above, Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass ; methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought: entranced in prayer....
Page 247 - Awake, my soul ! not only passive praise Thou owest ! not alone these swelling tears, Mute thanks and secret ecstasy ! Awake, Voice of sweet song ! Awake, my Heart, awake ! Green. Vales and icy Cliffs, all join my Hymn.
Page 247 - Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star In his steep course? So long he seems to pause On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC! The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 247 - A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ever poised himself. The hills are heathy, save that swelling slope, Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on, All golden with the never-bloomless furze, Which now blooms most profusely: but the dell, Bathed by the mist, is fresh and delicate As vernal corn-field, or the unripe flax, When, through its half-transparent stalks, at eve, The level sunshine glimmers with green light.
Page 358 - Their own dire agents, and constrain the good To acts which they abhor ; though I bewail This triumph, yet the pity of my heart Prevents me not from owning that the law By which mankind now suffers, is most just. For by superior energies, more strict Affiance in each other, faith more firm In their unhallowed principles, the bad Have fairly earned a victory o'er the weak, The vacillating, inconsistent good.
Page 248 - And now beloved Stowey ! I behold Thy church-tower, and methinks, the four huge elms Clustering, which mark the mansion of my friend; And close behind them, hidden from my view, Is my own lowly cottage, where my babe And my babe's mother, dwell in peace...
Page 437 - J'ai conçu pour mon crime une juste terreur. J'ai pris la vie en haine, et ma flamme en horreur. Je voulais en mourant prendre soin de ma gloire, Et dérober au jour une flamme si noire.
Page 358 - Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring...