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... officers , as in places which require a peculiar sufficiency , not to choose them which he affects most , but to use every one according to his proper fitness . " § Judged by which rule , the wisedome of this particular King - despite ...
... officers , as in places which require a peculiar sufficiency , not to choose them which he affects most , but to use every one according to his proper fitness . " § Judged by which rule , the wisedome of this particular King - despite ...
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... officer , that Nature had intended * Gay's Fables : The Owl , Swan , Cock , Spider , Ass , and Farmer . Peter Plymley's Letters , No. 2 . § Noctes Ambrosianæ , IV . 122 . Peter Pindar , Ode upon Ode . him for a lawyer , and that the ...
... officer , that Nature had intended * Gay's Fables : The Owl , Swan , Cock , Spider , Ass , and Farmer . Peter Plymley's Letters , No. 2 . § Noctes Ambrosianæ , IV . 122 . Peter Pindar , Ode upon Ode . him for a lawyer , and that the ...
Página 64
... officers , who dared not appear in Paris , and who were actually starving . It was amidst such a state of things that the news came - Heaven knows how , for , as far as any one could tell , it was on the wings of the wind - that the ...
... officers , who dared not appear in Paris , and who were actually starving . It was amidst such a state of things that the news came - Heaven knows how , for , as far as any one could tell , it was on the wings of the wind - that the ...
Página 65
... officers began to move about with deep anxiety on their weather- beaten countenances . They could no longer disguise their impatience . People began to leave off their work to listen . " Who will stop Bonaparte ? " old Goulden remarked ...
... officers began to move about with deep anxiety on their weather- beaten countenances . They could no longer disguise their impatience . People began to leave off their work to listen . " Who will stop Bonaparte ? " old Goulden remarked ...
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... officers drew their swords , and shouted " En avant ! " To do this with the least possible loss was to run , so the palisades and outworks were carried ; but even when in the orchards the fire from the houses and from behind garden ...
... officers drew their swords , and shouted " En avant ! " To do this with the least possible loss was to run , so the palisades and outworks were carried ; but even when in the orchards the fire from the houses and from behind garden ...
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Página 436 - O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises, 'midst the twilight path Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum...
Página 356 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
Página 290 - ... so much business in so short a time. Besides this body of regular troops, there are stragglers, who, without being duly listed and enrolled, do infinite mischief to those who are so unlucky as to fall into their hands.
Página 417 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man — This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 420 - To withdraw myself from myself (oh. that cursed selfishness !) has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all ; and publishing is also the continuance of the same object, by the action it affords to the mind, which else recoils upon itself.
Página 163 - And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
Página 440 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 166 - This tremendous explosion was followed by a silence not less awful : the firing immediately ceased on both sides ; and the first sound which broke the silence was the dash of her shattered masts and yards falling into the water from the vast height to which they had been exploded.
Página 161 - Like leviathans afloat Lay their bulwarks on the brine ; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime, As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death, And the boldest held his breath For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene, And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. "Hearts of oak!
Página 161 - Drew backward as before the offending part. The reeking entrails next he tore away, And to his meagre mastiffs made a prey. The pale assistants on each other stared, With gaping mouths for issuing words prepared : The still-born sounds upon the palate hung, And died imperfect on the faltering tongue.