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... taken possession of by Colonel Wellesley on the 6th instant . Found it a continuation of the nullah which makes Shawe's post , but not so favourable in that part for keeping hold of . Directed a burnt village , on a rise above the ...
... taken possession of by Colonel Wellesley on the 6th instant . Found it a continuation of the nullah which makes Shawe's post , but not so favourable in that part for keeping hold of . Directed a burnt village , on a rise above the ...
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... taken up its ground , we shall have four field - pieces , at least , bearing upon that road ' ; when I shall have an opportunity of looking at it again . I will let you know whether they will be sufficient , and what will . " I have ...
... taken up its ground , we shall have four field - pieces , at least , bearing upon that road ' ; when I shall have an opportunity of looking at it again . I will let you know whether they will be sufficient , and what will . " I have ...
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... taken an oracle or an omen from it before he let loose his cavalry on the frightened multi- tude of Israel . But now it is a mere impediment to the erection of a May- pole , and will probably make way in the next revolution for the ...
... taken an oracle or an omen from it before he let loose his cavalry on the frightened multi- tude of Israel . But now it is a mere impediment to the erection of a May- pole , and will probably make way in the next revolution for the ...
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... taken the nightcaps from their heads or put their pipes in their mouths . This is the triumph of ærostation . So far as yet appears , Mr Green might have gone to Constantinople , Crim Tartary , or China without stopping , if his fowls ...
... taken the nightcaps from their heads or put their pipes in their mouths . This is the triumph of ærostation . So far as yet appears , Mr Green might have gone to Constantinople , Crim Tartary , or China without stopping , if his fowls ...
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... taken ; of the crews but few were captured . Alc . Still one ray of hope ! Kind Timandra , I thank thee . - But Anti- ochus ? Tim . Proved himself worthy of thy heart . His disgrace and his errors he was not able to- ( hesitates ) — Alc ...
... taken ; of the crews but few were captured . Alc . Still one ray of hope ! Kind Timandra , I thank thee . - But Anti- ochus ? Tim . Proved himself worthy of thy heart . His disgrace and his errors he was not able to- ( hesitates ) — Alc ...
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Page 439 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Page 169 - Toss the light ball — bestride the stick, (I knew so many cakes would make him sick !) With fancies buoyant as the thistle down, Prompting the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk, (He's got the scissors, snipping at your gown.) Thou pretty opening rose...
Page 520 - So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
Page 439 - Twas in the calm and silent night ! The senator of haughty Rome Impatient urged his chariot's flight, From lordly revel rolling home : Triumphal arches, gleaming, swell His breast with thoughts of boundless sway ; What recked the Roman what befell A paltry province far away, In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago?
Page 439 - How keen the stars, his only thought — The air how calm, and cold, and thin, In the solemn midnight Centuries ago ! Oh, strange indifference ! low and high Drowsed over common joys and cares ; The earth was still — but knew not why The world was listening, unawares. How calm a moment may precede One that shall thrill the world for ever ! To that still moment none would heed, Man's doom was linked no more to sever...
Page 520 - MAN, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
Page 439 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Page 520 - O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 400 - Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Page 10 - I had the honour to lend you the other night at play; and which I shall be much obliged to you if you will let me have some time either to-day or to-morrow. I am sir, Your most obedient, most humble servant, GEORGE TRENT.