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... admiral's ship , where he died on the 28th , and was interred under the castle of St. Elmo , in La Valetta , in the island of Malta . The following just and ad- mired tribute to his memory was contained in the despatch from lord ...
... admiral's ship , where he died on the 28th , and was interred under the castle of St. Elmo , in La Valetta , in the island of Malta . The following just and ad- mired tribute to his memory was contained in the despatch from lord ...
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... admiral Coligny and the prince of Conde were so shocked at his cruelties that the government of Lyons was taken from him ; and , piqued at this , Des Adrets was upon the point of turning Catholic ; but he was seized at Romans , and ...
... admiral Coligny and the prince of Conde were so shocked at his cruelties that the government of Lyons was taken from him ; and , piqued at this , Des Adrets was upon the point of turning Catholic ; but he was seized at Romans , and ...
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... admiral of the Persian In the Chophora , the deed which forms the subject fleet . To this brother our poet was , upon a parti- of the former play is visited with a just , though unna- cular occasion , obliged for saving his life . Elian ...
... admiral of the Persian In the Chophora , the deed which forms the subject fleet . To this brother our poet was , upon a parti- of the former play is visited with a just , though unna- cular occasion , obliged for saving his life . Elian ...
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... admirals Blake and Dean in the command at sea , and it may be enough to state that upon the depo- in which service on the 2d of June 1653 he contri - sition of Richard Cromwell the general was the buted greatly by his courage and ...
... admirals Blake and Dean in the command at sea , and it may be enough to state that upon the depo- in which service on the 2d of June 1653 he contri - sition of Richard Cromwell the general was the buted greatly by his courage and ...
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... admiral of the fleet with prince Rupert , and distinguished himself with great bravery against the Dutch . The many hardships and fatigues he had undergone in a military life now began to affect his constitution , so that in his ...
... admiral of the fleet with prince Rupert , and distinguished himself with great bravery against the Dutch . The many hardships and fatigues he had undergone in a military life now began to affect his constitution , so that in his ...
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Page 356 - I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred...
Page 337 - I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some illadvised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken the last farewell of my few friends ; my chest was on the road to Greenock ; I had composed the last song I should ever measure in Caledonia—" The gloomy night is gathering fast,
Page 33 - The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness : it neither found them nor made them equal. She always remembered her own rank, and thought herself entitled to treat with very little ceremony the tutor of her son. Rowe's ballad of The Despairing Shepherd is said to have been written, either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair; and it is certain that Addison has left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love.
Page 210 - Ghost, which though it might have astonished, it had not provoked him ? for you may observe that in this beautiful speech, the passion never rises beyond an almost breathless astonishment, or an impatience, limited by filial reverence...
Page 34 - It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harshness and severity of diction; he is therefore sometimes verbose in his transitions and connections, and sometimes descends too much to the language of conversation; yet if his language had been less idiomatical it might have lost somewhat of its genuine Anglicism.
Page 351 - But, alas ! we all remember the poetry of Cowley at ten, and Pope at twelve ; and so far from hearing, with any degree of surprise, that very poor verses were written by a youth from his leaving school to his leaving college inclusive, we really believe this to be the most common...
Page 359 - I begged him, however, to proceed with things of more consequence ; he then continued, 'Oh, my poor dear child! my dear Ada ; my God, could I but have seen her ! give her my blessing — and my dear sister Augusta and her children; — and you will go to lady Byron, and say • tell her everything, — you are friends with her.
Page 356 - It is the hush of night, and all between Thy margin and the mountains, dusk, yet clear, Mellow'd and mingling, yet distinctly seen. Save darken'd Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Page 34 - outsteps the modesty of nature," nor raises merriment or wonder by the violation of truth. His figures neither divert by distortion nor amaze by aggravation. He copies life with so much fidelity that he can be...
Page 337 - I was thinking of indenting myself for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for Hungry ruin had me in the wind.