The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 5Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1845 - American literature |
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... army one vast wilderness . The same feeling comes over us when we follow Na- poleon , for a time the scourge of Europe , in his disastrous expedition against Russia with one of the largest armies that have ever taken the field in modern ...
... army one vast wilderness . The same feeling comes over us when we follow Na- poleon , for a time the scourge of Europe , in his disastrous expedition against Russia with one of the largest armies that have ever taken the field in modern ...
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... army , provided with sacks , followed his example , and by bivouacking for three days in the neighborhood under aggression , they com- pletely attained their object in destroying them . In fact , the preservation of an entire province ...
... army , provided with sacks , followed his example , and by bivouacking for three days in the neighborhood under aggression , they com- pletely attained their object in destroying them . In fact , the preservation of an entire province ...
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... army into Bokhara , which was brought about by the agency of another remarkable individual . Of the tribes which inhabit the Khanat , the Tajiks are considered the most ancient . They are said to have been the first immi- grants from ...
... army into Bokhara , which was brought about by the agency of another remarkable individual . Of the tribes which inhabit the Khanat , the Tajiks are considered the most ancient . They are said to have been the first immi- grants from ...
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... the obstinate partizan of any faction . Intrusted at length with the command of an immense gang , without jackets or shoes , but ready to fight for both , he had been able to make it into an army ; and soon 84 [ MAY , THE FRENCH LAKE . '
... the obstinate partizan of any faction . Intrusted at length with the command of an immense gang , without jackets or shoes , but ready to fight for both , he had been able to make it into an army ; and soon 84 [ MAY , THE FRENCH LAKE . '
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... army now crossed therefore , of course , the more sure to suc- the intervening tract of sand by a painful ceed . Might he en passant , take Malta ? march , reached the Nile , and ascended its The Directory faintly objected , that Malta ...
... army now crossed therefore , of course , the more sure to suc- the intervening tract of sand by a painful ceed . Might he en passant , take Malta ? march , reached the Nile , and ascended its The Directory faintly objected , that Malta ...
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Page 504 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 519 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 169 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. 17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
Page 279 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 279 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 504 - A brighter wash; to curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs; Nay oft, in dreams, invention we bestow, To change a flounce or add a furbelow.
Page 125 - Of woods decaying, never to be decayed, The stationary blasts of waterfalls, And in the narrow rent at every turn Winds thwarting winds, bewildered and forlorn, The torrents shooting from the clear blue sky, The rocks that muttered close upon our ears, Black drizzling crags that spake by the wayside As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings...
Page 329 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 279 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 8 - Complete Collection of the Treaties and Conventions, and Reciprocal Regulations, at present subsisting between Great Britain and Foreign Powers, and of the Laws, Decrees, and Orders in Council concerning the same, so far as they relate to Commerce and Navigation...