The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 8Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1816 |
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... French corporal , " though when he afterwards took part against the French , his countrymen , the very same wri- ters , and the very same people , spoke of him with the highest commendation , and the government gave him , by way of dou ...
... French corporal , " though when he afterwards took part against the French , his countrymen , the very same wri- ters , and the very same people , spoke of him with the highest commendation , and the government gave him , by way of dou ...
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... French king's ship , condemned at Brest , and purchased by the French East In- dia company . After making two voyages in their service , she was again condemned , and laid up as a hulk in the basin of L'Orient , from whence she was ...
... French king's ship , condemned at Brest , and purchased by the French East In- dia company . After making two voyages in their service , she was again condemned , and laid up as a hulk in the basin of L'Orient , from whence she was ...
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... French colonel , who was stationed on the poop , finding almost all his men slain , quitted that station with his surviving men , and retired upon the quarter deck . All this time our tops kept up an incessant and well directed fire ...
... French colonel , who was stationed on the poop , finding almost all his men slain , quitted that station with his surviving men , and retired upon the quarter deck . All this time our tops kept up an incessant and well directed fire ...
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... French colours . This was done to embarrass the Dutch in their design to deliver up that ship , and the manœuvre completely defeated the intention , as the French minister now claimed the prize . Soon after , taking advantage of a ...
... French colours . This was done to embarrass the Dutch in their design to deliver up that ship , and the manœuvre completely defeated the intention , as the French minister now claimed the prize . Soon after , taking advantage of a ...
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... French from the English . His influence was so great not only over the people , but the commandant of the place , that he was fa- miliarly called the " king of Brittany , " in which province L'Orient is situated . His request for the ...
... French from the English . His influence was so great not only over the people , but the commandant of the place , that he was fa- miliarly called the " king of Brittany , " in which province L'Orient is situated . His request for the ...
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Page 82 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 42 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a...
Page 524 - While Powers of mind almost of boundless range, Complete in kind — as various in their change, While Eloquence — Wit — Poesy— and Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness— long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! NOTES MONODY ON THE DEATH OF SHERIDAN.
Page 268 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Page 42 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Page 246 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Page 55 - ... tis a morn of May Round old Ravenna's clear-shown towers and bay. A morn, the loveliest which the year has seen, Last of the spring, yet fresh with all its green; For a warm eve, and gentle rains at night Have left a sparkling welcome for the light, And there's a crystal clearness all about; The leaves are sharp, the distant hills look out; A balmy briskness comes upon the breeze; The smoke goes dancing from the cottage trees; And when you listen, you may hear a coil Of bubbling springs about...
Page 104 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Page 41 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?