Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 48W. Blackwood., 1840 - England |
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Page 71
... turned crowned the British arms , and the waves -when success had in a durable way of Gallic ambition had permanently re- ceded from the rocks of Torres Vedras their conduct was of a more reprehen- sible cast ; it became the fit subject ...
... turned crowned the British arms , and the waves -when success had in a durable way of Gallic ambition had permanently re- ceded from the rocks of Torres Vedras their conduct was of a more reprehen- sible cast ; it became the fit subject ...
Page 74
... turned to its conquest . A vast force under Marshal Macdonald and Suchet was thrown across its frontier , and the truggles began with appalling violence . " Macdonald was engaged during these operations in northern Catalonia in an ...
... turned to its conquest . A vast force under Marshal Macdonald and Suchet was thrown across its frontier , and the truggles began with appalling violence . " Macdonald was engaged during these operations in northern Catalonia in an ...
Page 76
... turned into rapidity , and the disappointments were to be known no more . The campaign of 1811 was the true com- mencement of British victory in the Peninsula . The battles fought in the earlier years of the war had ex- hibited the ...
... turned into rapidity , and the disappointments were to be known no more . The campaign of 1811 was the true com- mencement of British victory in the Peninsula . The battles fought in the earlier years of the war had ex- hibited the ...
Page 79
... turned them by the Truxillo road ; and Girard escaped only by throwing himself into rugged cliffs , where the British , encumbered with their arms , could not follow him . He joined Drouet , by de- vious mountain - paths , at Orellano ...
... turned them by the Truxillo road ; and Girard escaped only by throwing himself into rugged cliffs , where the British , encumbered with their arms , could not follow him . He joined Drouet , by de- vious mountain - paths , at Orellano ...
Page 80
... turned on the frontier fortress , brought up the powerful battering train , which he had prepared with such dexterous months before , and secrecy some opened his fire on the ramparts . After four days of this iron shower , the breach ...
... turned on the frontier fortress , brought up the powerful battering train , which he had prepared with such dexterous months before , and secrecy some opened his fire on the ramparts . After four days of this iron shower , the breach ...
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Page 197 - When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying. Have thou nothing to do with that just man : for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
Page 33 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 47 - But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight. Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Page 45 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 107 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 47 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was...
Page 432 - Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence : shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Page 268 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Page 356 - Greek, obedient to thy word, Shall form an ambush, or shall lift the sword? What cause have I to war at thy decree? The distant Trojans never injured me...
Page 167 - My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.