The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volum 24J. Dodsley, 1800 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 100.
Pàgina 6
... most immediate prefence of mind , in- ftantly manned all their boats ; and the officers and feamen with their ufual intrepidity , met , and grappled the fire - fhips ; and then , amidft the bursting of fhells . and all the horrors of a ...
... most immediate prefence of mind , in- ftantly manned all their boats ; and the officers and feamen with their ufual intrepidity , met , and grappled the fire - fhips ; and then , amidft the bursting of fhells . and all the horrors of a ...
Pàgina 17
... most spirited at- tacks , for a quarter of an hour . Finding himself at length over- powered , and no relief appearing , he ftill found means to carry off the remainder of his detachment , and even to fave the wounded ; nearly one ...
... most spirited at- tacks , for a quarter of an hour . Finding himself at length over- powered , and no relief appearing , he ftill found means to carry off the remainder of his detachment , and even to fave the wounded ; nearly one ...
Pàgina 21
... most flattering encomiums , from that commander to the Congrefs . The refult was , a public complimen- tary refolution of welcome from that body , highly applauding his zeal , and no lefs acknowledging his eminent fervices . To the ...
... most flattering encomiums , from that commander to the Congrefs . The refult was , a public complimen- tary refolution of welcome from that body , highly applauding his zeal , and no lefs acknowledging his eminent fervices . To the ...
Pàgina 32
... most of the living ftock of the island , particularly of the horned kind , perifhed . And re- putable and opulent families were , in common with the most indi- gent , expofed to the ftill unex- haufted fury of the tempeft , with , out ...
... most of the living ftock of the island , particularly of the horned kind , perifhed . And re- putable and opulent families were , in common with the most indi- gent , expofed to the ftill unex- haufted fury of the tempeft , with , out ...
Pàgina 34
... most of her crew , were happily faved . The Barbadoes and Victor floops of war , with the Cameleon , Scarborough , and La Blanche frigates , became like- wife , upon different services , and with a partial or total lofs of men and ...
... most of her crew , were happily faved . The Barbadoes and Victor floops of war , with the Cameleon , Scarborough , and La Blanche frigates , became like- wife , upon different services , and with a partial or total lofs of men and ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 142 - Ovid's metamorphoses were exhibited in confectionary ; and the splendid iceing of an immense historic plum-cake was embossed with a delicious basso-relievo of the destruction of Troy. In the afternoon, when she condescended to walk in the garden, the- lake was covered with Tritons and Nereids ; the pages of the family were converted into Wood-nymphs who peeped from every bower ; and the footmen gamboled over the lawns in the figure of Satyrs.
Pàgina 183 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Pàgina 326 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Pàgina 273 - March, 1767, upon lands, tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed ; and that a proportionable cefs, according to the ninth article of the treaty of union, be laid upon that part of Great Britain called Scot, wnd, 1,528,568!.
Pàgina 2 - Constantine we may contemplate a hero, who had so long inspired his subjects with love and his enemies with terror, degenerating into a cruel and dissolute monarch, corrupted by his fortune, or raised by conquest above the necessity of dissimulation.
Pàgina 202 - Unless sometime some crumbs fell to his share, Which in his wallet long, God wot, kept he, As on the which full daint'ly would he fare; His drink, the running stream, his cup, the bare Of his palm closed; his bed, the hard cold ground: To this poor life was Misery ybound.
Pàgina 215 - Venice, returned early in 1715, and was appointed one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the prince of Wales. In the first parliament of this reign he was elected for the borough of St.
Pàgina 172 - Gilds her accomplifh'd work the female frame, With rich luxuriance tender, fweetly wild, And juft between the woman and the child.
Pàgina 202 - Devising means how she may vengeance take, Never in rest, till she have her desire : But frets within so far forth with the fire Of wreaking flames, that now determines she To die by death, or veng'd by death to be.
Pàgina 164 - You cannot bar my conftant feet to " trace " The woods and lawns, by living ftream, " at eve^ " Let health my nerves and finer fibres "•brace, «' And I their toys to the great children " leave : " Of fancy, reafon, virtue, nought can