The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volum 95Archibald Constable and Company, 1825 |
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Pàgina 5
... French language has been scarcely sufficient to enable me to read the Tales of Mercier , or the Fables of La Motte . I intend , however , speedily again to overhaul my intellectual character . I must examine , so to speak , how the ...
... French language has been scarcely sufficient to enable me to read the Tales of Mercier , or the Fables of La Motte . I intend , however , speedily again to overhaul my intellectual character . I must examine , so to speak , how the ...
Pàgina 19
... French renegado , who said that he never found himself on horseback , in the desert , without a sensation ap- proaching to rapture , almost inde- scribable . Our recollections of the heroes of former days are intimately associa- ted ...
... French renegado , who said that he never found himself on horseback , in the desert , without a sensation ap- proaching to rapture , almost inde- scribable . Our recollections of the heroes of former days are intimately associa- ted ...
Pàgina 25
... French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging parties , who dared scarcely venture five versts from their camps . " While abundance reigned in the camp ...
... French . They proved most ruinous to their enemies , by cutting off their resources of provisions , and attacking their foraging parties , who dared scarcely venture five versts from their camps . " While abundance reigned in the camp ...
Pàgina 26
... French army at Moscow , by tracing round it a con- tiguous circle . The militia of Tver was still in that town , so as to sustain Vintzingerode ; that of Yarosláf , posted at Porisláf - Zaleskoi , covered the road of Yarosláf ; that of ...
... French army at Moscow , by tracing round it a con- tiguous circle . The militia of Tver was still in that town , so as to sustain Vintzingerode ; that of Yarosláf , posted at Porisláf - Zaleskoi , covered the road of Yarosláf ; that of ...
Pàgina 27
... French post threw itself upon him . A white handkerchief which he held in his hand , in order to pass pour parlementaire , did not save him . As Colonel Boutourlin honestly remarks , " les ennemis ne pouvant raisonnablement avoir égard ...
... French post threw itself upon him . A white handkerchief which he held in his hand , in order to pass pour parlementaire , did not save him . As Colonel Boutourlin honestly remarks , " les ennemis ne pouvant raisonnablement avoir égard ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 547 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 134 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so...
Pàgina 547 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Pàgina 549 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ? Say, why is this?
Pàgina 69 - Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.
Pàgina 299 - Hark, his hands the lyre explore! Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Pàgina 299 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high To bitter Scorn a sacrifice And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try And hard Unkindness...
Pàgina 411 - If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him : and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
Pàgina 548 - With wondrous potency. Once more, good night, And when you are desirous to be blest, I'll blessing beg of you.
Pàgina 416 - A set o' dull conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college classes ! They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; An' syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o