The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Band 19Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1835 |
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... command under Sir George Rodney ; and on the 8th of January , 1780 , had the good fortune to fall in with a Spanish convoy of 16 sail , escorted by a 64 , four frigates , and two corvettes , which were every one captured . * Nor was ...
... command under Sir George Rodney ; and on the 8th of January , 1780 , had the good fortune to fall in with a Spanish convoy of 16 sail , escorted by a 64 , four frigates , and two corvettes , which were every one captured . * Nor was ...
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... command of Sir J. Saumarez . Owing to being becalmed in the ofting , on the 6th of July , the Su- perb was not in the action before Algesiras , but he was a principal actor in the engagement which followed . Having lost all chance of ...
... command of Sir J. Saumarez . Owing to being becalmed in the ofting , on the 6th of July , the Su- perb was not in the action before Algesiras , but he was a principal actor in the engagement which followed . Having lost all chance of ...
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... command of Lord Nelson ; by whom he was despatched to demand satisfaction from the Dey of Algiers , for having dismissed Mr. Falcon , the British Vice - Consul , from his dominions ; a service which he per- formed most ably and ...
... command of Lord Nelson ; by whom he was despatched to demand satisfaction from the Dey of Algiers , for having dismissed Mr. Falcon , the British Vice - Consul , from his dominions ; a service which he per- formed most ably and ...
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... command of the immense armament which sailed for that purpose . Our limits will not allow us to dwell upon this unfortunate affair ; we therefore proceed to state , that he quitted the Superb , and was next appointed in the Milford , 74 ...
... command of the immense armament which sailed for that purpose . Our limits will not allow us to dwell upon this unfortunate affair ; we therefore proceed to state , that he quitted the Superb , and was next appointed in the Milford , 74 ...
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... command of poetical lan- guage , and facility of versification , which at a later period were so fully exhibited in his works . This did not , how- ever , prevent him from paying strict attention to his military duties , or from ...
... command of poetical lan- guage , and facility of versification , which at a later period were so fully exhibited in his works . This did not , how- ever , prevent him from paying strict attention to his military duties , or from ...
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Seite 309 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.
Seite 308 - I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest, and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science : and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes.
Seite 309 - Wordsworth on the other hand, |was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Seite 309 - For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life : the characters and incidents were to be such as will be found in every village and its vicinity, where there is a meditative and feeling mind to seek after them, or to notice them when they present themselves.
Seite 309 - He received me very graciously, and I listened for a long time without uttering a word. I did not suffer in his opinion by my silence. " For those two hours," he afterwards was pleased to say, " he was conversing with WH's forehead!
Seite 309 - Philosophy had met together, Truth and Genius had embraced, under the eye and with the sanction of Religion. This was even beyond my hopes. I returned home well satisfied. The sun that was still labouring pale and wan through the sky, obscured by thick mists, seemed an emblem of the good cause ; and the cold dank drops of dew, that hung half melted on the beard of the thistle, had something genial and refreshing in them ; for there was a spirit of hope and youth in all nature, that turned every thing...
Seite 232 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little. The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety...
Seite 309 - Murillo and Velasquez. His mouth was gross, voluptuous, open, eloquent; his chin good-humoured and round; but his nose, the rudder of the face, the index of the will, was small, feeble, nothing — like what he has done.
Seite 318 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Seite 309 - ... that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.1 Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day...