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... Italy , in the year 1783 . ..1 THE shock which all this portion of the Calabrian coast experienced the morning of the 5th of February , had been highly detrimental to the town of Scylla , and levelled with the dust most of the houses ...
... Italy , in the year 1783 . ..1 THE shock which all this portion of the Calabrian coast experienced the morning of the 5th of February , had been highly detrimental to the town of Scylla , and levelled with the dust most of the houses ...
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... Italy , Germany , and Spain . It includes mathematics , the experimental sciences , and moral philosophy . An intimate acquaintance both with the profound and polite parts of English litera- ture is indispensable . Few of those who are ...
... Italy , Germany , and Spain . It includes mathematics , the experimental sciences , and moral philosophy . An intimate acquaintance both with the profound and polite parts of English litera- ture is indispensable . Few of those who are ...
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... Italy . THE character of Napoleon , at this period , appears to have been that of an enterprising soldier , with ex- traordinary talents and genius , but of no fixed politi- cal princples or opinions ; full of aspiring thoughts , but ...
... Italy . THE character of Napoleon , at this period , appears to have been that of an enterprising soldier , with ex- traordinary talents and genius , but of no fixed politi- cal princples or opinions ; full of aspiring thoughts , but ...
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... Italy , -an object of admiration to the world , and of jealousy and suspicion to the govern- ment he had served . I Edinburgh Review . " What inflection at said Meerfeldt , said Melsi , continued Melsi , genius , thoughts , ambition ...
... Italy , -an object of admiration to the world , and of jealousy and suspicion to the govern- ment he had served . I Edinburgh Review . " What inflection at said Meerfeldt , said Melsi , continued Melsi , genius , thoughts , ambition ...
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... Italian stage - a bladder full of wind . · to -Hark ! at the sound of that trumpet - let not my soldier run - ' tis some good Christian giving alms . O Pity , thou gentlest of human passions ! soft and tender are thy notes , and ill ...
... Italian stage - a bladder full of wind . · to -Hark ! at the sound of that trumpet - let not my soldier run - ' tis some good Christian giving alms . O Pity , thou gentlest of human passions ! soft and tender are thy notes , and ill ...
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Seite 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Seite 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Seite 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Seite 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Seite 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Seite 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...