The London Quarterly Review, Volumen18Theodore Foster, 1818 |
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... parties .'- Now the Diana of George of Montemayor is written precisely upon the same subject as the Arcadia , -it is the story of a lover desenganado , reconciling himself to the loss of his mistress , and drinking forgetfulness of his ...
... parties .'- Now the Diana of George of Montemayor is written precisely upon the same subject as the Arcadia , -it is the story of a lover desenganado , reconciling himself to the loss of his mistress , and drinking forgetfulness of his ...
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... parties have their fits of jealousy , with apparent reason on both sides . Fernando leaves Madrid , and returns to it . A friend who had studied astrology casts his nati- vity ; the horoscope is to this purport , that Dorothea and her ...
... parties have their fits of jealousy , with apparent reason on both sides . Fernando leaves Madrid , and returns to it . A friend who had studied astrology casts his nati- vity ; the horoscope is to this purport , that Dorothea and her ...
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... party , in endeavouring to force his way to a small post , was attacked by the whole of Hyder's army , consisting of two deep columns of in- fantry , and a body of about 12,000 horse , which moved with the utmost rapidity to envelope ...
... party , in endeavouring to force his way to a small post , was attacked by the whole of Hyder's army , consisting of two deep columns of in- fantry , and a body of about 12,000 horse , which moved with the utmost rapidity to envelope ...
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... party of eighty ferocious Affghans , who had been taken prisoners and disarmed : though their swords were afterwards restored , they still felt the insult , and concerted a plan of revenge . In the dead of night they slew the guards ...
... party of eighty ferocious Affghans , who had been taken prisoners and disarmed : though their swords were afterwards restored , they still felt the insult , and concerted a plan of revenge . In the dead of night they slew the guards ...
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... parties , and give a general challenge to single combat . The manner in which they were answered and silenced is not ill described : - There was in Sir Eyre Coote's body - guard a young cavalry officer , distinguished for superior ...
... parties , and give a general challenge to single combat . The manner in which they were answered and silenced is not ill described : - There was in Sir Eyre Coote's body - guard a young cavalry officer , distinguished for superior ...
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Página 383 - I thought I saw Elizabeth, in the bloom of health, walking in the streets of Ingolstadt Delighted and surprised, I embraced her; but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death ; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms ; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 459 - I have lived long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf ; And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Página 383 - He held up the curtain of the bed ; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear ; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed downstairs.
Página 59 - The defeat of many Baillies and Braithwaites will not destroy them. I can ruin their resources by land, but I cannot dry up the sea ; and I must be first weary of a war in which I can gain nothing by fighting.
Página 330 - Sleep breathes at last from out thee, My little patient boy ; And balmy rest about thee Smooths off the day's annoy. I sit me down, and think Of all thy winning ways : Yet almost wish, with sudden shrink, That I had less to praise.
Página 382 - How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
Página 458 - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry, and that fine sense of their undefinable relation to mental emotion, which is its essence and vivifying Soul, and which...
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Página 314 - The examination of a coral reef, during the different stages of one tide, is particularly interesting. When the tide has left it for some time, it becomes dry, and appears to be a compact rock, exceedingly hard and...
Página 382 - Beautiful! -Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.