The Quarterly Review, Volumen18William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1818 |
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... sepoys were kept at hard labour , and these faithful creatures , whenever they had an opportunity , sacrificed a portion of their own scanty pittance to mend the fare of their Eu- ropean fellow soldiers . This is sufficiently horrible ...
... sepoys were kept at hard labour , and these faithful creatures , whenever they had an opportunity , sacrificed a portion of their own scanty pittance to mend the fare of their Eu- ropean fellow soldiers . This is sufficiently horrible ...
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... Sepoys were cut down . Colonel Floyd , in passing along the line , expressed his regret to the native officers , and cheered them with the hope of retaliation in due time . These brave and faithful fellows all replied nearly in the same ...
... Sepoys were cut down . Colonel Floyd , in passing along the line , expressed his regret to the native officers , and cheered them with the hope of retaliation in due time . These brave and faithful fellows all replied nearly in the same ...
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... sepoys . On the coast of Coromandel , which became towards the middle of the last century a scene of warfare between the English and French , who mutually aided and received support from the princes of that quar- ter , the natives of ...
... sepoys . On the coast of Coromandel , which became towards the middle of the last century a scene of warfare between the English and French , who mutually aided and received support from the princes of that quar- ter , the natives of ...
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... sepoys , ' ( the Council of Fort St. David observe , in a dispatch dated the 2d September , 1748 , in which they pass an eulogium on the character of Mr. Haliburton , ) that he had the misfortune to be killed , who shot him upon his ...
... sepoys , ' ( the Council of Fort St. David observe , in a dispatch dated the 2d September , 1748 , in which they pass an eulogium on the character of Mr. Haliburton , ) that he had the misfortune to be killed , who shot him upon his ...
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... sepoys of this establishment shewed their usual zeal and courage ; but the number of European troops which were now intermixed with them , lessened their opportunities of distinguishing themselves and though improved in discipline ...
... sepoys of this establishment shewed their usual zeal and courage ; but the number of European troops which were now intermixed with them , lessened their opportunities of distinguishing themselves and though improved in discipline ...
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Página 457 - 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 463 - Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning.
Página 494 - EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Página 381 - 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 graveworms crawling in the folds of the flannel.
Página 331 - His voice — his face — is gone ; " To feel impatient-hearted, Yet feel we must bear on ; Ah, I could not endure To whisper of such woe, Unless I felt this sleep ensure That it will not be so.
Página 196 - I would never convict any person of murder or manslaughter, unless the fact were proved to be done, or at least the body found dead,(/) for the sake of two cases, one mentioned in my lord Coke's PC cap.
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 456 - ... 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...
Página 381 - I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room, and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the...
Página 377 - After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life ; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.