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Page ix
... defeat of General Janssens , 1806. - The funeral of Nelson was solemnized at St. Paul's , on the same day , amidst a nation's tears . The paths of glory lead but to the grave . — Gray . Day . IV . Id . 10 . Fame , IX . JANUARY .
... defeat of General Janssens , 1806. - The funeral of Nelson was solemnized at St. Paul's , on the same day , amidst a nation's tears . The paths of glory lead but to the grave . — Gray . Day . IV . Id . 10 . Fame , IX . JANUARY .
Page xvi
... defeats the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent , 1780 . The bean - fed friars in 1790 are ejected from their convents by an Augean labour of the French Revolution . The battle of Corunna and death of Sir John Moore . - See Deaths . I am ...
... defeats the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent , 1780 . The bean - fed friars in 1790 are ejected from their convents by an Augean labour of the French Revolution . The battle of Corunna and death of Sir John Moore . - See Deaths . I am ...
Page ix
... defeats Griffith Glendour at Grosmont , 1405. — The ex- traordinary arrêt is issued confirming the innocence of Calas and his family , 1763 . The battle of Laon , in which Napoleon is defeated by Marshal Blucher , 1814 : -the day also ...
... defeats Griffith Glendour at Grosmont , 1405. — The ex- traordinary arrêt is issued confirming the innocence of Calas and his family , 1763 . The battle of Laon , in which Napoleon is defeated by Marshal Blucher , 1814 : -the day also ...
Page xii
... defeat of the rebels under Sir Robert Welles , 1470 Chelsea Hospital is founded , 1682 : James II . lands at Kinsale , 1689 : Steele's paper " The Guardian " commences , 1713 : Pope presents his " Dunciad " to the King and Queen at St ...
... defeat of the rebels under Sir Robert Welles , 1470 Chelsea Hospital is founded , 1682 : James II . lands at Kinsale , 1689 : Steele's paper " The Guardian " commences , 1713 : Pope presents his " Dunciad " to the King and Queen at St ...
Page xiv
... defeats the French fleet off Genoa , 1795 . Therefore let us keep the feast , not with old leaven , neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness , but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth . St. Paul . Here wast thou bay ...
... defeats the French fleet off Genoa , 1795 . Therefore let us keep the feast , not with old leaven , neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness , but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth . St. Paul . Here wast thou bay ...
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Page xx - The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page xv - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page iv - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berccau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page ii - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page xxi - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least...
Page ix - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Page xiv - ... for whose sake I am now as I am, whose name I could some good while since have pointed unto, your Grace being not ignorant of my suspicion therein. But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of your desired happiness ; then I desire of God, that he will pardon your great sin therein, and likewise...