The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volumen19Longman., 1835 |
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... arrived with the Canada and Lion , at Sandy Hook , where he found the ships collected by Admiral Graves for the purpose of forcing the fleet of De Grasse , who was blocking up the Chesapeake , to action . The surrender of Earl ...
... arrived with the Canada and Lion , at Sandy Hook , where he found the ships collected by Admiral Graves for the purpose of forcing the fleet of De Grasse , who was blocking up the Chesapeake , to action . The surrender of Earl ...
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... arrived off Cadiz , and found that the glorious conflict of Trafalgar had taken place . Shortly afterwards ... arrival of another French squadron , and therefore proceeded with the utmost celerity to St. Domingo . On the 6th SIR RICHARD ...
... arrived off Cadiz , and found that the glorious conflict of Trafalgar had taken place . Shortly afterwards ... arrival of another French squadron , and therefore proceeded with the utmost celerity to St. Domingo . On the 6th SIR RICHARD ...
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... arrived at Gottenburg on the 17th . His next attention was directed to the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Romana , which Napoleon , under pretence of securing Hanover , had marched from their own country , preparatory to his own ...
... arrived at Gottenburg on the 17th . His next attention was directed to the Spanish army under the Marquis de la Romana , which Napoleon , under pretence of securing Hanover , had marched from their own country , preparatory to his own ...
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... arrival in England , was created a Knight of the Bath . In the latter end of May , 1809 , the British government resolved on attacking the French naval force in the Scheldt ; and Sir R. Keats was appointed second in command of the ...
... arrival in England , was created a Knight of the Bath . In the latter end of May , 1809 , the British government resolved on attacking the French naval force in the Scheldt ; and Sir R. Keats was appointed second in command of the ...
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... arrival in India , and who was well acquainted with the worth of his character . The following extract from a letter addressed by Mr. Sotheby to his long attached friend , Mrs. Joanna Baillie , will , in some measure , express a ...
... arrival in India , and who was well acquainted with the worth of his character . The following extract from a letter addressed by Mr. Sotheby to his long attached friend , Mrs. Joanna Baillie , will , in some measure , express a ...
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Página 345 - 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...
Página 344 - 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.
Página 326 - 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.
Página 342 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war ; upon Church and State — not their alliance, but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had " inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Página 267 - What little suppers, or sizings, as they were called, have I enjoyed; when .'Eschylus, and Plato, and Thucydides were pushed aside, with a pile of lexicons, &c., to discuss the pamphlets of the day. Ever and anon a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke. There was no need of having the book before us. Coleridge had read it in the morning; and in the evening he would repeat whole pages verbatim.
Página 248 - 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...
Página 328 - In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute ; And found no' end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Página 345 - ... 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...
Página 352 - A Lay Sermon addressed to the Higher and Middle Classes on the Existing Distresses and Discontents.
Página 335 - ... minister and his friends, and because I had never smoked except once or twice in my lifetime, and then it was herb tobacco mixed with Oronooko. On the assurance however that the tobacco was equally mild, and seeing too that it was of a yellow colour; (not forgetting the lamentable difficulty, I have always experienced, in saying, No!