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... engagement , the French fleet fell into evident confufion and dif- order , and retired from action with apparent lofs , without their having been able to make the fmallest effective impreffion on the British line . No naval engagement ...
... engagement , the French fleet fell into evident confufion and dif- order , and retired from action with apparent lofs , without their having been able to make the fmallest effective impreffion on the British line . No naval engagement ...
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... engagement by fea and land ; an iffue to which the French were not yet at all difpofed to bring matters . Upon a full view and confidera- tion of thofe circumstances which we have ftated , as well as of others , the French commanders ...
... engagement by fea and land ; an iffue to which the French were not yet at all difpofed to bring matters . Upon a full view and confidera- tion of thofe circumstances which we have ftated , as well as of others , the French commanders ...
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... engagement between the Arethuja , and the Belle Poule , frigates . French fchooner , bravely taken by the Alert cutter . Another French frigate falls in with the fleet ; and is , with the Licorne and jchooner , brought to England ...
... engagement between the Arethuja , and the Belle Poule , frigates . French fchooner , bravely taken by the Alert cutter . Another French frigate falls in with the fleet ; and is , with the Licorne and jchooner , brought to England ...
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... engagement enfued , and was continued with unufual warmth and animofity for above two hours ; each fide vying with the utmost degree of national emu- lation to obtain the palm of victory , in this first action and opening of a new war ...
... engagement enfued , and was continued with unufual warmth and animofity for above two hours ; each fide vying with the utmost degree of national emu- lation to obtain the palm of victory , in this first action and opening of a new war ...
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... engagement was no lefs warm between Captain Fairfax , in the Alert cutter , and the French fchooner . Their force was about equal ; the former carrying ten , and the latter ( if we remember right ) eight guns . The conteft was well ...
... engagement was no lefs warm between Captain Fairfax , in the Alert cutter , and the French fchooner . Their force was about equal ; the former carrying ten , and the latter ( if we remember right ) eight guns . The conteft was well ...
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Página 19 - The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but, unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses, and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses, by counting the syllables.
Página 20 - ... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without emotion.
Página 19 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is, upon its...
Página 351 - Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral to will and require the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain, and the Lieutenant and Judge of the...
Página 19 - Wit, like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man, has its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms. About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets; of whom, in a criticism on the works of Cowley, it is not improper to give some account.
Página 19 - Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry. If Wit be well described by Pope, as being "that which has been often thought, but was never before so well expressed...
Página 25 - The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not satiate his appetite of greatness. To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.
Página 320 - March, one thoufand fe»en hundred and feventy-nine, upon lands> tenements, hereditaments, penfions, offices, and perfonal eftates, in that part of Great Britain called England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed; and that a proportionable cefs, according...
Página 29 - But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more.
Página 160 - Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine taste ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, Set fire to the head, and set fire to the tail.