Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Men, and Revolutions, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... Vendean Cromwell - Bonaparte Page . 168 · 171 • 179 183 . 187 Clarendon - Al- · · 195 199 . 204 . 210 Lovelace . - My Detention at the Prefecture of the Police . -God Save the King ' . Prose . - Tillotson - Temple - Burnet gernon Sidney ...
... Vendean Cromwell - Bonaparte Page . 168 · 171 • 179 183 . 187 Clarendon - Al- · · 195 199 . 204 . 210 Lovelace . - My Detention at the Prefecture of the Police . -God Save the King ' . Prose . - Tillotson - Temple - Burnet gernon Sidney ...
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... Vendean wars . PORTRAIT OF A VENDEAN . BE it as it may 178 ROYAL PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND .
... Vendean wars . PORTRAIT OF A VENDEAN . BE it as it may 178 ROYAL PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND .
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... VENDEAN . BE it as it may with regard to the wood - cutters of Boscobel , near the now - fallen royal oak , is the character of the Pendrills that of the Vendean peasants ? Whilst residing in London in 1798 , I once met at the residence ...
... VENDEAN . BE it as it may with regard to the wood - cutters of Boscobel , near the now - fallen royal oak , is the character of the Pendrills that of the Vendean peasants ? Whilst residing in London in 1798 , I once met at the residence ...
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... levelled . Whatever remained of old blood and of recollections in the France of the Crusades struggled against the new blood and the hopes put forth by revolutionary France . The victor was 180 PORTRAIT OF A VENDEAN .
... levelled . Whatever remained of old blood and of recollections in the France of the Crusades struggled against the new blood and the hopes put forth by revolutionary France . The victor was 180 PORTRAIT OF A VENDEAN .
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... Vendeans the first rank amongst military populations . " Another general wrote to Merlin of Thionville : " Troops that have defeated Frenchmen such as these may well hope to conquer all other nations . " legions of Probus ... VENDEAN . 181.
... Vendeans the first rank amongst military populations . " Another general wrote to Merlin of Thionville : " Troops that have defeated Frenchmen such as these may well hope to conquer all other nations . " legions of Probus ... VENDEAN . 181.
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Página 19 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página 5 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 148 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Página 152 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 30 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 153 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 126 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
Página 101 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few-. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Página 19 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.