The Letters of ValensJ. Almon, 1777 - 160 oldal |
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75. oldal - Conspicuous scene ! another yet is nigh, (More silent far) where kings and poets lie ; Where MURRAY (long enough his country's pride) Shall be no more than TULLY, or than HYDE ! Rack'd with sciatics, martyr'd with the stone, Will any mortal let himself alone?
158. oldal - ... to fet up their rebellious confederacies for independent ftates. If their treafon be fuffered to take root, much mifchief muft grow from it, to the fafety of my loyal colonies, to the commerce of my kingdoms, and indeed to the prefent fyftem of all Europe.
91. oldal - ... That being generally stript of what clothes they have when taken, they have suffered greatly for the want thereof, during their confinement." Mr. Burke, in one of his publications of the year 1776, sarcastically remarks, " it is undoubtedly some comfort for our disappointments and burdens, to insult the few provincial officers we take, by throwing them with common men into a gaol, and some triumph to hold the bold adventurer Ethan Allen, in irons in a dungeon in Cornwall.
154. oldal - She mould have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for fuch a word — To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the laft fyllable of recorded time ; And all our yefterdays have lighted fools. The way to dufty death.
115. oldal - In these well-written, spirited, and anti-ministerial letters, the author takes a view of the policy of the American War, its objects, its conduct, and the motives of Government for engaging in it.
147. oldal - Poets lofe half the praife they would have got Were it but known what they difcreetly blot.