The Annual Register, 22. kötetLongmans, Green, 1796 |
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2. oldal
... arms at Providence ; the destruction , or ef- fectual difmantling of which , would have removed an eye - fore , and conftant fource of apprehenfion , at leaft , from the immediate vicinity of Rhode Island . Sullivan's timely retreat ...
... arms at Providence ; the destruction , or ef- fectual difmantling of which , would have removed an eye - fore , and conftant fource of apprehenfion , at leaft , from the immediate vicinity of Rhode Island . Sullivan's timely retreat ...
5. oldal
... arms , foon found the tafk beyond their ability , and were , with little difficulty , and without any lofs , obliged to abandon them and dif- perle . The detachment found ten vef- fels at this place ; which were of a confiderable fize ...
... arms , foon found the tafk beyond their ability , and were , with little difficulty , and without any lofs , obliged to abandon them and dif- perle . The detachment found ten vef- fels at this place ; which were of a confiderable fize ...
7. oldal
... arms , or the fmalleft motion of defence . The depofitions of feveral of the foldiers who had been left as dead , or who had otherwife unaccountably efcaped , were taken upon oath , authenti- cated in the ufual forms , and published by ...
... arms , or the fmalleft motion of defence . The depofitions of feveral of the foldiers who had been left as dead , or who had otherwife unaccountably efcaped , were taken upon oath , authenti- cated in the ufual forms , and published by ...
10. oldal
... arms on the frontiers , or other- wife , in the most extreme de- gree ; and that all the threats which had ever been denounced againft this people , were now renewed with aggravated ven- geance . As the time approached for the final ...
... arms on the frontiers , or other- wife , in the most extreme de- gree ; and that all the threats which had ever been denounced againft this people , were now renewed with aggravated ven- geance . As the time approached for the final ...
17. oldal
... arms were rendered useless , at thofe times when they were most liable to the fudden attack of an enraged and cruel enemy , whofe principal effort lay in that fort of furprize . These were , however , only fmall matters , when compared ...
... arms were rendered useless , at thofe times when they were most liable to the fudden attack of an enraged and cruel enemy , whofe principal effort lay in that fort of furprize . These were , however , only fmall matters , when compared ...
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19. oldal - 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.
20. oldal - ... 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.
19. oldal - 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...
351. oldal - 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...
19. oldal - 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.
19. oldal - 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...
25. oldal - 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.
320. oldal - 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...
29. oldal - 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.
160. oldal - 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.