The Annual Register, 22. kötetLongmans, Green, 1796 |
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2. oldal
... force . " One of these was to cut off Sullivan's retreat to the continent ; and the other , which might have been either adopted as principal , or purfued as a fecondary object , was to attack the Americans in their head quar- ters and ...
... force . " One of these was to cut off Sullivan's retreat to the continent ; and the other , which might have been either adopted as principal , or purfued as a fecondary object , was to attack the Americans in their head quar- ters and ...
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... force on either fide of it within twenty - four hours ; whilft , by the command of the Channel , which their marine af- forded all the way up to the Highlands , Washington's forces , which were likewife feparated in the fame manner ...
... force on either fide of it within twenty - four hours ; whilft , by the command of the Channel , which their marine af- forded all the way up to the Highlands , Washington's forces , which were likewife feparated in the fame manner ...
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... force , on the Sufquehanna . They were led by Butler , that diftinguished par- tizan , whose name we have alrea- dy mentioned ; who was affifted by most of thofe leaders , who , like him , had rendered themselves ter- rible in the ...
... force , on the Sufquehanna . They were led by Butler , that diftinguished par- tizan , whose name we have alrea- dy mentioned ; who was affifted by most of thofe leaders , who , like him , had rendered themselves ter- rible in the ...
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... force fufficient even to man the works for one effort , went with a flag to But- ler , to know what terms he would grant on a furrender ; to this ap- plication of weakness and mifery , Butler , with all the phlegm of a real favage ...
... force fufficient even to man the works for one effort , went with a flag to But- ler , to know what terms he would grant on a furrender ; to this ap- plication of weakness and mifery , Butler , with all the phlegm of a real favage ...
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... force , were the peremptory and only con- ditions held out by the former , upon which they would admit the opening of any negociation . One of the gentlemen who was appoint- ed in the commiffion , having ferved in the navy , on the ...
... force , were the peremptory and only con- ditions held out by the former , upon which they would admit the opening of any negociation . One of the gentlemen who was appoint- ed in the commiffion , having ferved in the navy , on the ...
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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.