The Annual Register, 第 22 卷Longmans, Green, 1796 |
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... defence , against whatever might deferve the name of enemy , this fervice was accordingly performed without difficulty . A capitula- tion was granted , in confequence of which the Governor , with the inhabitants , and the garrifon , a ...
... defence , against whatever might deferve the name of enemy , this fervice was accordingly performed without difficulty . A capitula- tion was granted , in confequence of which the Governor , with the inhabitants , and the garrifon , a ...
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... defence with finall 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 ...
... defence with finall 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 ...
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... 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 authority . Some of the witneffes ...
... 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 authority . Some of the witneffes ...
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call , or even for procuring a fub- ftitute of defence or protection . Their quiet had been interrupted by the favages , joined with ma- rauding parties of their own coun- trymen , in the preceding year ; and it was only by a vigorous ...
call , or even for procuring a fub- ftitute of defence or protection . Their quiet had been interrupted by the favages , joined with ma- rauding parties of their own coun- trymen , in the preceding year ; and it was only by a vigorous ...
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... defence of Wyoming , ei- ther committed to his charge , or by fome means fall to his lot . This man , with nearly the whole force of the fettlement , was fta- tioned in the principal fort , called Kingfton ; whither alfo , the wo- men ...
... defence of Wyoming , ei- ther committed to his charge , or by fome means fall to his lot . This man , with nearly the whole force of the fettlement , was fta- tioned in the principal fort , called Kingfton ; whither alfo , the wo- men ...
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第 19 頁 - 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.
第 20 頁 - ... 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.
第 19 頁 - 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...
第 351 頁 - 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...
第 19 頁 - 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.
第 19 頁 - 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...
第 25 頁 - 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.
第 320 頁 - 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...
第 29 頁 - 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.
第 160 頁 - 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.