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Страница 82 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee and arbiter of war, — These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride or spoils of Trafalgar.
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Страница 185 - MA 3*. 6i/. 13 1 . Select Passages from Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Dio Cassius, illustrative of Christianity in the First Century.
Страница 46 - is still the usual term of praise applied to any public man who appears to be actuated by an unusual spirit of kindness and liberality towards their nation. Of the sultan-like and splendid character of Warren Hastings, many traits are preserved, and a nursery rhyme, which is often sung to children, seems to show how much they were pleased with the Oriental, (not European) pomp which he knew how to employ on occasion.
Страница 38 - Behar to the mountains of Thibet, while he would remain equally accessible to our forces from the above provinces either for hostilities or protection. It would give him wealth, of which we should 'partake, and give him security without any dangerous increase of power.
Страница 220 - Low spirits, he remarks (i. 275), "are what we call the mood in which we see things as they are.
Страница 169 - Roi, on board of which was all his household. The king posted himself in the fore part of his own ship: he was dressed in a black velvet jacket, and wore on his head a small hat of beaver, which became him much. He was that day, as I was told by those who were present, as joyous as he ever was in his life, and ordered his minstrels to play before him a German dance which sir John Chandos had lately introduced. For his amusement, he made the same knight sing with his minstrels, which delighted him...
Страница 226 - I Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, translated this book from the Welsh into Latin, and in my old age have again translated it from the Latin into Welsh.
Страница 217 - ... happen. I have no business to talk of accurate knowledge, but Acton, who in that respect thinks very ill of the Essays, is full of praise for the careful labour and good judgment of the History. . . . Read Motley, one of the most interesting of all the great European stories, told with fervent feeling.