Essays from the London Times: A Collection of Personal and Historical Sketches, Том 2D. Appleton, 1852 - 301 стор. |
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... Sphacteria . Thucydides tells us that the blockade of Sphacteria lingered , that the Athenians grew anxious and impatient , that Cleon in a boastful hour upbraided the generals of the republic with their incapacity , and said that if he ...
... Sphacteria . Thucydides tells us that the blockade of Sphacteria lingered , that the Athenians grew anxious and impatient , that Cleon in a boastful hour upbraided the generals of the republic with their incapacity , and said that if he ...
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... should almost expect the same thing from an assembly of Frenchmen . They knew , moreover , that their best general was on the spot , and must have the CAPTURE OF SPARTANS IN SPHACTERIA . 169 real command . 168 HISTORY OF GREECE .
... should almost expect the same thing from an assembly of Frenchmen . They knew , moreover , that their best general was on the spot , and must have the CAPTURE OF SPARTANS IN SPHACTERIA . 169 real command . 168 HISTORY OF GREECE .
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A Collection of Personal and Historical Sketches Samuel Phillips. CAPTURE OF SPARTANS IN SPHACTERIA . 169 real command . When Mr. Grote talks about the " overwhelming cheers heaped upon Cleon by his joyful partisans , who had helped to ...
A Collection of Personal and Historical Sketches Samuel Phillips. CAPTURE OF SPARTANS IN SPHACTERIA . 169 real command . When Mr. Grote talks about the " overwhelming cheers heaped upon Cleon by his joyful partisans , who had helped to ...
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... Sphacteria , he ventures to take the sole command of an army against Brasidas , exposes , his incompetence by a helpless inactivity , loses the confidence of his troops , endeavours to regain it by a rash advance , then orders a ...
... Sphacteria , he ventures to take the sole command of an army against Brasidas , exposes , his incompetence by a helpless inactivity , loses the confidence of his troops , endeavours to regain it by a rash advance , then orders a ...
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Сторінка 125 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Сторінка 45 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say ' This poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
Сторінка 49 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Сторінка 44 - Practiser in Physic.) Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well...
Сторінка 94 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Сторінка 50 - Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein?
Сторінка 45 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out— to some one of his race: So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Сторінка 51 - THAT each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Сторінка 55 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Сторінка 94 - Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those years looking down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle, attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express contributions to poetry, philosophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment had been small and sadly...