Essays from the Times: Being a Selection from the Literary Papers which Have Appeared in that JournalJohn Murray, 1851 - 310 стор. |
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... admitted to have been executed by her with a grace and elegance far sur- passing that with which it has ever been rendered on the stage of any of our theatres . " Prudent and calculating for a moment , the adven- turess.
... admitted to have been executed by her with a grace and elegance far sur- passing that with which it has ever been rendered on the stage of any of our theatres . " Prudent and calculating for a moment , the adven- turess.
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... passed a whole life in the interim . We saw him quitting Naples in 1793 , after having delivered his despatches to Sir William Hamilton , plain Captain Nelson of the Agamemnon . returned to the Neapolitan shores in 1798 , with a title ...
... passed a whole life in the interim . We saw him quitting Naples in 1793 , after having delivered his despatches to Sir William Hamilton , plain Captain Nelson of the Agamemnon . returned to the Neapolitan shores in 1798 , with a title ...
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... passed ; but if it were so affecting to those who were only united to me by bonds of friendship , what must it be to my dearest wife - my friend - my everything which is most dear to me in this world ? Sir William and Lady Hamilton ...
... passed ; but if it were so affecting to those who were only united to me by bonds of friendship , what must it be to my dearest wife - my friend - my everything which is most dear to me in this world ? Sir William and Lady Hamilton ...
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... - " Remember , Dr. Scott , that I leave Lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country . Never forget Horatia . " Nelson's codicil proved waste paper . His last imploring accents passed into the air . Lady Hamilton derived.
... - " Remember , Dr. Scott , that I leave Lady Hamilton and my daughter Horatia as a legacy to my country . Never forget Horatia . " Nelson's codicil proved waste paper . His last imploring accents passed into the air . Lady Hamilton derived.
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... passed into the air . Lady Hamilton derived no help from either . We do not apologise for the Government that took no heed of the last breath of Nelson ; but on behalf of humanity we ask pardon for the treachery of the man who kept back ...
... passed into the air . Lady Hamilton derived no help from either . We do not apologise for the Government that took no heed of the last breath of Nelson ; but on behalf of humanity we ask pardon for the treachery of the man who kept back ...
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Сторінка 126 - Cannot be ill, cannot be good : if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I...
Сторінка 263 - The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man. It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself.
Сторінка 28 - Could I have rewarded these services I would not now call upon my country ; but as that has not been in my power, I leave Emma, Lady Hamilton therefore a legacy to my king and country, that they will give her an ample provision to maintain her rank in life.
Сторінка 269 - The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
Сторінка 145 - ... most timid writer or artist, who found himself for the first time among Ambassadors and Earls. They will remember that constant flow of conversation, so natural, so animated, so various, so rich with observation and anecdote ; that wit which never gave a wound ; that exquisite mimicry which ennobled, instead of degrading...
Сторінка 28 - Then in sight of the combined fleets of France and Spain, distant about ten miles. " Whereas the eminent services of Emma Hamilton, widow of the Right Honourable Sir William Hamilton, have been of the very greatest service to my king and country, to my knowledge, without ever receiving any reward from either our king or country.
Сторінка 29 - I have called two or three of our fresh ships round, and have no doubt of giving them a drubbing." "I hope," said Nelson, "none of our ships have struck ? ' ' Hardy answered, '
Сторінка 272 - Grote the compliment which he pays to others, "the poets, historians, orators, and philosophers of Greece, have been all rendered both more intelligible and more instructive to the student, and the general picture of the Grecian world may now be conceived with a degree of fidelity which, considering our imperfect materials, it is curious to contemplate.
Сторінка 194 - To Jeffrey as an individual I shall ever be ready to show every kind of individual courtesy; but of Judge Jeffrey of the Edinburgh Review I must ever think and speak as of a bad politician, a worse moralist, and a critic, in matters of taste, equally incompetent and unjust.
Сторінка 23 - I hope some day to have the pleasure of introducing you to Lady Hamilton, she is one of the very best women in the world ; she is an honour to her sex.