Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Russia, Tahtary, and TurkeyT. Cadell and W. Davies in the Strand, 1823 |
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الصفحة 348 - and it would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the. present; advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far be from me, and from my friends, that frigid philosophy which might
الصفحة 265 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, buttress, Nor coigne of vantage, but this bird hath made His pendent bed, and procreant cradle. Where they Most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, the air
الصفحة 514 - April 19. April 20. April 21. April 22. April 23. April 24. April 25. April 26. April 27. April 28. April 29. April 30. May 1. May 2 May 3. May 4 May 5. May 6. May
الصفحة 341 - low spirits ; but Mr. Howard soon assured him it was otherwise; and added, " Priestman, you style this a very dull conversation, and endeavour to divert my mind from dwelling upon death: but I entertain very different sentiments. Death has no terrors for me: it is an event I always look
الصفحة 299 - That serve to fill up pages here, As with their bodies ditches there*. Scrimansky was his cousin-german, With whom he served, and fed on vermin: And when these failed he'd suck his claws, And quarter himself upon his paws. And though his countrymen, the Huns, Did stew their meat between their bums And th' horses' backs, o'er which they straddle, And
الصفحة 43 - HE WILL BE A WILD MAN; HIS HAND WILL BE AGAINST EVERY MAN, AND EVERY MAN*S HAND AGAINST HIM.
الصفحة 217 - affecting tragedies. (Iphigen. in Taur.) The bloody sacrifices of Diana, the arrival of Orestes and Pylades, and the triumph of virtue and religion over savage fierceness, serve to represent an historical truth, that the Tauri, the original inhabitants of the Peninsula, were in some
الصفحة 458 - hero will stab half-a-dozen. Be sure your ball's in your gun! If three attack you, stab the first, fire on the second, and bayonet the third!—this seldom happens. In the attack, there's no time to load again. When you fire, take aim at their guts; and fire about twenty
الصفحة 464 - must attack like Infantry, except in swampy ground; and there they must lead their horses by the bridle. Cossacks will go through any thing. When the battle is gained, the Cavalry pursue and hack the enemy, and the Infantry are not to remain behind. In two files there is strength —in three files, strength and a
الصفحة 217 - reclaimed from their brutal manners, by a gradual intercourse with the Grecian colonies, which settled along the maritime coast. This seems to concede more to allegory than is consistent with the antient history of the Greek Drama; in which so much attention was paid to the strict tenor either of record or tradition. It is uncertain to which of the Heathen Goddesses the