Wordsworth's Tract on the Convention of Cintra: (published 1809) with Two Letters of Wordsworth Written in the Year 1811, Now RepublishedH. Milford, 1915 - 244 من الصفحات |
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actions allies appear armistice arms authority blessings Board of Inquiry Bonaparte Britain British army cause character civil command condemned condition conduct confidence Convention of Cintra courage deem doubt duty effect enemy England English army Europe evil exist eyes favour fear feelings force France French army furnished give given heart honour hope human nature indignation injury insult Italy Junot justice land laws letter liberty Lisbon look Lord G manner means ment mighty military power mind moral national independence never object opinion oppression passions Peninsula perfidy persons Portugal Portugueze possession present principles proved reader reason resistance Seville shew shewn Sir Arthur Wellesley Sir Harry Burrard Sir Hew Dalrymple Sir J. M. Sir John Moore soldiers Spain Spaniards Spanish speak spirit strength superiority surrender things thought tion treaty troops true tyranny Tyrant victory virtue whole words Wordsworth
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الصفحة 2 - Indeed, bitter and earnest writing must not hastily be condemned ; for men cannot contend coldly, and without affection, about things which they hold dear and precious.
الصفحة 88 - Government, against subjects of Portugal, or any other individuals residing in this country, founded on the occupation of Portugal by the French troops in the month of December 1807, which may not have been paid up, are cancelled, and all sequestrations laid upon their property, moveable or immoveable, are removed, and the free disposal of the same is restored to the proper owners.
الصفحة 122 - Ultima Cumaei venit jam carminis aetas ; Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo. Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna : Jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto.
الصفحة xxxix - The outward shows of sky and earth, Of hill and valley, he has viewed ; And impulses of deeper birth Have come to him in solitude. In common things that round us lie Some random truths he can impart, The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on his own heart.
الصفحة 106 - Dalrymple, by his majesty's secretary of state, that his majesty, nevertheless, felt himself compelled at once to express his disapprobation of those articles, in which stipulations were made, directly affecting the interests or feelings of the Spanish and Portuguese nations.
الصفحة 183 - And these men, habituated more to spiritual pride than carnal riot or intemperance, so consequently having been industrious and active in their former callings and professions, where natural courage wanted, zeal supplied its place : and at first they chose rather to die than fly ; and custom removed fear of danger ; and afterwards finding the sweet of good pay and of opulent plunder and preferment, the lucrative part made gain seem to them a natural member of godliness.
الصفحة 205 - All the places and forts in the kingdom of Portugal, occupied by the French troops, shall be delivered up to the British army in the state in which they are at the period of the signature of the present Convention. ART.
الصفحة 41 - Things which we Spaniards know how to do, which we have done as well as other nations, without any necessity that the vile French...
الصفحة 27 - France, under the government of the emperor Napoleon the First, has violated towards Spain the most sacred compacts — has arrested her monarchs — obliged them to a forced and manifestly void abdication and renunciation ; has behaved with the same violence towards the Spanish Nobles whom he keeps in his power — has declared that he will elect a king of Spain, the most horrible attempt that is recorded in history — has sent...
الصفحة 187 - Lover is subject ; the blast, like the blast of the desart, which sweeps perennially through a frightful solitude of its own making in the mind of the Gamester ; the slowly quickening but ever quickening descent of appetite down which the Miser is propelled; the agony and cleaving oppression of grief; the ghostlike hauntings of shame ; the incubus of revenge ; the life-distemper of ambition ; — these inward existences, and the visible and familiar occurrences of daily life in every town and village...