The Edinburgh Annual Register

前表紙
John Ballantyne and Company, 1825

この書籍内から

ページのサンプル

目次

他の版 - すべて表示

多く使われている語句

人気のある引用

98 ページ - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, praying that he will be graciously pleased to issue a Commission for inquiring into the defects, occasioned by time and otherwise, in the laws of this realm, and into the measures necessary for removing the same.
115 ページ - The sentence of the Court on you, Joseph Hunt, is, that you be taken to the place from whence you came, and thence to the place of execution, there to be hanged by...
103 ページ - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
255 ページ - tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon : Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
255 ページ - The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow; The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear; Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below; Death in the front, Destruction in the rear! Such was the scene— what now remaineth here?
24 ページ - But that the junction of any Foreign Power, in an enterprise of Spain against the Colonies, would be viewed by them as constituting an entirely new question, and one upon which they must take such decision as the interests of Great Britain might require.
257 ページ - Thus lived — thus died she; never more on her Shall sorrow light, or shame. — She was not made Through years or moons the inner weight to bear, Which colder hearts endure till...
260 ページ - ... life, in behalf of a people only endeared to him by their past glories, and as fellowcreatures suffering under the yoke of a heathen oppressor. To have fallen in a crusade for Freedom and Humanity, as in olden times it would have been an atonement for the blackest crimes, may in the present be allowed to expiate greater follies than even exaggerating calumny has propagated against Byron.
259 ページ - ... impatience, and reproach hardened him in his error; so that he often resembled the gallant war-steed, who rushes forward on the steel that wounds him. In the most painful crisis of his private life, he evinced this irritability and impatience of censure in such a degree, as almost to resemble the noble victim of the bull-fight, which is more maddened by the squibs, darts, and petty annoyances of the unworthy crowds beyond the lists than by the lance of his nobler, and so to speak, his more legitimate...
288 ページ - An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus, Lately Existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples...

書誌情報