Recollections of Foreign Travel: On Life, Literature, and Self-knowledge, 第 2 巻

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825 - 325 ページ
 

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78 ページ - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered; others, without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function, fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those...
78 ページ - Then ensued a scene of woe, the .like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can adequately tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of were mercy to that new havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field. consumed every house, destroyed every temple.
78 ページ - Arcot, he drew from every quarter whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the arts of destruction ; and compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desolation, into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains.
26 ページ - To Contemplation's sober eye Such is the race of Man : And they that creep, and they that fly Shall end where they began.
77 ページ - Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and every rival. who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob...
77 ページ - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor...
17 ページ - Through glens untrod and woods that frowned on high, Two sleeping nymphs with wonder mute I spy ; And, lo, she's gone ! — In robe of dark green hue, 'Twas Echo from her sister Silence flew, For quick the hunter's horn resounded to the sky ! In shade affrighted Silence melts away. Not so her sister. — Hark ! for onward still With far-heard step she takes her listening way, Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill.
76 ページ - He has faults; but they are faults that, though they may in a small degree tarnish the lustre and sometimes impede the march of his abilities, have nothing in them to extinguish the fire of great virtues. In those faults there is no mixture of deceit, of hypocrisy, of pride, of ferocity, of complexional despotism, or want of feeling for the distresses of mankind. His are faults which might exist in a descendant of Henry the Fourth of France, as they did exist in that father of his country.
17 ページ - Twas ECHO from her sister SILENCE flew : For quick the hunter's horn resounded to the sky ! In shade affrighted Silence melts away. Not so her sister ! — hark, for onward still With far-heard step she takes her listening way, Bounding from rock to rock, and hill to hill ! Ah, mark the merry maid in mockful play With thousand mimic tones the laughing forest fill.
313 ページ - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.

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