The London Quarterly Review, 第 18 巻Theodore Foster, 1818 |
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... Attempt to trace the History of Mysoor ; from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State to the Extinction of the Mahomedan Dynasty in 1799. By Colonel Mark Wilks III . The Lives of Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the ...
... Attempt to trace the History of Mysoor ; from the Origin of the Hindoo Government of that State to the Extinction of the Mahomedan Dynasty in 1799. By Colonel Mark Wilks III . The Lives of Haydn and Mozart ; with Observations on the ...
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... attempt . A failure indeed it is , and a total one ; the plan , when compared to that of the Angelica , is as confusion worse confounded ; it has neither beginning , middle , nor end ; neither method , nor pur- pose , nor proportion ...
... attempt . A failure indeed it is , and a total one ; the plan , when compared to that of the Angelica , is as confusion worse confounded ; it has neither beginning , middle , nor end ; neither method , nor pur- pose , nor proportion ...
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... attempt was made in his Isidro de Madrid , a poem in ten cantos , consisting of about six thousand lines . Scholars and historians are well acquainted with the name of St. Isidore ; the personage whom Lopez celebrated was a peasant born ...
... attempt was made in his Isidro de Madrid , a poem in ten cantos , consisting of about six thousand lines . Scholars and historians are well acquainted with the name of St. Isidore ; the personage whom Lopez celebrated was a peasant born ...
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... attempts , and we do not recollect any poem of the kind of which the conception is so silly . It is a war between two cats for love of a third one of them rides in full dress upon a monkey to visit her , and each raises an army to fight ...
... attempts , and we do not recollect any poem of the kind of which the conception is so silly . It is a war between two cats for love of a third one of them rides in full dress upon a monkey to visit her , and each raises an army to fight ...
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... attempt the recovery , by sur- prise , of Periapatam . The corps , consisting of four battalions , was overtaken on ... attempting a retreat ; and his numerous wounded , on re- ceiving this intelligence , began to utter the most dreadful ...
... attempt the recovery , by sur- prise , of Periapatam . The corps , consisting of four battalions , was overtaken on ... attempting a retreat ; and his numerous wounded , on re- ceiving this intelligence , began to utter the most dreadful ...
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382 ページ - How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.
458 ページ - ... that indestructible love of flowers and odours, and dews and clear waters, and soft airs and sounds, and bright skies, and woodland solitudes, and moonlight bowers, which are the Material elements of Poetry, and that fine sense of their undefinable relation to mental emotion, which is its essence and vivifying Soul, and which...
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