English Essays ...: Popular tales of Hindostan and Germany. Longfellow. Pitt. I. The duchess of Kent. George Stephenson. The modern Russian drama. Travels in the Caucasus. La Bruyère. Napoleon IO. Meissner, 1870 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 17
Side 48
... Italy ; Sweden , Norway , and Denmark , including Iceland , are made the alternate homes of his travelling Muse . She , nevertheless , comes faithfully back to Massachusetts , and there sits down to relate some characteristic tale of ...
... Italy ; Sweden , Norway , and Denmark , including Iceland , are made the alternate homes of his travelling Muse . She , nevertheless , comes faithfully back to Massachusetts , and there sits down to relate some characteristic tale of ...
Side 49
... Italian are usually both more accurate and more graceful than any versions of the same texts by another hand . We must , nevertheless , take one very important excep- tion . His complete translation of the Divina Commedia , which was ...
... Italian are usually both more accurate and more graceful than any versions of the same texts by another hand . We must , nevertheless , take one very important excep- tion . His complete translation of the Divina Commedia , which was ...
Side 124
... Italy , and every chance newspaper which found its way into Newburn village was eagerly seized , and attracted a large circle of listeners , who gathered around the expounder of its contents . He was told , too , that the wonderful ...
... Italy , and every chance newspaper which found its way into Newburn village was eagerly seized , and attracted a large circle of listeners , who gathered around the expounder of its contents . He was told , too , that the wonderful ...
Side 224
... Italian Guicciardini , after whose time it was naturalized in France by the two Corbinellis , and imitated by De Retz , La Roche- foucauld , Madame de Sablé , and numerous other beaux esprits , whose sententious observations on the ...
... Italian Guicciardini , after whose time it was naturalized in France by the two Corbinellis , and imitated by De Retz , La Roche- foucauld , Madame de Sablé , and numerous other beaux esprits , whose sententious observations on the ...
Side 260
... longed neglect or forgetfulness . On the arrival of bad news from the army of Italy , Pontecoulant , the war- minister , sent for Bonaparte to attach him to the เ Committee by which plans of operations for the various 260 NAPOLEON I.
... longed neglect or forgetfulness . On the arrival of bad news from the army of Italy , Pontecoulant , the war- minister , sent for Bonaparte to attach him to the เ Committee by which plans of operations for the various 260 NAPOLEON I.
Almindelige termer og sætninger
Adam Smith Alpine Alps army Aryan nations Balzaminof beauty Bonaparte brother Bruyère Bruyère's Caucasus Champa character Chat Moss collieries command Condé corruption death Deccan Directors Duc de Bourbon Duchess Duchess of Kent Duke Elbruz engine England English Essays favour feel French Freshfield George George Stephenson German give glaciers glory heart Hindoo honour horse husband idea interest jackal Jadof Kabanof Katerina Kazbek Killingworth King Krasnof La Bruyère lady Lanfrey legends live locomotive Lord Luxman Madame de Sévigné marriage married ment miles military mind minister Mount Kazbek mountain Nadya Napoleon nation never night once Paris Parliament parrot pass Pitt Pitt's political popular Prince Princess railway rajah Ranee reform road Russian says scene soon steam-carriage Stephenson story success tale tell Thiers thought tion travellers turn Vicram Whig wife words Wylam young
Populære passager
Side 316 - Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind...
Side 43 - O'er the ocean wild and wide ! For my heart was hot and restless, And my life was full of care, And the burden laid upon me Seemed greater than I could bear.
Side 43 - Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Side 250 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Side 141 - I have said will come to pass as sure as you live. I only wish I may live to see the day, though that I can scarcely hope for, as I know how slow all human progress is, and with what difficulty I have been able to get the locomotive adopted, notwithstanding my more than ten years' successful experiment at Killingworth.
Side 151 - would rather meet a highwayman, or see a burglar on his premises, than an engineer ; he should be much more safe, and of the two classes he thought the former more respectable...
Side 89 - British barbarians, have predicted with equal boldness, " there is a people that will never rise to civilisation — there is a people destined never to be free — a people without the understanding necessary for the attainment of useful arts ; depressed by the hand of nature below the level of the human species ; and created to form a supply of slaves for the rest of the world.
Side 68 - Temple to say, that whoever voted for the India bill was not only not his friend, but would be considered by him as his enemy. And if these words were not strong enough, Earl Temple might use whatever words he might deem stronger or more to the purpose.
Side 44 - Comes the thought of other years. And I think how many thousands Of care-encumbered men, Each bearing his burden of sorrow, Have crossed the bridge since then. I see the long procession Still passing to and fro, The young heart hot and restless, And the old subdued and slow ! And...
Side 25 - Punchkin then stretched out his left arm, crying, "•Give me my parrot." The prince pulled of the parrot's second wing, and the magician's left arm tumbled off. ' "Give me my parrot," cried he, and fell on his knees. The prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the magician's right leg fell off; the prince pulled off the parrot's left leg, down fell the magician's left. 'Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried, "Give me my parrot.