Mordaunt: Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various Countries; Including the Memoirs of a French Lady of Quality, Հատոր 1G. G. and J. Robinson, 1800 - 460 էջ |
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Mordaunt: Sketches of Life, Characters, and Manners, in Various ..., Հատոր 1 John Moore Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1800 |
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Էջ 13 - Thou trembleft ; and the whitenefs in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even fuch a man, fo faint, fo fpiritlefs, So dull, fo dead in look, fo woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him, half his Troy was burn'd : But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'ft it.
Էջ 265 - ... the air for joy. The moment was worth years of common life ! It does not fall to the share of many officers, even during a pretty long military career, to conduct an assault, or even to assist in taking a fortress by storm. Such dangerous services seldom occurred formerly, as the garrison generally capitulated after a breach was made. It has «been the fate of this -officer, though a young man, to con,duct two, and to prove successful in both.
Էջ 275 - They rather choose to bear those ills they have Than fly to others that they know not of.
Էջ 236 - I have the fulled reliance, faid he was witnefs to the king's {bedding tears when one of his life-guards broke his leg by a fall from his horfe as he rode by his majefty's coach. ' He is faid to be very little acquainted with bufinefs, though he regularly fits in council, with the queen at his fide : and though his minifters...
Էջ 76 - Clootz. * By chance !' exclaimed the other. ' Yes, unquestionably, by mere chance,' added Clootz. ' You have no notion of the power of chance.
Էջ 35 - The fhocking vote he gave in the convention was not prompted by revenge, or a wifli to take away the king's life, but merely to fave his own ; which, however, it did not fave ; for he was afterwards dragged to the guillotine by the very monfters who had forced him to vote for the death of the king. What may be thought the...
Էջ 268 - When one important conquest, in which he had a considerable share, was detailed in the gazette, the most honourable mention was made of this officer by the experienced and judicious general who commanded on that expedition. The whole article published in the London Gazette, relative to this conquest, was translated into Italian, and appeared in a gazette published at Corsica, under the authority of the viceroy, except the paragraph regarding the officer now in question.".
Էջ 234 - ... were conveyed in notes laid on the king's plate under his napkin, thrown into his coach, tranfmitted to him, or brought to his notice, by every means which envy could prompt and malevolent ingenuity contrive, but all without producing the effedt intended : he remains fully fatisfied that his confort is as faithful to him as he is to her.
Էջ 267 - Highly esteemed by his brother officers, beloved by the soldiers, and enjoying the confidence of the general, who had succeeded in the military command, he had the misfortune not to please the viceroy ; in consequence of a representation from whom, to the surprise of every body, and of none more than the commander of the troops, he was recalled from his situation in Corsica. This seemed the more extraordinary, because, independent of the cool intrepidity, zeal for the service, and the professional...
Էջ 242 - I can rely on the account of fome, who, by a long refidence in that city, and an extenfive acquaintance with the inhabitants, may be fuppofed to have acquired a more accurate knowledge of their manners than the king had any opportunity of doing. ' Though far lefs gay, the manners of the inhabitants of Madrid were, when I was there...