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... Lady Hamilton , 289 Russia , 87 , 237 , 386 228 Recamier , Madame , 97 Foreign Policy , 327 Orizaba , Ascent of , 158 • • France , 215 Switzerland , 89 • . Falkland Islands , Wild Optical Magic , Old Bailey Ladies , 319 Siege , the ...
... Lady Hamilton , 289 Russia , 87 , 237 , 386 228 Recamier , Madame , 97 Foreign Policy , 327 Orizaba , Ascent of , 158 • • France , 215 Switzerland , 89 • . Falkland Islands , Wild Optical Magic , Old Bailey Ladies , 319 Siege , the ...
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... Lady Hamilton to his country , and a incompatible - the popular credulity , and the un- grateful country left her to beggary . The said uttered disclaimer ; trimming between delusion grateful country accepted his services , which were ...
... Lady Hamilton to his country , and a incompatible - the popular credulity , and the un- grateful country left her to beggary . The said uttered disclaimer ; trimming between delusion grateful country accepted his services , which were ...
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als after his death . Lady Hamilton was tolerated | 56,300,0007 . At the same time , he contemplates on the deck of ... Emma was to share the injury ; no doubt , he would -that the number of persons in the United King- have gone in and ...
als after his death . Lady Hamilton was tolerated | 56,300,0007 . At the same time , he contemplates on the deck of ... Emma was to share the injury ; no doubt , he would -that the number of persons in the United King- have gone in and ...
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... Lady Hamilton . ] Memoirs of the Life of Vice - Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson , K. B. , Duke of Bronte , & c . , & c . By THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. , Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Göt- tingen , & c . , & c ...
... Lady Hamilton . ] Memoirs of the Life of Vice - Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson , K. B. , Duke of Bronte , & c . , & c . By THOMAS JOSEPH PETTIGREW , F.R.S. , F.S.A. , Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Göt- tingen , & c . , & c ...
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... lady then on land . It was at this period that he became known to the Duke of Clarence . The royal sailor thought him the merest boy of a captain that had ever been seen , and could not but laugh at the gigantic and end ... EMMA HAMILTON .
... lady then on land . It was at this period that he became known to the Duke of Clarence . The royal sailor thought him the merest boy of a captain that had ever been seen , and could not but laugh at the gigantic and end ... EMMA HAMILTON .
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Page 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Page 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Page 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Page 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Page 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Page 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...