The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with NotesHenry Colburn, 1822 - 164 pages |
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Page 77 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he? What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals ? Or smoking forth, a hundred hawkers...
Page 131 - C'est ainsi qu'autrefois les annalistes barbares de l'Europe comptaient parmi les rois de France un Pharamond, et son père Marcomir, et des rois d'Espagne, de Suède, d'Ecosse, depuis le déluge. Il faut avouer que l'histoire , ainsi que la physique , n'a commencé à se débrouiller que sur la fin du xvi* siècle.
Page 10 - Ille, seu Parthos Latio imminentes Egerit justo domitos triumpho, Sive subjectos Orientis orae Seras et Indos, Te minor latum reget aequus orbem ; Tu gravi curru quaties Olympum, Tu parum castis inimica mittes Fulmina lucis.
Page 165 - This is not merely a work of opinions expressed in the ornamental style of the writer. It is a substantial account of Italy, and may be consulted for its facts by the historian, the traveller, and the topographer.