The Mohawks: A Satirical Poem with NotesHenry Colburn, 1822 - 164 pages |
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... quarters Of t'other Duke 13 of bombs and mortars , To beg a share of that protection , He lavish'd with so much affection , On Louis , when , with force unknown , He plump'd him once more on his throne ; - Producing that famed armistice ...
... quarters Of t'other Duke 13 of bombs and mortars , To beg a share of that protection , He lavish'd with so much affection , On Louis , when , with force unknown , He plump'd him once more on his throne ; - Producing that famed armistice ...
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... Quarterly " a clever article . " But when you've canvass'd all the Cabinet , Put on a train of silk , or tabinet , And , with these Patrons not contented , Get to the K- himself presented . G- , to old G- the Th - d succeeding , 16 By ...
... Quarterly " a clever article . " But when you've canvass'd all the Cabinet , Put on a train of silk , or tabinet , And , with these Patrons not contented , Get to the K- himself presented . G- , to old G- the Th - d succeeding , 16 By ...
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... Quarterly Reviews , Where authors were all set to the right tune ; " John Bull " might then have rested in the stews , From which it came , for its own friends too soon , Despised , disown'd , while its poor men of straw Suffer ...
... Quarterly Reviews , Where authors were all set to the right tune ; " John Bull " might then have rested in the stews , From which it came , for its own friends too soon , Despised , disown'd , while its poor men of straw Suffer ...
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... Quarterly Review , with bagpipe drone He ( The fervour of his zeal less brightlying ) , proses , like some ancient fire - side crone , O'er the same point returning and returning , Not deep , but muddy ; tiresome , though not full ...
... Quarterly Review , with bagpipe drone He ( The fervour of his zeal less brightlying ) , proses , like some ancient fire - side crone , O'er the same point returning and returning , Not deep , but muddy ; tiresome , though not full ...
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... , I see the smug divine , Some slight respect for independence shew ; The Quarterly the time's distresses feel , And as supplies diminish , grow genteel . CLIII . No , the imagination there runs wild , 110 THE MOHAWKS .
... , I see the smug divine , Some slight respect for independence shew ; The Quarterly the time's distresses feel , And as supplies diminish , grow genteel . CLIII . No , the imagination there runs wild , 110 THE MOHAWKS .
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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.