 | Daniel Defoe, George Carleton - Europe - 1808 - 516 pages
...were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you tike an apparition. Shines in all climates like a star...principle, he was disliked by most of his own party, and greatly caressed in consequence by the Tories. After his return to England, he obtained the regiment... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...The Christian world his deeds proclaim, And prints are crowded with his name. Heroic actions earl}' bred in, Ne'er to be matched in modern reading, But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden.' This friend of Swift is thus introduced by Lord Mahon : — * Closely resembling in his character the... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1829 - 532 pages
...time, by the Kov. Joseph Spence." London, " Mordanto fills the trump of fame," says that he was — " Ne'er to be matched in modern reading. But by his namesake Charles of Sweden;" but, if his report on the judiciary be correctly given by Mr. Spence, he will be entitled to the additional... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...fills the trump of fame, The Christian world his deeds proclaim, And prints are crowded with his name. Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be matched...reading, But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden.' This friend of Swift is thus introduced by Lord Mahon: — ' Closely resembling in his character the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...fills the trump of fame, The Christian world his deeds proclaim, And prints are crowded with his name. Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be matched...reading, But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden.' This friend of Swift is thus introduced by Lord Mahon : — ' Closely resembling in his character the... | |
 | Emilia Georgiana Susanna REILLY - 1839 - 182 pages
...suspicion, He's with you like an apparition. Shines in all climates like a star, In Senates bold, and firm in war, A land commander and a tar. Heroic actions...modern reading, But by his namesake Charles of Sweden. His enmity to the Duke of Maryborough, and his friendship with Pope, will preserve his name, when his... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 452 pages
...Spain. A messenger comes all a-reek, Mordanlo at Madrid to seek ; He left the town above a week. Next day the post-boy winds his horn. And rides through...modern reading, But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden. CM b Peterborough's haste was, in 1711, probably stimulated by the interest he took in the great public... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Great Britain - 1840 - 448 pages
...were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, lie's with yon like an apparition. Shines in all climates like a...modern reading. But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden. CM b Peterborough's haste was, in 1711, probably stimulated by the interest he took in the great public... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 728 pages
...and fierce in war ; A land commander, and a tur : Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, But by his namesake, Charles of...principle, he was disliked by most of his own party, and greatly caressed in i consequence by the Tories. After his return to England, he obtained the regiment... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1841 - 698 pages
...and fierce in war ; A land commander, and a tar: Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, But by his namesake, Charles of...principle, he was disliked by most of his own party, and greatly caressed in consequence by the Tories. After his return to England, he obtained the regiment... | |
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A skeleton in outward figure ; His meagre corpse, though full of vigour, Would halt behind him, were it bigger. So wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He's with you like an apparition. Shines in all climates like a star ;... 
