 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...niantal is extended over us." EARL OF PETERBOROUGH. The Earl of Peterborough, who Swift says shone " in all climates like a star, In senates bold, and fierce in war," was once surrounded by a mob in his way from the House of Lords, who took him for the Duke of Marlborough,... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - English poetry - 1833 - 386 pages
...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...a tar : Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, But by his namesake, Charles of Sweden. ON THE UNION. THE queen has lately... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - American literature - 1833 - 280 pages
...outrides the post, Sits up till midnight with his host, Talks politics and gives the toast," &c. ****** Shines in all climates like a star, In senates bold, and fierce in war, A land commander and a tar, &c. &c. The other lines are equally happy. Such a graphic delineation of character gives a more distinct... | |
 | Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - History - 1833 - 268 pages
...outrides the post, Sits up till midnight with his host, Talks politics and gives the toast," &c. ******, Shines in all climates like a star, In senates bold, and fierce in war, A land'commander and a tar, &c. &c. The other lines are equally happy. Such a graphic delineation of... | |
 | Emilia Georgiana Susanna REILLY - 1839 - 182 pages
...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, In Senates bold, and firm in war, A land commander and a tar. Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be matched in modern... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 1024 pages
...you like an apparition. Shines in till climates like a star ; In senates bold, and fierce in war ; Л land commander, and a tar : Heroic actions early bred in, Ne'er to be match'd in modern reading, Hut by his namesake, Charles of Sweden. Peterborough's haste was, in 1711,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...were it bigger. Si wonderful his expedition, When you have not the least suspicion, He 's with you Lets match'd in modern reading. But by his namesake, Citarles of .Sweden THE PROGRESS OF POETRY. THE farmer's... | |
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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; In senates bold, and fierce in war... 
