Essay on Lord CliveMacmillan Company, 1907 - 190 pages |
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... afterwards . It is said that he carefully cultivated this remarkable gift , and that it remained almost unimpaired to the end of his life . His method of learning a new lan- guage was to begin with the Bible , and work at it for a while ...
... afterwards . It is said that he carefully cultivated this remarkable gift , and that it remained almost unimpaired to the end of his life . His method of learning a new lan- guage was to begin with the Bible , and work at it for a while ...
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... afterwards well known among the lesser poets , and who was then also a Cambridge stu- dent , a magazine whose columns should be filled chiefly by Cambridge men . This was Knight's Quarterly Maga- zine , and a group of brilliant young ...
... afterwards well known among the lesser poets , and who was then also a Cambridge stu- dent , a magazine whose columns should be filled chiefly by Cambridge men . This was Knight's Quarterly Maga- zine , and a group of brilliant young ...
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... afterward by an appointment as a Commissioner of the Board of Control , whose duty it was to look after the interests of the government in its relations with the East India Company . In December , 1832 , he was elected to Parliament ...
... afterward by an appointment as a Commissioner of the Board of Control , whose duty it was to look after the interests of the government in its relations with the East India Company . In December , 1832 , he was elected to Parliament ...
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... afterward called Nour Jehan , " The Light of the World , " was his famous , wise , and beautiful empress . See The Light of the Haram in Moore's Lalla Rookh . It was to Jehangir's court that Sir Thomas Roe went , in 1615 , as ambassador ...
... afterward called Nour Jehan , " The Light of the World , " was his famous , wise , and beautiful empress . See The Light of the Haram in Moore's Lalla Rookh . It was to Jehangir's court that Sir Thomas Roe went , in 1615 , as ambassador ...
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... developing something of that quiet and deep , but yet very passionate , love of nature that afterward characterized so many of his poems . He went to the University of Cambridge in due time , receiving his degree lvi INTRODUCTION.
... developing something of that quiet and deep , but yet very passionate , love of nature that afterward characterized so many of his poems . He went to the University of Cambridge in due time , receiving his degree lvi INTRODUCTION.
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Page 179 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page lxiii - THE poesy of this young Lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they Were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation...
Page 54 - English captives were left at the mercy of the guards, and the guards determined to secure them for the night in the prison of the garrison, a chamber known by the fearful name of the Black Hole.
Page 68 - ... to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long...
Page 54 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Page 68 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return.
Page 56 - Nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened. But it was some time before the soldiers could make a lane for the survivors, by piling up on each side the heaps of corpses on which the burning climate had already begun to do its loathsome work. When at length a passage was made, twenty-three ghastly figures, such as their own mothers would not have known, staggered one by one out of the charnel-house.
Page 69 - ... if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.