Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Bernh. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 - 349 pages |
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Page 7
... feelings in language softer and more pensive than we should have expected either from the way- wardness of his boyhood , or from the inflexible sternness of his later years . " I have no enjoyed , " says he , " one happy day since I ...
... feelings in language softer and more pensive than we should have expected either from the way- wardness of his boyhood , or from the inflexible sternness of his later years . " I have no enjoyed , " says he , " one happy day since I ...
Page 53
... feelings , that he thought it necessary to apologise to them for having avenged them on their most malignant enemy . The shower of wealth now fell copiously on the Company and its servants . A sum of eight hundred thousand pounds ...
... feelings , that he thought it necessary to apologise to them for having avenged them on their most malignant enemy . The shower of wealth now fell copiously on the Company and its servants . A sum of eight hundred thousand pounds ...
Page 69
... he had founded . This feeling manifested itself in the strongest manner at a very full General Court of Proprietors . Men of all parties , forgetting their feuds and trembling for their dividends , ex- LORD CLIVE . 69.
... he had founded . This feeling manifested itself in the strongest manner at a very full General Court of Proprietors . Men of all parties , forgetting their feuds and trembling for their dividends , ex- LORD CLIVE . 69.
Page 71
... feelings in language which , proceeding from a man so daring , so resolute , and so little given to theatrical display of sentiment , seems to us singularly touching . " Alas ! " he says , " how is the English name sunk ! I could not ...
... feelings in language which , proceeding from a man so daring , so resolute , and so little given to theatrical display of sentiment , seems to us singularly touching . " Alas ! " he says , " how is the English name sunk ! I could not ...
Page 81
... feeling against the Puritans which took place at the time of the Restoration , burst on the servants of the Company ... feelings which we have described . Foote brought on the stage an Anglo - Indian chief , dissolute , ungenerous , and ...
... feeling against the Puritans which took place at the time of the Restoration , burst on the servants of the Company ... feelings which we have described . Foote brought on the stage an Anglo - Indian chief , dissolute , ungenerous , and ...
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