The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 29John George Cochrane 1842 |
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... received in their turn a tribute for the assistance they afforded to them in time of war . Amongst these Slavonians the Servians were the most powerful , and it seemed in the fourteenth century * This subject has been more extensively ...
... received in their turn a tribute for the assistance they afforded to them in time of war . Amongst these Slavonians the Servians were the most powerful , and it seemed in the fourteenth century * This subject has been more extensively ...
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... received grain . In exchange , he required twice in the year a tribute in money proportionate to the necessities of the administration , the poresa . As he distributed this by the counsel of the presidents of the nation , the knese ...
... received grain . In exchange , he required twice in the year a tribute in money proportionate to the necessities of the administration , the poresa . As he distributed this by the counsel of the presidents of the nation , the knese ...
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... received from him assistance in distress , and the sacredness of this tie is deemed so great as to render it superior to almost every other . The cause of this platonic friend- ship seems to lie in the want of mutual succour , which men ...
... received from him assistance in distress , and the sacredness of this tie is deemed so great as to render it superior to almost every other . The cause of this platonic friend- ship seems to lie in the want of mutual succour , which men ...
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... received his appointed reward . Meanwhile four janissaries usurped the supreme power under the name of Dahi , following perhaps the example of Dai of the Barbaresks , and left to the newly - appointed pasha , Assan Oglu , little more ...
... received his appointed reward . Meanwhile four janissaries usurped the supreme power under the name of Dahi , following perhaps the example of Dai of the Barbaresks , and left to the newly - appointed pasha , Assan Oglu , little more ...
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... received with marks of joy , and a pair of pistols and an Arabian horse were presented to him . " Behold , " said the pasha , presenting him to his suite , " my dear knes and adopted son . He is now all modesty and meekness ; but many a ...
... received with marks of joy , and a pair of pistols and an Arabian horse were presented to him . " Behold , " said the pasha , presenting him to his suite , " my dear knes and adopted son . He is now all modesty and meekness ; but many a ...
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Page 335 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Page 167 - Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded; the love-tale Infected Sion's daughters with like heat; Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch Ezekiel saw, when, by the vision led, His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
Page 463 - Conjectures and Researches concerning the Love, Madness, and Imprisonment of Torquato Tasso," which contains fine translations from Tasso and is otherwise valuable.
Page 337 - Gan thunder, and both ends of heaven ; the clouds From many a horrid rift abortive poured Fierce rain with lightning mixed, water with fire In ruin reconciled ; nor slept the winds Within their stony caves, but rushed abroad From the four hinges of the world, and fell On the vexed wilderness...
Page 340 - And the swink'd hedger at his supper sat ; I saw them under a green mantling vine, That crawls along the side of yon small hill, Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 83 - Ce ne sont pas les hommes ici qui prient les femmes, ce sont les femmes qui prient les hommes.
Page 340 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles, That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 477 - I never drink to excess, and have, without vanity, too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity. No, it is my PRIDE, my damn'd native unconquerable PRIDE, that plunges me into distraction.
Page 477 - Upon recollection I don't know how Mr. Clayfield could come by his letter, as I intended to have given him a letter, but did not. In regard to my motives for the supposed rashness, I shall observe, that I keep no worse company than myself. I never drink to excess, and have without vanity too much sense to be attached to the mercenary retailers of iniquity.
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