The Lisbon Guide, Or, An Historical and Descriptive View of the City of Lisbon and Its Environs: With Notices of the Chief Places of Interest in Portuguese Estremadura[Anonymus AC10074690] |
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Page 77 - Ave Maria! blessed be the hour, The time, the clime, the spot, where I so oft Have felt that moment in its fullest power Sink o'er the earth so beautiful and soft...
Page 213 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies ;' And ' dust to dust
Page 184 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ; Sure these denote one universal joy.
Page 194 - Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received, a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity for the one party, to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other, as if he constantly remembered the obligation.
Page 191 - It is not at this time of day, or in this spot, that I am called upon to justify these hopes against the imputation of extravagance. Whether as a just and natural consequence of perseverance in a good cause, or whether by the special favour of Providence, true it is, in fact, that from this nook of Europe proceeded...
Page 258 - Roses of white marble and wreaths of palm branches, most exquisitely sculptured, enrich every part of the edifice. I never saw Corinthian capitals better modelled, or executed with more precision and sharpness, than those of the columns which support the nave.
Page 192 - ... ancient convulsions of nature, or by the sportive sacrilege and barbarous malignity of the foe — I cannot behold the traces of desolation in this country, and of suffering among the people, — 'without rendering a just homage to the character of...
Page 192 - I cannot consider all these things without blessing that wise and beneficent policy, which brought England with timely speed, to the aid of such a nation ; to call forth its energies, to marshal its resources, to support and invigorate its unyielding constancy, and after its own deliverance was achieved, to lead it forth in pursuit of its oppressor. To have fought together in such a cause, to have mingled banners, and to have mingled blood in battles for such interests, and leading to such results,...
Page 38 - ... or, in the worst event, to prevent the Portuguese fleet from falling into the possession of the enemy. A most vigorous blockade of the Tagus was immediately resolved upon ; but after a few days the intercourse of the British ambassador and the court was renewed, at the request of the former, who, on...
Page 39 - Highness's absence from Europe. This morning the Portuguese Fleet left the Tagus. I had the honour to accompany the Prince in his passage over the bar. The Fleet consisted of eight sail of the line, four large frigates, several armed brigs, sloops, and corvettes, and a number of Brazil ships, amounting, I believe, to about thirty-six sail in all.