Historiettes, or, Tales of continental life, by the author of 'The English in Italy'.

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Sivu 310 - Tales of the Zenana ; or, A Nuwab's Leisure Hours. By the Author of " Pandurang Hari." With a Preface by Lord Stanley of Alderley. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 2U.
Sivu 211 - ... steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!
Sivu 310 - There is much, very much, that distinguishes these volumes from their competitors. The interest is well sustained, and the language elegant; and sketches of charming description, and observations, whose truth and beauty must be felt by all, are scattered like flowers over the pages. The book deserves not only to be read, as it will be, but to take a place for future enjoyment on the shelf with those novels which are preserved from the hasty oblivion that closes over so man" of their race."—Literary...
Sivu 224 - Ehrenbreitstein, with her shattered wall Black with the miner's blast, upon her height Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball Rebounding idly on her strength did light...
Sivu 224 - Yet shows of what she was, when shell and ball Rebounding idly on her strength did light : — A Tower of Victory ! from whence the flight Of baffled foes was watched along the plain : But Peace destroyed what War could never blight, And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain — On which the iron shower for years had poured in vain.
Sivu 312 - To tho',e who have not already devoured this work, we can promise a rich and delightful feast ; which we hope they may relish with a zest equal to that which, as we well recollect, attended our first perusal of these captivating Memoirs.
Sivu 301 - ... any of our military dandies. They are, however, a grown and good-natured race of schoolboys, brethren and comrades in every sense of the word, without any of the cat-o'-nine tails' austerity of our fieldofficers when addressing an inferior in rank. Then have they no vying in coxcombry or expense, in nought, in fact, save address at their weapon, and forwardness in the field. Florville's regiment was composed chiefly of boys at and under his own age, save one or two gray-haired veterans, who in...
Sivu 310 - GIORNATA; or, To THE DAY, a Novel. " There is much, very much, that distinguishes these volumes from their competitors. The interest is well sustained, and the language elegant; and sketches of charming description, and observations, whose truth and beauty must be felt by all, are scattered like flowers over the pages. The book deserves not only to be read, as it will be, but to take a place for future enjoyment on the shelf with those novels which are...
Sivu 28 - ... theories and systems, declare themselves a political body, and aspire to power, not for the love of office, but expressly to lend the additional weight and authority they would thereby obtain to the extension of that which they believe to be right. Isolation is rarely ever beneficial — and though party has been defined to be " the madness of many, for the gain of a few" — yet alt truly great measures under constitutional governments, must necessarily be carried by parties.
Sivu 312 - These entertaining papers evince an intimate acquaintance with the usages of fashionable life, which arc here discussed with much point, occasionally blended with strokes of elevated satire. A correct moral feeling prevails throughout; and, as emanating from a lady of high connexions, the work will doubtless be considered as possessing peculiar claims on the attention of the superior circles.

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