 | 1810 - 492 trang
...moment will be lost:" — and again: — '* I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of this court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a country of fiddlers and poets, strumpets and scoundrels." — The mob, he suid afterwards, were loyal, the nobility jacobins. When... | |
 | 1813 - 574 trang
...surrounded. ' \Vhat precious moments,' said he, ' the courts of Naples and Vienna are losing ! Three month* would liberate Italy; but this court is so enervated,...weakness he always retained; nor was he ever blind to ihe mingled folly and treachery of the Neapolitan ministers, and the complication of iniquities under... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 766 trang
...my Lord, in a week we shall all be at sea. I am very unwell; and the miserable conduct of this Court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." ' The news of the victory of the Nile did not reach England till the morning of October 2d, when the... | |
 | Arthur Collins, Sir Egerton Brydges - 1812 - 748 trang
...my Lord, in a week we shall all be at sea. I am very unwell; and the miserable conduct of this Court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." ' The news of the victory of the Nile did not reach England till the morning of October 2d, when the... | |
 | 1813 - 566 trang
...influence of the above-mentioned lady, became an auxiliary in the perfidious cruelty of the court. " What precious moments," said he, " the courts of Naples...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." The French after this got possession of Naples, owing to the imbecility and corruption ef the government,... | |
 | 1813 - 552 trang
...influence of the abovementioned lady, became an auxiliary in the perfidious cruelty of the court. " What precious moments," said he, " the courts of Naples...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." The French after this got possession of Naples, owing to the imbecility and corruption of the government,... | |
 | 1813 - 580 trang
...he was surrounded. ' What precious moments,1 said he, ' the courts of Naples and Vienna dre Ibsilig! Three months would liberate Italy ; but this court...scoundrels." This sense of their ruinous weakness lie always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the1 mingled folly and treachery of the Neapolitan ministers,... | |
 | 1813 - 550 trang
...perfidious cruelty of the court. " What precious moments," said he, " the courts of Naples and Vienna arc losing! Three months would liberate Italy; but this...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." The French after this got possession of Naples, owing to th« imbecility and corruption ef the government,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1813 - 306 trang
...losing ! Three "months would liberate Italy ; but this " court is so enervated, that the happy mo" ment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and " their miserable...It is a country " of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoun" drels." This sense of their ruinous weakness he always retained ; nor was he ever blind to the... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Matthew Henry Barker - 1836 - 500 trang
...enervated that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell, and the miserable conduct of this court is not likely to cool my irritable temper. It is a...country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels." Subsequent events furnished but too comNelson created a Peer. plete a justification of this seemingly... | |
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What precious moments," said he, " the courts of Naples and Vienna are losing ! Three months would liberate Italy ! but this court is so enervated, that the happy moment will be lost. I am very unwell ; and their miserable conduct is not likely to cool... 
