 | Anna Seward - 1810 - Страниц: 410
...written at that period, contained the following sentence. " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stript of every thing except the picture of Honora,...mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate." 1, 14. Intrepid Portia. — " Brutus. Impatient of my absence, " And grieved that young Octavius, with... | |
 | Anna Seward - 1817 - Страниц: 204
...few years ago, container! the following sentence.— " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stript of every thing, except the picture of Honora, •which I preserved in my mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate." To my sad heart each dawn has... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1835 - Страниц: 362
...afterwards he said, in a letter to a friend, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the picture of Honora, which...mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate." The picture had been delineated from the living features of the object of his affection by his own... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1835 - Страниц: 372
...afterwards he said, in a letter to a friend, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the picture of Honora, which...mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate." The picture had been delineated from the living features of the object of his affection by his own... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - 1844 - Страниц: 410
...in a letter to a friend, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of everything except the picture of Honora, which I concealed in...mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate." The picture had been delineated from the living features of the object of his affection, by his own... | |
 | Robert Bolton - 1848 - Страниц: 672
...afterwards, in a letter to a friend, he observes, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the picture of Honora, which I concealed in my mouth. Preserving that, I think myself fortunate."* To this touching incident Anna Seward refers in her poem upon Andre. " Sliade... | |
 | Robert Bolton - 1848 - Страниц: 642
...afterwards, in a letter to a friend, he observes, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the picture of Honora, which I concealed in ray mouth. Preserving that, I think myself fortunate."* To this touching incident Anna Seward refers... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - Страниц: 948
...written to a friend from that place, he said, " I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped s I shall send a polacca As deep as she'll swim, sir,...tobacco." "DIALOGUE BETWEEN LORDS MANSFIELD AND DUNMORE This picture had been delineated by his own hand from the living features of his beloved, at the time... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - Страниц: 460
...he wrote as follows, to a friend: — "I " have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of "every thing, except the picture of Honora, which...mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself "fortunate." The miniature which he mentions, had been painted by himself. His person was handsome, his manners... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - Страниц: 454
...he wrote as follows, to a friend : — " I have been " taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every " thing, except the picture of Honora, which..." in my mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself for" tunate." The miniature which he mentions, had been painted by himself. His person was handsome,... | |
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I have been taken prisoner by the Americans, and stripped of every thing except the picture of Honora, which I concealed in my mouth. Preserving that, I yet think myself fortunate. 
