Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Том 16, Брой 136 – Том 18, Брой 160William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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... hope of smothering it with their bodies . Black and naked , they were seen running through the flames , and resembling so many fiends . During this tremendous scene there were intervals of tranquillity , and then a solitary voice was ...
... hope of smothering it with their bodies . Black and naked , they were seen running through the flames , and resembling so many fiends . During this tremendous scene there were intervals of tranquillity , and then a solitary voice was ...
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... hope of holding out the place any longer , the surrender took place on the 21st of February 1809 ; the siege , one of the most cruel on record , having thus lasted two months . FIRST BRITISH SIEGE OF BADAJOZ . Wellington having driven ...
... hope of holding out the place any longer , the surrender took place on the 21st of February 1809 ; the siege , one of the most cruel on record , having thus lasted two months . FIRST BRITISH SIEGE OF BADAJOZ . Wellington having driven ...
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... hope , led by a young lieutenant , advanced to attempt an entrance on the night between the 6th and 7th of June . The forlorn - hope reached the glacis about midnight without being perceived , jumped into the ditch , but found that , in ...
... hope , led by a young lieutenant , advanced to attempt an entrance on the night between the 6th and 7th of June . The forlorn - hope reached the glacis about midnight without being perceived , jumped into the ditch , but found that , in ...
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... hope of some thirty men first , reach the gap in the fausse braie , fight , clamber , and struggle through the rubbish , scaling if necessary with their twelve - feet ladders , and cleaving obstacles with their axes . In the meantime a ...
... hope of some thirty men first , reach the gap in the fausse braie , fight , clamber , and struggle through the rubbish , scaling if necessary with their twelve - feet ladders , and cleaving obstacles with their axes . In the meantime a ...
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... hope , have jumped the counterscarp , and are dashing on to the gap in the fausse braie through balls and bullets . Nor are they the first to reach it . Already the parties who were to scour the fausse braie and the ditch to the right ...
... hope , have jumped the counterscarp , and are dashing on to the gap in the fausse braie through balls and bullets . Nor are they the first to reach it . Already the parties who were to scour the fausse braie and the ditch to the right ...
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Страница 11 - THE glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Страница 15 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Страница 20 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial, endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Страница 6 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Страница 27 - Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw. 0 make in me those civil wars to cease: 1 will good tribute pay, if thou do so. Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed, A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, A rosy garland and a weary head: And if these things, as being thine by right, Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me, Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.
Страница 9 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime; And take the harmless folly of the time. We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...