The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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... English cavalry officer stalked from the midst of the smoke towards the line of infantry ; his gait was peculiarly rigid , and he appeared to hold a bloody bandkerchief to his heart ; but that which seemed a cloth was a broad and ...
... English cavalry officer stalked from the midst of the smoke towards the line of infantry ; his gait was peculiarly rigid , and he appeared to hold a bloody bandkerchief to his heart ; but that which seemed a cloth was a broad and ...
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... English Arapiles as a fixed point , and swinging round his army till his right rested on Aldea Tejada . What had been his first line facing Huerta , thus became bis rear , and the army now looked eastward to meet the wheel of the French ...
... English Arapiles as a fixed point , and swinging round his army till his right rested on Aldea Tejada . What had been his first line facing Huerta , thus became bis rear , and the army now looked eastward to meet the wheel of the French ...
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... English Arapiles , as if possessed by some mighty spirit , rushed violently down the interior slope of the mountain and entered the great basin , amidst a storm of bullets which seemed to shear away the whole surface of the earth over ...
... English Arapiles , as if possessed by some mighty spirit , rushed violently down the interior slope of the mountain and entered the great basin , amidst a storm of bullets which seemed to shear away the whole surface of the earth over ...
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... English words to the Sapphic metre . It was a parody of a similar attempt of Southey's , of which the following lines are an example . They are probably unknown even to some of the devoted band who have fought their way through The ...
... English words to the Sapphic metre . It was a parody of a similar attempt of Southey's , of which the following lines are an example . They are probably unknown even to some of the devoted band who have fought their way through The ...
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... English cavalry swept past the 88th , on their great charge , Mackie's Highland blood had kindled to flame ; he galloped to the flank of the cavalry , shared in the tumult and rapture of their mad ride , and , when it was over ...
... English cavalry swept past the 88th , on their great charge , Mackie's Highland blood had kindled to flame ; he galloped to the flank of the cavalry , shared in the tumult and rapture of their mad ride , and , when it was over ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Alba de Tormes answered army asked attack Balian of Ibelin batteries better Biggleswade Blenheim brigade British broke cavalry Ciudad Rodrigo command cried Cyrano daring dark dear door Dunborough English Ernoul eyes face feet fight fire Fishwick flank Follett French front galloping girl guns hand head heard heart hill honour horse Houldsworth infantry Jacobin Julia knew lady laugh Laura light live looked Lord Almeric ma'am Margaret Marlborough Marmont mind Miss Elizabeth morning never night officers once Oxbridge Pampesford passed Pomeroy poor reached regiment retreat riding Rolliad round Russian Saladin Salamanca Saracens seemed Sennacherib side siege Sir Augustus Sir Richard Etchingham smile soldiers squadrons stood swept talk Tantifer tell things Thomasson thought Tiberias Tolcarne told took troops turned tutor Urumea Vivian voice week Wellington Wexford Widge woman words
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Página 89 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Página 461 - In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Página 461 - As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent.
Página 14 - PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Página 414 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Página 137 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Página 90 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 325 - Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice, put her in the fire ; for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not...
Página 196 - Oh! if I were Queen of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I would have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home.
Página 18 - And clap the padlock on their mind !" — And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had done him the honour to drink his health, he should propose " MERLIN the late Minister of Justice, and Trial by Jury .'