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... carrying it . The farm - buildings border the court - yard on the south , and a piece of the northern gate , broken by the French , hangs from the wall . It consists of four planks nailed on two cross - beams , and the scars of the ...
... carrying it . The farm - buildings border the court - yard on the south , and a piece of the northern gate , broken by the French , hangs from the wall . It consists of four planks nailed on two cross - beams , and the scars of the ...
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... carry this hedge , and found the wall an obstacle and an ambus- cade ; the English Guards , behind the thirty- eight loop - holes , firing at once a storm of canister and bullets ; and Soye's brigade was dashed to pieces against it ...
... carry this hedge , and found the wall an obstacle and an ambus- cade ; the English Guards , behind the thirty- eight loop - holes , firing at once a storm of canister and bullets ; and Soye's brigade was dashed to pieces against it ...
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... carry Mont St. Jean , seize Brussels , drive the German into the Rhine and the Englishman into the sea - All this was contained for Napoleon in this battle : afterwards he would see . We need hardly say that we do not pre- tend to tell ...
... carry Mont St. Jean , seize Brussels , drive the German into the Rhine and the Englishman into the sea - All this was contained for Napoleon in this battle : afterwards he would see . We need hardly say that we do not pre- tend to tell ...
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... carried . There is a detail to be noticed here . In the English infantry , especially in Kempt's brigade , there were many recruits , and these young soldiers valiantly withstood our formidable foot , and they behaved excel- lently as ...
... carried . There is a detail to be noticed here . In the English infantry , especially in Kempt's brigade , there were many recruits , and these young soldiers valiantly withstood our formidable foot , and they behaved excel- lently as ...
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... carried away . Wellington was coldly heroic ; there was a shower of cannon - balls , and his aid- de - camp Gordon was killed by his side . Lord Hill , pointing to a bursting shell , said to him , My Lord , what are your instruc tions ...
... carried away . Wellington was coldly heroic ; there was a shower of cannon - balls , and his aid- de - camp Gordon was killed by his side . Lord Hill , pointing to a bursting shell , said to him , My Lord , what are your instruc tions ...
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Side 311 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Side 280 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Side 280 - Bartholomew!" was passed from man to man ; But out spake gentle Henry, — " No Frenchman is my foe ; Down, down with every foreigner ! but let your brethren go.
Side 160 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
Side 160 - Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed !' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Side 309 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown...
Side 280 - A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Side 296 - Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Side 206 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Side 310 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.