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... , the Aztec capital , gave evidence of the public prosperity . Its frail tenements were sup- planted by solid structures of stone and lime . Its population rapidly increased . Its old feuds were healed AZTEC CIVILIZATION .
... , the Aztec capital , gave evidence of the public prosperity . Its frail tenements were sup- planted by solid structures of stone and lime . Its population rapidly increased . Its old feuds were healed AZTEC CIVILIZATION .
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... gave Blucher time to come up . Why ? because the ground was moist and it was necessary for it to become firmer , that the artillery might manœuvre . Napoleon was an artillery officer , and al- ways showed himself one ; all his battle ...
... gave Blucher time to come up . Why ? because the ground was moist and it was necessary for it to become firmer , that the artillery might manœuvre . Napoleon was an artillery officer , and al- ways showed himself one ; all his battle ...
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... gave his English- Halkett's regiments , Mitchell's brigade , and Maitland's guards - as epaulments and coun- terforts , the Brunswick infantry , the Nassau contingent , Kielmansegge's Hanoverians , and Ompteda's Germans . He had thus ...
... gave his English- Halkett's regiments , Mitchell's brigade , and Maitland's guards - as epaulments and coun- terforts , the Brunswick infantry , the Nassau contingent , Kielmansegge's Hanoverians , and Ompteda's Germans . He had thus ...
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... gave the total for the plan he had drawn up was admirable . - victory . If the commencement was wrong , Once the battle had begun , its various in- cidents the resistance of Hougomont ; the tenacity of La Haye Sainte ; Bauduin killed ...
... gave the total for the plan he had drawn up was admirable . - victory . If the commencement was wrong , Once the battle had begun , its various in- cidents the resistance of Hougomont ; the tenacity of La Haye Sainte ; Bauduin killed ...
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... gave Milhaud's cuirassiers orders to carry the plateau of Mont St. Jean . CHAPTER IX . A SURPRISE . They were three thousand five hundred in number , and formed a front a quarter of a league in length ; they were gigantic men mounted on ...
... gave Milhaud's cuirassiers orders to carry the plateau of Mont St. Jean . CHAPTER IX . A SURPRISE . They were three thousand five hundred in number , and formed a front a quarter of a league in length ; they were gigantic men mounted on ...
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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.