Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, 16. kötet,136. kiadás -18. kötet,160. kiadásWilliam Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1847 |
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5. oldal
... eyes . Soon after , they were informed that Kirk , upon receiving information that the passage of the river to the town was barred by works erected by the enemy , had resolved to retire to the Inch , an island six miles from Londonderry ...
... eyes . Soon after , they were informed that Kirk , upon receiving information that the passage of the river to the town was barred by works erected by the enemy , had resolved to retire to the Inch , an island six miles from Londonderry ...
8. oldal
... common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of despair , they looked black in the eyes of each other . But in a 8 PICTURES OF WAR .
... common paleness of fear appeared not upon men who had lost all sense of it . One who was an eye - witness relates that , in the depth of despair , they looked black in the eyes of each other . But in a 8 PICTURES OF WAR .
9. oldal
William Chambers, Robert Chambers. in the eyes of each other . But in a little time the victualler was seen emerging from the smoke , having got off by the rebound of her own guns ; and she and the others , amid the tumultuous cries of ...
William Chambers, Robert Chambers. in the eyes of each other . But in a little time the victualler was seen emerging from the smoke , having got off by the rebound of her own guns ; and she and the others , amid the tumultuous cries of ...
11. oldal
... eyes on those poor victims of ambition and vanity , and said to myself , We cross the sea ; we brave the English fleet ; we disem- bark in a country which never thought of us ; we plunder their villages , and slay or ruin their ...
... eyes on those poor victims of ambition and vanity , and said to myself , We cross the sea ; we brave the English fleet ; we disem- bark in a country which never thought of us ; we plunder their villages , and slay or ruin their ...
13. oldal
... eyes , whilst women sat on heaps of arms , broken fur- niture , and baggage , with their heads bent between their knees . I had no inclination to follow the litters of the wounded ; yet I learned that every hospital in Cadiz was already ...
... eyes , whilst women sat on heaps of arms , broken fur- niture , and baggage , with their heads bent between their knees . I had no inclination to follow the litters of the wounded ; yet I learned that every hospital in Cadiz was already ...
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9. oldal - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
28. oldal - And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant posies ; A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
11. oldal - 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.
15. oldal - 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.
20. oldal - 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?
6. oldal - 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.
27. oldal - 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.
9. oldal - 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...