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12. oldal
... never before witnessed such a spectacle as the field presented , but upon this I will not dwell . " Having submitted to your Grace this imperfect description of this most severe battle , I have still two duties to discharge , the one ...
... never before witnessed such a spectacle as the field presented , but upon this I will not dwell . " Having submitted to your Grace this imperfect description of this most severe battle , I have still two duties to discharge , the one ...
22. oldal
... never had such a dinner in their lives . " My kind love to my cousin Hinton and Mrs. Morgan , and to John Brown and his wife . I sent two shillings , and Stevenson sixpence , to drink with you at Mr. Cook's , but I have heard nothing ...
... never had such a dinner in their lives . " My kind love to my cousin Hinton and Mrs. Morgan , and to John Brown and his wife . I sent two shillings , and Stevenson sixpence , to drink with you at Mr. Cook's , but I have heard nothing ...
35. oldal
... SEA . " Wouldst thou " - ' -so the helmsman answered- " Learn the secret of the sea ? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery ! " LONGFELLOW . PERILS AT SEA . NEVER is the discipline of regiments Perils at.
... SEA . " Wouldst thou " - ' -so the helmsman answered- " Learn the secret of the sea ? Only those who brave its dangers Comprehend its mystery ! " LONGFELLOW . PERILS AT SEA . NEVER is the discipline of regiments Perils at.
40. oldal
... never read anything so satis- factory as this report , " and expressed a wish that he “ had received this statement at an earlier period after this misfortune occurred . " " The reserve battalion of the Ninety - first Regi- ment arrived ...
... never read anything so satis- factory as this report , " and expressed a wish that he “ had received this statement at an earlier period after this misfortune occurred . " " The reserve battalion of the Ninety - first Regi- ment arrived ...
41. oldal
... never lessened , was rendered more terrible by one of the most awful storms of thunder and lightning that had ever been witnessed in Table Bay . While the force of the wind and sea was driving the ship into shoaler water , she rolled ...
... never lessened , was rendered more terrible by one of the most awful storms of thunder and lightning that had ever been witnessed in Table Bay . While the force of the wind and sea was driving the ship into shoaler water , she rolled ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
381. oldal - Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience ; and dying so, death is to him advantage ; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained : and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think that, making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to see his greatness, and to teach others how they should prepare.
307. oldal - From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face...
305. oldal - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
319. oldal - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
304. oldal - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
319. oldal - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
307. oldal - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
366. oldal - ... was something in his looks and voice and manner superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him ; so that before...
363. oldal - But he knows me not,' said he, a second time musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musketshot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
304. oldal - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!