The American Whig Review, 3. kötetWiley and Putnam, 1846 |
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48. oldal
... whole day , he started for Mantua . These indomita- ble troops moved off as if fresh from their bivouacs , rather than wearied with a whole night's rapid march and a suc- ceeding day of hard fighting , and marched all that night and the ...
... whole day , he started for Mantua . These indomita- ble troops moved off as if fresh from their bivouacs , rather than wearied with a whole night's rapid march and a suc- ceeding day of hard fighting , and marched all that night and the ...
50. oldal
... whole 10,000 at bay , while he slowly retreated in search of his lost column . Charge after charge of the overwhelming force of the Austrians was made on his little band ; but he held them by his pres- ence to the shock , with a ...
... whole 10,000 at bay , while he slowly retreated in search of his lost column . Charge after charge of the overwhelming force of the Austrians was made on his little band ; but he held them by his pres- ence to the shock , with a ...
51. oldal
... whole army he had led into Genoa . Nearly every man had killed or taken his man , and yet there were 12,000 left to struggle on . On the 10th of May Massena made another successful sally with his dimin- ished army . General Ott , of the ...
... whole army he had led into Genoa . Nearly every man had killed or taken his man , and yet there were 12,000 left to struggle on . On the 10th of May Massena made another successful sally with his dimin- ished army . General Ott , of the ...
54. oldal
... whole army was to pass , and the columns to charge ; for the deep , impetuous torrent could not be forded . But a gate closed the farther end of the bridge , while the houses filled with soldiers enfiladed the entire opening , and the ...
... whole army was to pass , and the columns to charge ; for the deep , impetuous torrent could not be forded . But a gate closed the farther end of the bridge , while the houses filled with soldiers enfiladed the entire opening , and the ...
55. oldal
... whole war than this . Mas- sena was compelled to throw his brave soldiers , whether dead or wounded , into the stream , to clear a passage for the col- umns . Whole companies falling at a time , they choked up the way and in- creased ...
... whole war than this . Mas- sena was compelled to throw his brave soldiers , whether dead or wounded , into the stream , to clear a passage for the col- umns . Whole companies falling at a time , they choked up the way and in- creased ...
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119. oldal - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
122. oldal - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
164. oldal - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
118. oldal - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
124. oldal - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
186. oldal - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
398. oldal - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
186. oldal - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
82. oldal - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
122. oldal - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.