The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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... French out of Spain . It was a step of singular daring . Wellington had under his nominal command some 90,000 men , but they were widely scattered , composed of four different nationalities , were ill supplied and worse paid , and the ...
... French out of Spain . It was a step of singular daring . Wellington had under his nominal command some 90,000 men , but they were widely scattered , composed of four different nationalities , were ill supplied and worse paid , and the ...
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... French quite misread his strategy . Soult , on March 26 , wrote he was certain Wellington would march upon Andalusia to raise the siege of Cadiz . ' But Wellington , with more subtle strategy , proposed to raise the siege of Cadiz by ...
... French quite misread his strategy . Soult , on March 26 , wrote he was certain Wellington would march upon Andalusia to raise the siege of Cadiz . ' But Wellington , with more subtle strategy , proposed to raise the siege of Cadiz by ...
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... French army . Cotton had the obstinate courage that grows yet more stubborn in actual combat , characteristic of his race , and he clung to his position . In the deep folds of the treeless downs the full strength of the French was ...
... French army . Cotton had the obstinate courage that grows yet more stubborn in actual combat , characteristic of his race , and he clung to his position . In the deep folds of the treeless downs the full strength of the French was ...
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... French . The whole mass , French and British , struggling together , and smiting furiously at each other , went tumbling down the reverse slope . In the valley below were two guns , covered by some infantry pickets and another squadron ...
... French . The whole mass , French and British , struggling together , and smiting furiously at each other , went tumbling down the reverse slope . In the valley below were two guns , covered by some infantry pickets and another squadron ...
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... French bullets came sweeping over the columns , whose violent pace was continually accelerated . Thus moving for ten miles , yet keeping the most perfect order , both parties approached the Guareña , and the enemy , seeing the light ...
... French bullets came sweeping over the columns , whose violent pace was continually accelerated . Thus moving for ten miles , yet keeping the most perfect order , both parties approached the Guareña , and the enemy , seeing the light ...
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Page 89 - twas a famous victory. 'My father lived at Blenheim then, Yon little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground, And he was forced to fly: So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head.
Page 461 - In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom, And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls.
Page 461 - As if a door in heaven should be Opened and then closed suddenly, The vision came and went, The light shone and was spent.
Page 14 - PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL-HOLE. For her mind Shaped strictest plans of discipline. Sage schemes ! Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans ; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
Page 414 - It did ; and to prove that she did not keep them waiting, in a few minutes she came into the room in a loose white nightgown and shawl, her nightcap thrown off, and her hair falling upon her shoulders, her feet in slippers, tears in her eyes, but perfectly collected and dignified.
Page 137 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 90 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Page 325 - Behn curiously sealed up, with " private and confidential " on the packet, to my gay old grand-aunt. The next time I saw her afterwards she gave me back Aphra, properly wrapped up, with nearly these words : — " Take back your bonny Mrs. Behn, and if you will take my advice, put her in the fire ; for I found it impossible to get through the very first novel. But is it not...
Page 196 - Oh! if I were Queen of France, Or still better, Pope of Rome, I would have no fighting men abroad, No weeping maids at home.
Page 18 - And clap the padlock on their mind !" — And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had done him the honour to drink his health, he should propose " MERLIN the late Minister of Justice, and Trial by Jury .'