The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 78William Makepeace Thackeray Smith, Elder and Company, 1898 |
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... hill - slopes were slippery with a thousand rills ; a furious thunderstorm broke over the valley , where the tired armies , in great confusion , were trying to take up their positions . The peals of thunder were so deep and echoing ...
... hill - slopes were slippery with a thousand rills ; a furious thunderstorm broke over the valley , where the tired armies , in great confusion , were trying to take up their positions . The peals of thunder were so deep and echoing ...
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... hill near them . The French , vehement and swift - footed , reached the hill on their side first , seized it , and dashed on to the sister hill , which the slower , but more stubborn , British had half climbed . There was a struggle ...
... hill near them . The French , vehement and swift - footed , reached the hill on their side first , seized it , and dashed on to the sister hill , which the slower , but more stubborn , British had half climbed . There was a struggle ...
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... hill , Pakenham ? ' he said , pointing to where Maucune's columns were now showing . Move on with your division , and drive them to the d ' ! Pakenham saluted , and there are two versions of his reply . I will , my lord , by G- ' is the ...
... hill , Pakenham ? ' he said , pointing to where Maucune's columns were now showing . Move on with your division , and drive them to the d ' ! Pakenham saluted , and there are two versions of his reply . I will , my lord , by G- ' is the ...
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... hill the French came in a vehement charge , pushed home with fiery valour ; and the Portuguese broke . “ There was a cloud of smoke , a shout , a stream of fire , and the side of the hill was covered with the killed , the wounded , and ...
... hill the French came in a vehement charge , pushed home with fiery valour ; and the Portuguese broke . “ There was a cloud of smoke , a shout , a stream of fire , and the side of the hill was covered with the killed , the wounded , and ...
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... hill . To those who watched the fight from a little distance , the eddying fortunes of the attack and the defence were written in ever - changing characters of fire on the hill - slopes . In the darkness of the night the fire showed ...
... hill . To those who watched the fight from a little distance , the eddying fortunes of the attack and the defence were written in ever - changing characters of fire on the hill - slopes . In the darkness of the night the fire showed ...
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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 .'