The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 pages |
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... thought he could break the English archers with the lance , and charged with twelve hun- dred horse , crying , ' Mount- joye ! St. Denis ! ' But the ground was soft and slippery ; the flight of arrows that met them right in the face was ...
... thought he could break the English archers with the lance , and charged with twelve hun- dred horse , crying , ' Mount- joye ! St. Denis ! ' But the ground was soft and slippery ; the flight of arrows that met them right in the face was ...
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... thought . He came back determined to put everything to the hazard , and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow . The river was passed ; and at the close of a toilsome day's march , the army ...
... thought . He came back determined to put everything to the hazard , and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow . The river was passed ; and at the close of a toilsome day's march , the army ...
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... thought proper to surrender , and the British colours for the first time waved over the rock of Gibraltar . No sooner were the Spaniards acquainted with the loss of this important fortress , than they made every effort to regain it ...
... thought proper to surrender , and the British colours for the first time waved over the rock of Gibraltar . No sooner were the Spaniards acquainted with the loss of this important fortress , than they made every effort to regain it ...
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... thought , of mistake ; and yet nothing can be more various and discordant than the statements on this point with re- gard to the battle of Waterloo . The Duke of Wellington and Blucher say that the battle commenced about ten ; General ...
... thought , of mistake ; and yet nothing can be more various and discordant than the statements on this point with re- gard to the battle of Waterloo . The Duke of Wellington and Blucher say that the battle commenced about ten ; General ...
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... thought to have done wonders in reducing his , by the extent of his personal in- fluence , to smaller dimensions than ever known before ; yet , in addition to troops , horses , and bullocks , his camels , amounting to 1500 , extended ...
... thought to have done wonders in reducing his , by the extent of his personal in- fluence , to smaller dimensions than ever known before ; yet , in addition to troops , horses , and bullocks , his camels , amounting to 1500 , extended ...
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Page 152 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 91 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Page 91 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Page 154 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Page 207 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Page 92 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Page 62 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 195 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Page 113 - ... their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Page 167 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.