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... less reliable than veteran prosecution , the authorities at home were by no troops . Napoleon saw his advantage , and made a means cooperating with him in the spirit and with second and overwhelming descent upon Spain . the energy which ...
... less reliable than veteran prosecution , the authorities at home were by no troops . Napoleon saw his advantage , and made a means cooperating with him in the spirit and with second and overwhelming descent upon Spain . the energy which ...
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... less enemy , at an enormous expense of life and and which was often much less - had driven out treasure . Dastards in the field , the Spanish were braggarts when the danger was over ; while the weak and profligate functionaries of the ...
... less enemy , at an enormous expense of life and and which was often much less - had driven out treasure . Dastards in the field , the Spanish were braggarts when the danger was over ; while the weak and profligate functionaries of the ...
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... less depends the fate of the most beautiful combination - and a moment more or less is a question of glory or of shame . ( Hear , hear . ) Un- questionably , sir , all this may be done in an ordinary manner , by an ordinary man , as ...
... less depends the fate of the most beautiful combination - and a moment more or less is a question of glory or of shame . ( Hear , hear . ) Un- questionably , sir , all this may be done in an ordinary manner , by an ordinary man , as ...
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... less , perhaps , in admiration of his genius , than to vex Vanbrugh . They may be whigs or tories , and in accordance with their political views may dwell upon the splendid military career of him whose body is about to be borne forth ...
... less , perhaps , in admiration of his genius , than to vex Vanbrugh . They may be whigs or tories , and in accordance with their political views may dwell upon the splendid military career of him whose body is about to be borne forth ...
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... Less and less frequent became his visits - paler and paler grew the cheeks of Janet , and Lady Erskine thought she was perfectly justified in her coup - de- main . So she wrote to an honorable military Erskine , who , knowing very ...
... Less and less frequent became his visits - paler and paler grew the cheeks of Janet , and Lady Erskine thought she was perfectly justified in her coup - de- main . So she wrote to an honorable military Erskine , who , knowing very ...
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Page 316 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 266 - For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse : could we make her as the man, Sweet Love were slain : his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind ; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto...
Page 267 - Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw...
Page 31 - THERE is a bird who, by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow ; A great frequenter of the church, Where bishop-like he finds a perch, And dormitory too. Above the steeple shines a plate, That turns and turns, to indicate From what point blows the weather ; Look up — your brains begin to swim, 'Tis in the clouds — that pleases him, He chooses it the rather.
Page 96 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 263 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22.
Page 96 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 62 - Thro' either babbling world of high and low; Whose life was work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life; Who never spoke against a foe; Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers trampling on the right: Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named; Truth-lover was our English Duke; Whatever record leap to light He never shall be shamed.
Page 63 - Colossal, seen of every land, And keep the soldier firm, the statesman pure ; Till in all lands and thro' all human story The path of duty be the way to glory. And let the land whose hearths he saved from shame For many and many an age proclaim At civic revel and pomp and game, And when the...
Page 129 - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.