Confessions of country quarters, Volumul 635 |
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Pagina 8
... light work pertaining to that dismal formality ; sits next to non - military strangers when they dine at mess , and fur- nishes conversation suitable to their capa- cities and stations in life - a duty which might possibly prove ...
... light work pertaining to that dismal formality ; sits next to non - military strangers when they dine at mess , and fur- nishes conversation suitable to their capa- cities and stations in life - a duty which might possibly prove ...
Pagina 10
... Light Dragoons , has an article of plate that was captured in the carriage of Napoleon ; or of china that belonged to the celebrated Hokypokywousky wah , who drowned himself at Tchongquoaintsiaoun to save himself from the slaughter ...
... Light Dragoons , has an article of plate that was captured in the carriage of Napoleon ; or of china that belonged to the celebrated Hokypokywousky wah , who drowned himself at Tchongquoaintsiaoun to save himself from the slaughter ...
Pagina 12
... light company , whose duty it may be , on active service and under circumstances of peculiar exposure , to protect the rear of the regiment from the chastisement inflicted by a too im- petuous enemy that hangs obstinately on its skirts ...
... light company , whose duty it may be , on active service and under circumstances of peculiar exposure , to protect the rear of the regiment from the chastisement inflicted by a too im- petuous enemy that hangs obstinately on its skirts ...
Pagina 14
... light dragoons commonly has . With so liberal an allowance , I could not have looked him in the face if I had any debts , so I contracted none ; but if I had , I have no doubt he would have paid anything in reason , for 14 CONFESSIONS OF.
... light dragoons commonly has . With so liberal an allowance , I could not have looked him in the face if I had any debts , so I contracted none ; but if I had , I have no doubt he would have paid anything in reason , for 14 CONFESSIONS OF.
Pagina 16
... light , less fitted for the dinner - table than the tea- table , which is eminently their sphere , until some , that I have seen , become perfectly lady - like , if we may apply such an expres- sion to a true Briton . I know one thing ...
... light , less fitted for the dinner - table than the tea- table , which is eminently their sphere , until some , that I have seen , become perfectly lady - like , if we may apply such an expres- sion to a true Briton . I know one thing ...
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Pagina 259 - Nay then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness : And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting. I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Pagina 248 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pagina 126 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Pagina 197 - The endeavour of this present breath may buy That honour, which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.
Pagina 126 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell...
Pagina 109 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Pagina 11 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven, to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years.
Pagina 20 - Act, other than the Person thereunto authorized by Law, shall assume or use the Name, Style, or Title of Archbishop of any Province, Bishop of any Bishoprick, or Dean of any Deanery, in England or Ireland, he shall for every such Offence forfeit and pay the Sum of One hundred Pounds.
Pagina 256 - They come, in dim procession led, The cold, the faithless, and the dead ; As warm each hand, each brow as gay, As if they parted yesterday.
Pagina 183 - Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys, Why, soldiers, why ? Whose business 'tis to die...