The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volum 2;Volumer 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 sider |
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Side iii
... Horse . LETTER XI - TO THE SAME . Road to Paris - Valenciennes - Garrison of Valenciennes - Dismay of the Inhabitants ... Horses - Discomforts felt by the British - Regulations of the Post respected - Towns - Cambray - Pe- ronne ...
... Horse . LETTER XI - TO THE SAME . Road to Paris - Valenciennes - Garrison of Valenciennes - Dismay of the Inhabitants ... Horses - Discomforts felt by the British - Regulations of the Post respected - Towns - Cambray - Pe- ronne ...
Side 8
... horses , and through vaulted arches , which resound to the eternal smack of his driver's whip . He is questioned by whiskered sentinels , his passports carefully examined , and his name recorded in the orderly - book ; and it is only ...
... horses , and through vaulted arches , which resound to the eternal smack of his driver's whip . He is questioned by whiskered sentinels , his passports carefully examined , and his name recorded in the orderly - book ; and it is only ...
Side 30
... horses . This last corps was composed of soldiers se- lected for their bravery and experience , and gave the most decisive proofs of both in the dreadful battle of Waterloo . Their cuirasses consisted of a breastplate and back , joined ...
... horses . This last corps was composed of soldiers se- lected for their bravery and experience , and gave the most decisive proofs of both in the dreadful battle of Waterloo . Their cuirasses consisted of a breastplate and back , joined ...
Side 42
... Horse shot - Repulse of the French Cavalry - Prussians retreat - Concentration of the Prussian Army at Wavre - Loss of the Prussians - British Army retreats -Bonaparte resolves to turn his whole Force against the British - Retreat of ...
... Horse shot - Repulse of the French Cavalry - Prussians retreat - Concentration of the Prussian Army at Wavre - Loss of the Prussians - British Army retreats -Bonaparte resolves to turn his whole Force against the British - Retreat of ...
Side 46
... horse - grenadiers of the guard , traversed the village of Ligny , now in flames , at the pas de charge , threw themselves into the ravine which separates the village from the heights , and began to ascend them , under a dreadful fire ...
... horse - grenadiers of the guard , traversed the village of Ligny , now in flames , at the pas de charge , threw themselves into the ravine which separates the village from the heights , and began to ascend them , under a dreadful fire ...
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Side 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Side 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Side 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Side 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Side 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Side 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Side 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Side 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Side 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Side 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.