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Page 12
... ducks , though I was green enough to be a first - rate butt for the other young
chaps for many a day , and the practical jokes I had passed on me would have
furnished the Times with food for crushers on “ The Shocking State of the Army ”
for ...
... ducks , though I was green enough to be a first - rate butt for the other young
chaps for many a day , and the practical jokes I had passed on me would have
furnished the Times with food for crushers on “ The Shocking State of the Army ”
for ...
Page 23
In the winter of 1620 , half the army perished through lack of food , and they had
more than 4 , 500 , 000 florins owing them . Nor was the emperor much better off ,
though he received large aid from Spain . Saxony , in borrowing 12 , 000 florins ...
In the winter of 1620 , half the army perished through lack of food , and they had
more than 4 , 500 , 000 florins owing them . Nor was the emperor much better off ,
though he received large aid from Spain . Saxony , in borrowing 12 , 000 florins ...
Page 24
The army followers were under the special protection of an old invalid soldier ,
known by a far from flattering name , who took charge of all the plunder on the
march . It was his duty to keep them from straggling and spreading over the
villages ...
The army followers were under the special protection of an old invalid soldier ,
known by a far from flattering name , who took charge of all the plunder on the
march . It was his duty to keep them from straggling and spreading over the
villages ...
Page 63
Several Jews had already obtained high rank in the army . The progress of
events , however , anticipated illusions so brilliant to the Jewish imagination , and
, with the Restoration , the French Jews fell once more under the yoke of
oppression .
Several Jews had already obtained high rank in the army . The progress of
events , however , anticipated illusions so brilliant to the Jewish imagination , and
, with the Restoration , the French Jews fell once more under the yoke of
oppression .
Page 66
If I pass ou by night , the grand - duc , the owl , a whole army of horrible phantoms
with eyes magnified in the darkness , seize upon me , bear me off to their young
brood . . . . Alas ! what shall I do ? . . . I will try to escape day and night both .
If I pass ou by night , the grand - duc , the owl , a whole army of horrible phantoms
with eyes magnified in the darkness , seize upon me , bear me off to their young
brood . . . . Alas ! what shall I do ? . . . I will try to escape day and night both .
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Page 39 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Page 158 - And she hath watched Many a nightingale perch giddily On blossomy twig still swinging from the breeze, And to that motion tune his wanton song Like tipsy joy that reels with tossing head.
Page 153 - But first, and chiefest, with thee bring, Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Page 157 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme...
Page 74 - Ye woodlands all , awake : a boundless song Burst from the groves! and when the restless day, Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep, Sweetest of birds ! sweet Philomela , charm The listening shades, and teach the night his praise.
Page 310 - How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, And sunbeams melt along the silent sea ; For then sweet dreams of other days arise, And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. And, as I watch the line of light, that plays Along the smooth wave tow'rd the burning west, I long to tread that golden path of rays, And think 'twould lead to some bright isle of rest.
Page 78 - Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown: Perhaps the self-same song that found a path Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home She stood in tears amid the alien corn...
Page 72 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 157 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 68 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.