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In spite of its thousands of guns , Cherbourg is not impregnable , as we have
been led to believe . Great errors have been committed in the construction of this
mighty fortress , principally in the armament of the mole , and the three forts
erected ...
In spite of its thousands of guns , Cherbourg is not impregnable , as we have
been led to believe . Great errors have been committed in the construction of this
mighty fortress , principally in the armament of the mole , and the three forts
erected ...
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They ' re synonymous , though , I believe . Fill your glass , and fire away , old boy
, pro bono publico , as the man may say who ' ll have pluck enough to shoot Nap .
III . " I did as I was told ( I leave the thirst for " pressing to young ladies who ...
They ' re synonymous , though , I believe . Fill your glass , and fire away , old boy
, pro bono publico , as the man may say who ' ll have pluck enough to shoot Nap .
III . " I did as I was told ( I leave the thirst for " pressing to young ladies who ...
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My chief chum , tormentor , and initiator was a little fellow , Cosmo Grandison I
believe his correct cognomen to have been , but in Ours he was Little Grand to
everybody , from the Colonel to the baggage - women . He was seventeen , and
had ...
My chief chum , tormentor , and initiator was a little fellow , Cosmo Grandison I
believe his correct cognomen to have been , but in Ours he was Little Grand to
everybody , from the Colonel to the baggage - women . He was seventeen , and
had ...
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... of course ; bless your soul , those theorists always are , if you ' re down upon '
em with a little fact ! ” “ Such as a Strasbourg pâté , that is an unanswerable
argument with most men , I believe , ” said Conran , who liked to hear the boy
chatter .
... of course ; bless your soul , those theorists always are , if you ' re down upon '
em with a little fact ! ” “ Such as a Strasbourg pâté , that is an unanswerable
argument with most men , I believe , ” said Conran , who liked to hear the boy
chatter .
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... just behind Little Grand , putting in pretty little speeches , and questions , and
bagatelles , and calling attention to the gambols of her darling greyhound
Cupidon , and tapping Little Grand with her fan , till , I believe , he neither knew
how the ...
... just behind Little Grand , putting in pretty little speeches , and questions , and
bagatelles , and calling attention to the gambols of her darling greyhound
Cupidon , and tapping Little Grand with her fan , till , I believe , he neither knew
how the ...
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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.