The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selection from His Letters and a Memoir, Issue 28, Volume 1Macmillan, 1869 |
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... Oudinot that his troops are to behave politely to us . Which troops came again yesterday within three miles , but have done nothing , and are said to be retiring . The Neapolitans , i.e. a detachment of 7,000 men near Palestrina , are ...
... Oudinot that his troops are to behave politely to us . Which troops came again yesterday within three miles , but have done nothing , and are said to be retiring . The Neapolitans , i.e. a detachment of 7,000 men near Palestrina , are ...
Page 149
... Oudinot , so he is off to Paris to see about it there . Meantime , I take it , Oudinot will only sulk without fighting . June 3 . On the contrary , just the reverse . They are at it , at - at - at it , with small arms frequent and ...
... Oudinot , so he is off to Paris to see about it there . Meantime , I take it , Oudinot will only sulk without fighting . June 3 . On the contrary , just the reverse . They are at it , at - at - at it , with small arms frequent and ...
Page 150
... Oudinot repudiates . There , but for the awful lies which all the newspapers , specially the ' Débats , ' ' Constitutionnel , ' and ' Times , ' indulge in , I would not have said a word thereupon . But they do lie , indeed ! June 3 . No ...
... Oudinot repudiates . There , but for the awful lies which all the newspapers , specially the ' Débats , ' ' Constitutionnel , ' and ' Times , ' indulge in , I would not have said a word thereupon . But they do lie , indeed ! June 3 . No ...
Page 151
... Oudinot is not the man . June 5 . This is the third day , and they are still outside . The Pancrazio untaken , and the Villa Pamfili in our hands still . June 18 , Monday . Going , going , and to - morrow I shall be gone . We have had a ...
... Oudinot is not the man . June 5 . This is the third day , and they are still outside . The Pancrazio untaken , and the Villa Pamfili in our hands still . June 18 , Monday . Going , going , and to - morrow I shall be gone . We have had a ...
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... Oudinot announced himself ready to enter . Assure yourself that there is nothing to deserve the name of the Terror . ' There may be timidity in the passiveness of the Moderates , and I will not say that if they tried resistance against ...
... Oudinot announced himself ready to enter . Assure yourself that there is nothing to deserve the name of the Terror . ' There may be timidity in the passiveness of the Moderates , and I will not say that if they tried resistance against ...
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Page 374 - The Forsaken Merman Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below. Now my brothers call from the bay; Now the great winds shoreward blow; Now the salt tides seaward flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away. This way, this way. Call her once before you go. Call once yet. In a voice that she will know...
Page 320 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 392 - tis true I have gone here and there And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 323 - Through busiest street and loneliest glen Are felt the flashes of his pen : He rules mid winter snows, and when Bees fill their hives : Deep in the general heart of men His power survives.
Page 390 - And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
Page 375 - On the blanch'd sands a gloom; Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will gaze, from the sand-hills, At the white, sleeping town; At the church on the hill-side — And then come back down. Singing: "There dwells a loved one, But cruel is she ! She left lonely for ever The kings of the sea.
Page 381 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And, in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny brow with shells, Retires a space, to see how fair she looks, Then proud runs up to kiss her.
Page 375 - The kings of the sea." But children, at midnight, When soft the winds blow, When clear falls the moonlight, When spring-tides are low; When sweet airs come seaward From heaths...
Page 344 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 276 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.