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Page 19
... turned into another river ( Illinois ) , which abridged their route and brought them directly to Lake Illinois 23. As a matter of fact , they were more than seven hundred miles from the gulf . ( Michigan ) . They were struck with the ...
... turned into another river ( Illinois ) , which abridged their route and brought them directly to Lake Illinois 23. As a matter of fact , they were more than seven hundred miles from the gulf . ( Michigan ) . They were struck with the ...
Page 27
... turned in disap- pointment to the little rest that was allowed them . They fought manfully , wasting no am- munition and making every shot count . Until the final assault , the execution done by the 6. The people of Texas assembled in a ...
... turned in disap- pointment to the little rest that was allowed them . They fought manfully , wasting no am- munition and making every shot count . Until the final assault , the execution done by the 6. The people of Texas assembled in a ...
Page 33
... turned upon Mexicans in the fort and did terrible execution . Who handled it is not exactly known , but near it were found the bodies of David Crockett and five of his companions . It is said , though pos- sibly without much foundation ...
... turned upon Mexicans in the fort and did terrible execution . Who handled it is not exactly known , but near it were found the bodies of David Crockett and five of his companions . It is said , though pos- sibly without much foundation ...
Page 74
... turned toward the sun ; its aspect was a southern one , and its snows had been melted and recongealed to hard ice . The axe of Almer rang against the obdurate solid , and its fragments whirred past us with a weird- like sound to the ...
... turned toward the sun ; its aspect was a southern one , and its snows had been melted and recongealed to hard ice . The axe of Almer rang against the obdurate solid , and its fragments whirred past us with a weird- like sound to the ...
Page 84
... turned into dykes ; in the tents the water is sometimes a foot deep ; our men have not either warm or waterproof clothing ; they are out for twelve hours at a time in the trenches ; they are plunged into the inevitable miseries of a ...
... turned into dykes ; in the tents the water is sometimes a foot deep ; our men have not either warm or waterproof clothing ; they are out for twelve hours at a time in the trenches ; they are plunged into the inevitable miseries of a ...
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Page 285 - Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme: How guiltless blood for guilty man was shed; How He Who bore in Heaven the second name Had not on earth whereon to lay His head; How His first followers and servants sped; The precepts sage they wrote to many a land; How he, who lone in' Patmos banished, Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Bab'lon's doom pronounced by Heaven's command. Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs...
Page 37 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress...
Page 431 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want, Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults As you from crimes would pardon'd be Let your indulgence set me free.
Page 415 - Some heavenly music, which even now I do, To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound I'll drown my book.
Page 377 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver : there would this monster make a man : any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 415 - gainst my fury Do I take part : the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance : they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel : My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore, And they shall be themselves.
Page 262 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Page 391 - Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears ; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again : and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me ; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.
Page 231 - May the great God, whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet! For myself individually, I commit my life to Him that made me; and may his blessing alight on my endeavours for serving my country faithfully!
Page 38 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...