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... soul as well as the body ? was the veteran being awkwardly displayed in the captain ? In a word , was the genius , as many histo- rians of reputation have believed , eclipsed ? was he becoming frenzied , in order to con- ceal WATERLOO .
... soul as well as the body ? was the veteran being awkwardly displayed in the captain ? In a word , was the genius , as many histo- rians of reputation have believed , eclipsed ? was he becoming frenzied , in order to con- ceal WATERLOO .
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... soul , coated with granite , was radiant . The man who had been sombre at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo . The great est predestined men offer these contradic tions , for our joys are a shadow and the WATERLO0 . 13 Charlotte Corday Nothing.
... soul , coated with granite , was radiant . The man who had been sombre at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo . The great est predestined men offer these contradic tions , for our joys are a shadow and the WATERLO0 . 13 Charlotte Corday Nothing.
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... soul ; each squadron undulated and swelled like the rings of a polype . This could be seen through a vast smoke , which was rent asunder at intervals ; it was a pell mell of helmets , shouts , and sabres , a stormy bounding of horses ...
... soul ; each squadron undulated and swelled like the rings of a polype . This could be seen through a vast smoke , which was rent asunder at intervals ; it was a pell mell of helmets , shouts , and sabres , a stormy bounding of horses ...
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... soul hardens a man , so that it changes the soldier into a statue , and all flesh be- comes granite . The English battalions though fiercely assailed , did not move . Then there was a frightful scene , all the faces of the English ...
... soul hardens a man , so that it changes the soldier into a statue , and all flesh be- comes granite . The English battalions though fiercely assailed , did not move . Then there was a frightful scene , all the faces of the English ...
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... souls laying down their swords . Those who had conquered Europe , fell crushed , having nothing more to say or do , and feeling a ter- rible presence in the shadow . Hoc erat in fatis . On that day , the perspective of the human race ...
... souls laying down their swords . Those who had conquered Europe , fell crushed , having nothing more to say or do , and feeling a ter- rible presence in the shadow . Hoc erat in fatis . On that day , the perspective of the human race ...
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الصفحة 311 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
الصفحة 280 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
الصفحة 280 - Bartholomew!" was passed from man to man ; But out spake gentle Henry, — " No Frenchman is my foe ; Down, down with every foreigner ! but let your brethren go.
الصفحة 160 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track; And one eye's black intelligence, — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance ! And the thick heavy spume-flakes which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned ; and cried Joris, " Stay spur ! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her, We'll remember at Aix...
الصفحة 160 - Good speed!' cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew ; ' Speed !' echoed the wall to us galloping through ; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
الصفحة 309 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown...
الصفحة 280 - A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
الصفحة 296 - Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
الصفحة 206 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
الصفحة 310 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.