The Staff Officer; Or, The Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life, Volume 2E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 |
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... hope that the first and only act , in which I had laid myself open to his censure during my service under him , would be overlooked by one so much my superior in rank , in sense , and years . I received no answer ! I saw my major of ...
... hope that the first and only act , in which I had laid myself open to his censure during my service under him , would be overlooked by one so much my superior in rank , in sense , and years . I received no answer ! I saw my major of ...
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... hopes of supplying in a short time the old lady's place by some young and wealthy English heiress ; for , with all the humility he felt in other respects , he had all his country's vanity on this point to a most ludicrous degree . When ...
... hopes of supplying in a short time the old lady's place by some young and wealthy English heiress ; for , with all the humility he felt in other respects , he had all his country's vanity on this point to a most ludicrous degree . When ...
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... hope to be when I next have the happiness to meet her . Do me justice in her heart , and I shall depart with feelings of love and gratitude ! " I had worked myself up to a kind of tragedy rant , and like the player king in Hamlet ...
... hope to be when I next have the happiness to meet her . Do me justice in her heart , and I shall depart with feelings of love and gratitude ! " I had worked myself up to a kind of tragedy rant , and like the player king in Hamlet ...
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... hopes deferred , not destroyed ; and talked to me of my return as if the day for it was already fixed . Poor little thing ! She knew not the instability of her own heart . It was probably the first time she thought she loved ; and ...
... hopes deferred , not destroyed ; and talked to me of my return as if the day for it was already fixed . Poor little thing ! She knew not the instability of her own heart . It was probably the first time she thought she loved ; and ...
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... hope of whites , which he vowed had latterly become " as tender as stewed veal . " — " But now , " add- ed Jack , giving his seat of honour a sonorous smack of his broad and hairy hand , " HEAVEN and EARTH must come together before ...
... hope of whites , which he vowed had latterly become " as tender as stewed veal . " — " But now , " add- ed Jack , giving his seat of honour a sonorous smack of his broad and hairy hand , " HEAVEN and EARTH must come together before ...
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The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life Oliver Moore No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 205 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 98 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 92 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 39 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Page 201 - The adventures follow each other with delightful rapidity and variety ; occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we feel not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the parties have originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of pulling an ear.
Page 202 - Admirable. Truly, intensely Irish. The whole book has the brogue — never were the outrageous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically displayed; nor, in the midst of all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a jewel, and he will be reviewed next number. Shepherd. The Eerishers are marchin in leeterature, pawri pashu? wi