The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 pages |
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... followed by a hand- ful of men , as far as the internal defences of the place . He had al- ready mounted the inner glacis , when he was wounded in many places , and precipitated into the ditch ; and , as his followers were unable to ...
... followed by a hand- ful of men , as far as the internal defences of the place . He had al- ready mounted the inner glacis , when he was wounded in many places , and precipitated into the ditch ; and , as his followers were unable to ...
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... followed by dissensions and quarrels among the troops themselves . The guards , proud of their fame in arms , and of their title and privileges , were objects of the jealousy of the other corps of the army , and this they repaid by ...
... followed by dissensions and quarrels among the troops themselves . The guards , proud of their fame in arms , and of their title and privileges , were objects of the jealousy of the other corps of the army , and this they repaid by ...
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... followed a struggle of a new and singular kind , and which was maintained for a length of time . As often as the British endeavoured to advance from the skirts of the wood , in order to form in front of it , they were charged by the ...
... followed a struggle of a new and singular kind , and which was maintained for a length of time . As often as the British endeavoured to advance from the skirts of the wood , in order to form in front of it , they were charged by the ...
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... followed by General Thielman , with the left wing , who , after evacuating the village of Sombref , which he had maintained during the whole preceding day , formed the rear - guard of the Prince- Marshal's army . Being now at length ...
... followed by General Thielman , with the left wing , who , after evacuating the village of Sombref , which he had maintained during the whole preceding day , formed the rear - guard of the Prince- Marshal's army . Being now at length ...
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... followed by a retreat equally laborious to the soldier ; and the defeat of the Prussians , which was now rumoured with the usual allowance of exaggeration , had left Bonaparte at liberty to assail them separately , and with his whole ...
... followed by a retreat equally laborious to the soldier ; and the defeat of the Prussians , which was now rumoured with the usual allowance of exaggeration , had left Bonaparte at liberty to assail them separately , and with his whole ...
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Popular passages
Page 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Page 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Page 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Page 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Page 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.