The Staff Officer; Or, The Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life, Volume 2E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 |
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... leave of this agreeable little group . Guided by the dangling luminary of the butler , we found our way to the Eagle and Child Inn ; for which es cort and civility , he received half - a - crown ; namely , from the captain six - pence ...
... leave of this agreeable little group . Guided by the dangling luminary of the butler , we found our way to the Eagle and Child Inn ; for which es cort and civility , he received half - a - crown ; namely , from the captain six - pence ...
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... leave to return to Ireland in search of his baggage , the loss , or mislay of which , he had pleaded ever since he joined , as his excuse for appearing more shabbily apparelled than any sergeant in the regiment . The actual command of ...
... leave to return to Ireland in search of his baggage , the loss , or mislay of which , he had pleaded ever since he joined , as his excuse for appearing more shabbily apparelled than any sergeant in the regiment . The actual command of ...
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... leave the regiment that he would have exchanged into one of the black corps then raising , I left no one behind me on whom I bestowed a thought of re- gret . I certainly highly respected and esteemed the major ; but he was a man with ...
... leave the regiment that he would have exchanged into one of the black corps then raising , I left no one behind me on whom I bestowed a thought of re- gret . I certainly highly respected and esteemed the major ; but he was a man with ...
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... strings and much out of tune . The good folks were quite disappointed at our leaving them at a quarter be- fore seven ; while , on our side , we were unwilling to inform them that we had not dined ; and were full 26 THE STAFF OFFICER ;
... strings and much out of tune . The good folks were quite disappointed at our leaving them at a quarter be- fore seven ; while , on our side , we were unwilling to inform them that we had not dined ; and were full 26 THE STAFF OFFICER ;
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... leave to fill a pauper's grave . Here the poor weaver , rising before light , toils incessantly all day ; his children , instead of pursuing those amusements natu- ral to youth , share in his toils , not merely while day - light lasts ...
... leave to fill a pauper's grave . Here the poor weaver , rising before light , toils incessantly all day ; his children , instead of pursuing those amusements natu- ral to youth , share in his toils , not merely while day - light lasts ...
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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