But the grandest chapter of our experience, within the whole mail-coach service, was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory. A period of about ten years stretched from Trafalgar to Waterloo ; the second and third years... Miscellaneous Essays - Seite 147von Thomas De Quincey - 1865 - 280 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1849 - 802 Seiten
...introduced (though playfully) by the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. OOINO DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession of victories ; the least of which,... | |
| 1849 - 844 Seiten
...introduced (though playfully) by the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. OOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession of victories ; the least of which,... | |
| 1849 - 822 Seiten
...the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. OOIN6 DOWN WITH VICTORT. But the grandest chapter of onr experience, within the whole mail-coach service, was...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession of victories ; the loast of which,... | |
| 1849 - 812 Seiten
...introduced though playfully) by the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. GOING DOWN WITH VICTO К Y. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...the second and third years of which period (1806 and 1807)'were comparatively sterile; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 Seiten
...the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...Waterloo; the second and third years of which period (180G and 1807) were comparatively sterile; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 380 Seiten
...the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories; * " Households : " — Roe-deer do not congregate in herds like the fallow or the red deer, but by... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 382 Seiten
...the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories ; * " Households : " — Roe-deer do not congregate in herds like the fallow or the red deer, but by... | |
| William Lewins - 1865 - 362 Seiten
...says one who often rode the coaches between 1805 and 1815 (a memorable period for the English arms) " was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory." " Five years of life," adds this eloquent and enthusiastic writer, "it was worth paying down for the... | |
| Harold Esdaile Malet, Nimrod - 1876 - 470 Seiten
...traveller between 1 ' Selections, Grave and Gay.' 1805 and 1815 (a memorable period for the English arms) ' was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory.' Daily each part of every coach was very critically inspected by a regular inspector ; every morning... | |
| Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 Seiten
...passionate burst of grief for his gallant soldiers. SIR W. NAPIER. GOING DOWN WITH NEWS OF VICTORY. THE grandest chapter of our experience, within the...were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1807 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories ; the least of which, in such a... | |
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