Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, Band 1Longmans, Green, 1876 - 475 Seiten |
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... spirits , it was remarked , were not high . The acclamations of the devoted thousands who surrounded him wherever he turned could not dispel the gloom which sate on his brow . Those who had seen him during his progress through ...
... spirits , it was remarked , were not high . The acclamations of the devoted thousands who surrounded him wherever he turned could not dispel the gloom which sate on his brow . Those who had seen him during his progress through ...
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... spirits . It was sus- tained on the field of battle by the excitement of action , by the hope of victory , by the strange influence of sympathy . All such aids were now taken away . The spoiled darling of the court and of the populace ...
... spirits . It was sus- tained on the field of battle by the excitement of action , by the hope of victory , by the strange influence of sympathy . All such aids were now taken away . The spoiled darling of the court and of the populace ...
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... spirit and various fortune , contended for the empire of the sea . Our sailors had not for- gotten the broom with which Tromp had threatened to sweep the Channel , or the fire which De Ruyter had lighted in the dockyards of the Medway ...
... spirit and various fortune , contended for the empire of the sea . Our sailors had not for- gotten the broom with which Tromp had threatened to sweep the Channel , or the fire which De Ruyter had lighted in the dockyards of the Medway ...
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... spirit than to zeal for any public cause . He seems to have thought resistance hopeless ; and in truth , to a military eye , the defences of Londonderry appeared contemptible . The fortifi- cations consisted of a simple wall overgrown ...
... spirit than to zeal for any public cause . He seems to have thought resistance hopeless ; and in truth , to a military eye , the defences of Londonderry appeared contemptible . The fortifi- cations consisted of a simple wall overgrown ...
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... spirit of the soldiers and citizens swelled up high and fierce against the dastardly and perfidious chief who had betrayed them . Many of his own officers declared that they no longer thought themselves bound to The Siege of Londonderry .
... spirit of the soldiers and citizens swelled up high and fierce against the dastardly and perfidious chief who had betrayed them . Many of his own officers declared that they no longer thought themselves bound to The Siege of Londonderry .
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Seite 474 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Seite 369 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.
Seite 461 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Seite 459 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously — ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Seite 462 - 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.
Seite 462 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Seite 460 - Till the proud peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales, Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light...
Seite 459 - The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down...
Seite 458 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer day, There came a gallant merchant-ship full sail to Plymouth Bay ; Her crew had seen Castile's black fleet, beyond Aurigny's Isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves lie heaving many a mile. At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial grace; And the tall Pinta, till the noon, had held her close in chase.
Seite 461 - With all its priest-led citizens, and all its rebel peers, And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land; And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand: And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...