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Strana 2
... thousand troops . These troops were disciplined in such a manner , that , placed beside them , the household regiments of Versailles and St. James would have appeared an awkward squad . The master of such a force could not but be ...
... thousand troops . These troops were disciplined in such a manner , that , placed beside them , the household regiments of Versailles and St. James would have appeared an awkward squad . The master of such a force could not but be ...
Strana 3
... thousand whims . His feeling about his troops seems to have resembled a miser's feeling about his money . He loved to collect them , to count them , to see them increase , but he could not find it in his heart to break in upon the ...
... thousand whims . His feeling about his troops seems to have resembled a miser's feeling about his money . He loved to collect them , to count them , to see them increase , but he could not find it in his heart to break in upon the ...
Strana 4
... thousand . The Prince - Royal showed little inclination either for the serious employments or for the amusements of his father . He shirked the duties of the parade - he detested the fume of tobacco- he had no taste either for ...
... thousand . The Prince - Royal showed little inclination either for the serious employments or for the amusements of his father . He shirked the duties of the parade - he detested the fume of tobacco- he had no taste either for ...
Strana 15
... thousand men . The news was carried late at night to a mill in which the king had taken shelter . It gave him a bitter pang . He was successful ; but he owed his success to dispositions which others had made FREDERICK THE GREAT . 15.
... thousand men . The news was carried late at night to a mill in which the king had taken shelter . It gave him a bitter pang . He was successful ; but he owed his success to dispositions which others had made FREDERICK THE GREAT . 15.
Strana 22
... thousand pounds sterling a year . The royal household was managed with a frugality unusual in the estab- lishments of opulent subjects - unexampled in any other palace . The king loved good eating and drinking , and during great part of ...
... thousand pounds sterling a year . The royal household was managed with a frugality unusual in the estab- lishments of opulent subjects - unexampled in any other palace . The king loved good eating and drinking , and during great part of ...
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Strana 39 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest. I never saw such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time.
Strana 25 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 9 - ... for objects in nature around me, that are in unison or harmony with the cogitations of my fancy, and workings of my bosom; humming every now and then the air, with the verses I have framed. When I feel my muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study, and there commit my effusions to paper; swinging at intervals on the hind legs of my elbowchair, by way of calling forth my own critical strictures, as my pen goes on. Seriously, this, at home, is almost invariably my way.
Strana 25 - We know nothing, or next to nothing, of the substance or structure of our souls, so cannot account for those seeming caprices in them that one should be particularly pleased with this thing, or struck with that, which, on minds of a different cast, makes no extraordinary impression. I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the harebell, the foxglove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Strana 2 - I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the country of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery.
Strana 18 - ... amidst, that he describes : those scenes, rude and humble as they are, have kindled beautiful emotions in his soul, noble thoughts, and definite resolves; and he speaks forth what is in him, not from any outward call of vanity or interest, but because his heart is too full to be silent. He speaks it with such melody and modulation as he can; 'in homely rustic jingle;' but it is his own, and genuine.
Strana 18 - All that remains of Burns, the Writings he has left, seem to us, as we hinted above, no more than a poor mutilated fraction of what was in him ; brief, broken glimpses of a genius that could never show itself complete ; that wanted all things for completeness : culture, leisure, true effort, nay even length of life.
Strana 2 - Hannibal gave my young ideas such a turn, that I used to strut in raptures up and down after the recruiting drum and bagpipe, and wish myself tall enough to be a soldier ; while the story of Wallace poured a Scottish prejudice into my veins, which will boil along there till the flood-gates of life shut in eternal rest.
Strana 44 - Confute me," he concluded," by proofs of Scripture, or else by plain just arguments: I cannot recant otherwise. For it is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I; I can do no other: God assist me!"—It is, as we say, the greatest moment in the Modern History of Men.
Strana 39 - is the key of "heaven and of hell: a drop of blood shed in the cause of " God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two