Soldiers and Sailors: Or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military LifeGrant & Griffith, 1842 - 340 páginas |
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... ground in his wet clothes : -hunger pinches him , fatigue wears him , and the stormy fight with all its dangers awaits him , -yet , on he goes without a murmur . " Neither does honest Jack lead a life of ease , or sleep upon roses . See ...
... ground in his wet clothes : -hunger pinches him , fatigue wears him , and the stormy fight with all its dangers awaits him , -yet , on he goes without a murmur . " Neither does honest Jack lead a life of ease , or sleep upon roses . See ...
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... ground to the taking of a gar- rison , the glacis , scarps , and counter - scarps , ram- parts , lunettes , bastions , batteries and citadel . " " No wonder that you should listen to a man like him . " " He was , indeed , wondrously ...
... ground to the taking of a gar- rison , the glacis , scarps , and counter - scarps , ram- parts , lunettes , bastions , batteries and citadel . " " No wonder that you should listen to a man like him . " " He was , indeed , wondrously ...
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... grounds when it can be avoided , or when it inflicts a greater evil than it undertakes to re- move ; on the other , I cannot see how war can be always evaded . If to oppress others be wrong , to allow ourselves to be oppressed can ...
... grounds when it can be avoided , or when it inflicts a greater evil than it undertakes to re- move ; on the other , I cannot see how war can be always evaded . If to oppress others be wrong , to allow ourselves to be oppressed can ...
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... his trumpet to sound an alarm , he let it fall from his hand and fainted away . A bold fellow , who happened at the time to be at his elbow , snatched up the trumpet from the ground , and blew a blast that made the 22 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
... his trumpet to sound an alarm , he let it fall from his hand and fainted away . A bold fellow , who happened at the time to be at his elbow , snatched up the trumpet from the ground , and blew a blast that made the 22 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
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... ground , and blew a blast that made the bar- racks and the barrack - yard ring again . Up we jumped , hurried on our clothes , ran to the stables , leaped on our horses , and in eight minutes and a half every man of us was drawn up in ...
... ground , and blew a blast that made the bar- racks and the barrack - yard ring again . Up we jumped , hurried on our clothes , ran to the stables , leaped on our horses , and in eight minutes and a half every man of us was drawn up in ...
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Página 274 - May the great God whom I worship grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet...
Página 315 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 53 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Página 62 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 75 - Fitz-James's blade was sword and shield. He practised every pass and ward, To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard ; While less expert, though stronger far, The Gael maintained unequal war. Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood ; No stinted draught, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.
Página 315 - 11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Página 105 - Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft.
Página 74 - Then each at once his falchion drew, Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun and stream and plain, As what they ne'er might see again ; Then, foot and point and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Página 19 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man.
Página 151 - His arms are neutral, hanging and swinging in a curve aloof; his hands, half open, look as if they had just been handling ropes, and had no object in life but to handle them again. He is proud of appearing in a new hat and slops, with a belcher handkerchief flowing loosely round his neck, and the corner of another out of his pocket. Thus equipped, with pinchbeck buckles in his...