Clan-Albyn: a National TaleG. Routledge & Company, 1853 - 480 páginas |
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... Corunna . On many occasions it was found necessary to enforce the temporary requisitions made by the commissariat ; for the people of the coun- try , fearful alike of friend and foe , and suffering equally from the outrages of both ...
... Corunna . On many occasions it was found necessary to enforce the temporary requisitions made by the commissariat ; for the people of the coun- try , fearful alike of friend and foe , and suffering equally from the outrages of both ...
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... Corunna , inquiring at every one he met for Colonel Monro . Silence confirmed the testimony of the wounded soldiers . This had hap- pened about five o'clock in the afternoon ; it was now between ten and eleven . The embarkation of the ...
... Corunna , inquiring at every one he met for Colonel Monro . Silence confirmed the testimony of the wounded soldiers . This had hap- pened about five o'clock in the afternoon ; it was now between ten and eleven . The embarkation of the ...
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... Corunna . The English pickets which kept the ground challenged this party , and they declared their business . God bless you , you may go home , ” replied a shaking voice . “ A deserter came over to us a little while ago , who says the ...
... Corunna . The English pickets which kept the ground challenged this party , and they declared their business . God bless you , you may go home , ” replied a shaking voice . “ A deserter came over to us a little while ago , who says the ...
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... Corunna . The priest was well acquainted with the different roads . They took a circuitous route to avoid the outposts of the enemy , and , as far as possible , those pickets of cavalry which in every direction were scouring the already ...
... Corunna . The priest was well acquainted with the different roads . They took a circuitous route to avoid the outposts of the enemy , and , as far as possible , those pickets of cavalry which in every direction were scouring the already ...
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... tell to the 66 stones . " The battle of Corunna was at length fought : Craig - gillian had fallen ; and Norman had gone to poor Flora , —with what hope of B B success no one could tell . The General , from A NATIONAL TALE . 385.
... tell to the 66 stones . " The battle of Corunna was at length fought : Craig - gillian had fallen ; and Norman had gone to poor Flora , —with what hope of B B success no one could tell . The General , from A NATIONAL TALE . 385.
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration affection albyn Anna Maria Porter arms Astorga beautiful bless blood bosom Bourke Brora Buchanan Captain Drummond Catalonia charming child CINQ MARS clan Colonel Grant Corunna Craig-gillian creature darling dear delight Dunalbyn Eleenalin exclaimed eyes fancy father favourite fear feelings felt female Fitzconnal Flora fortune Gaelic gaze gentleman girl glen Glen-gillian Glenalbyn hand happy heard heart Hector Highland honour hope Hugh Hugh Piper Irish kind knew Lady Augusta Lady Glanville Lady Gordon laughing Leary letter live looked Lord Glanville Macalbyn Mary mind Miss Sinclair Monimia Montague Moome Moome's morning mother mountains never night party Phelim Piper pleasure poor pride recollection regiment returned Ronald round Scotland seen sighed Sir Archibald Gordon smiling soldier sorrow soul Spain spirit stranger sure sweet tears tell tender thought tunag Unah Valmont voice wandering wife wild wish woman young
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Página 210 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 28 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declared how much he knew ; Twas certain he could write, and cipher too ; Lands he could measure, terms and tides presage, And e'en the story ran that he could gauge...
Página 98 - And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave : that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Página 457 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. ^And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
Página 202 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 57 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 205 - Be hush'd, my dark spirit ! for wisdom condemns When the faint and the feeble deplore ; Be strong as the rock of the ocean that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore...
Página 33 - Yes, let the rich deride, the proud disdain. These simple blessings of the lowly train ; To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art.
Página 58 - Here as I take my solitary rounds, Amidst thy tangling walks and ruined grounds, And, many a year elapsed, return to view Where once the cottage stood, the hawthorn grew, Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.