Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 5 |
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... side as his wife , Josephine loved the emperor too well to survive his abdication and exile to Elba . Her son , Eugène de Beauharnais - he who long since , as a mere youth , had begged his father's sword from Bonaparte -had been made ...
... side as his wife , Josephine loved the emperor too well to survive his abdication and exile to Elba . Her son , Eugène de Beauharnais - he who long since , as a mere youth , had begged his father's sword from Bonaparte -had been made ...
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... side by side with those friends who had taken part in ' the affair . ' * But all in vain . Terms indeed were offered him ; but the conditions were such that he could not and would not accept them . He was seized , therefore , and ...
... side by side with those friends who had taken part in ' the affair . ' * But all in vain . Terms indeed were offered him ; but the conditions were such that he could not and would not accept them . He was seized , therefore , and ...
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... side of the Atlantic , and that when he returned , as he did return , to Europe in the following year , it was in violation of his word of honour . Such was not the case ; he returned to Europe in the hope of seeing Hortense once more ...
... side of the Atlantic , and that when he returned , as he did return , to Europe in the following year , it was in violation of his word of honour . Such was not the case ; he returned to Europe in the hope of seeing Hortense once more ...
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... side , but also of that which he ever had at heart , and which no doubt he would have accomplished in fact , if he had not been prevented by the force of circumstances too powerful for mortal genius and energy to contend against ...
... side , but also of that which he ever had at heart , and which no doubt he would have accomplished in fact , if he had not been prevented by the force of circumstances too powerful for mortal genius and energy to contend against ...
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... side by side with the English flag at Inkermann and Balaklava . With England they stormed the Redan and the Malakoff , and in perfect concert with England , the emperor made peace with Russia , when the objects of that war had been ...
... side by side with the English flag at Inkermann and Balaklava . With England they stormed the Redan and the Malakoff , and in perfect concert with England , the emperor made peace with Russia , when the objects of that war had been ...
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afterwards amongst animals appeared arms attended began boat body bread-fruit brother Buccleuch called Captain carried castle chief clans dead death devour door emperor Endeavour Straits endeavoured enemy England English Epeira father feelings feet fire France friends gave habits hand hope Hortense house-spider infected island John Hayward Johnnie Armstrong kind king lances land length Liddesdale live London look Lord Louis Napoleon Louis Philippe Madagascar manner marches miles morning moss-troopers Mygale nation natives negroes neighbours never night observed Orleanist Otaheite parish party person Pitcairn's Island plague poor prey prince prisoner Queen Hortense round says scarcely Scotland Scottish Scottish Border seized sent shewed ship shore shut side soon species spider spinnerets streets tarantula thou thread throne Tinah told took town trees Van Diemen's Land warden young
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Página 25 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks in deeper groan reply, 10 And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Página 22 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ? What mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Página 8 - E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
Página 30 - Is this thy voice, my son David ? " And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept. And he said to David, " Thou art more righteous than I : for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil. And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me : forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.
Página 21 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Página 21 - The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, and The Lady of the Lake taken together.
Página 1 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none, He rode all unarm'd, and he rode all alone.
Página 5 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 5 - Ever, he said, that, close and near, A lady's voice was in his ear, And that the priest he could not hear ; For that she ever sung, " In the lost battle, borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle with groans of the dying...
Página 2 - mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran : There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee, But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see. So daring in love, and so dauntless in war, Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar?