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... . England has to undergo the revolt of the American colonies ; to submit to defeat and separation ; to shake under the vol- cano of the French Revolution ; to grapple and fight GEORGE THE THIRD . 15 George III Thackeray.
... . England has to undergo the revolt of the American colonies ; to submit to defeat and separation ; to shake under the vol- cano of the French Revolution ; to grapple and fight GEORGE THE THIRD . 15 George III Thackeray.
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Archibald Hamilton Bryce. cano of the French Revolution ; to grapple and fight for the life with her gigantic enemy Napoleon ; to gasp and rally after that tremendous struggle . The old society , with its courtly splendours , has to pass ...
Archibald Hamilton Bryce. cano of the French Revolution ; to grapple and fight for the life with her gigantic enemy Napoleon ; to gasp and rally after that tremendous struggle . The old society , with its courtly splendours , has to pass ...
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... fighting , as they retired to immense caverns ( their usual residence ) , into which the regular soldiers could not follow them . Burning fagots were accordingly flung into the caves , and the heat rendered intense . The Arabs were ...
... fighting , as they retired to immense caverns ( their usual residence ) , into which the regular soldiers could not follow them . Burning fagots were accordingly flung into the caves , and the heat rendered intense . The Arabs were ...
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... fight you will - fight like civilized soldiers , not like lurking savages . Mow down your enemies - if you must have war - in the fair field . Face them foot to foot , and hand to hand ; but , for the sake of your fame - for the sake of ...
... fight you will - fight like civilized soldiers , not like lurking savages . Mow down your enemies - if you must have war - in the fair field . Face them foot to foot , and hand to hand ; but , for the sake of your fame - for the sake of ...
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... fight of heroes . The first line of Russians - which had been smashed utterly by our charge , and had fled off at one flank and towards the centre - were coming back to swallow up our handful of men . By sheer steel and sheer courage ...
... fight of heroes . The first line of Russians - which had been smashed utterly by our charge , and had fled off at one flank and towards the centre - were coming back to swallow up our handful of men . By sheer steel and sheer courage ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 297 - Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Página 281 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Página 85 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Página 252 - Await alike the inevitable hour : The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise, Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 281 - He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies ; and what's his reason ? I am a Jew...
Página 166 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Página 201 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Página 238 - When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild...
Página 296 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy, But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Página 237 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...