The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems: From the Last London EdLeavitt, Trow, 1849 - 186 pages |
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Page 43
... Charles to Dneiper's swampy shore ; Faint in his wounds , and shivering in the blast . The Swedish soldier sunk - and groan'd his last ! File after file the stormy showers benumb , Freeze every standard - sheet , and hush the drum ...
... Charles to Dneiper's swampy shore ; Faint in his wounds , and shivering in the blast . The Swedish soldier sunk - and groan'd his last ! File after file the stormy showers benumb , Freeze every standard - sheet , and hush the drum ...
Page 44
... Charles beheld - nor shudder'd at the sight ' Above , below , in Ocean , Earth , and Sky , Thy fairy worlds , Imagination , lie , And HOPE attends , companion of the way , Thy dream by night , thy visions of the day ! In yonder pensile ...
... Charles beheld - nor shudder'd at the sight ' Above , below , in Ocean , Earth , and Sky , Thy fairy worlds , Imagination , lie , And HOPE attends , companion of the way , Thy dream by night , thy visions of the day ! In yonder pensile ...
Page 64
... Charles to Dneiper's swampy shore . " In this extremity , " ( says the biographer of Charles XII . of Sweden , speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa , ) " the memo . rable winter of 1709 , which was still more ...
... Charles to Dneiper's swampy shore . " In this extremity , " ( says the biographer of Charles XII . of Sweden , speaking of his military exploits before the battle of Pultowa , ) " the memo . rable winter of 1709 , which was still more ...
Page 139
... Charles should be raised , or not , in 1745. Lochiel was himself too wise a man to be blind to the consequences of so hopeless an enterprise , but his sensibility to the point of honour overruled his wisdom . Charles appealed to his ...
... Charles should be raised , or not , in 1745. Lochiel was himself too wise a man to be blind to the consequences of so hopeless an enterprise , but his sensibility to the point of honour overruled his wisdom . Charles appealed to his ...
Page 140
... Charles . " No , " said Lochiel , " I think it due to my prince to give him my reasons in person for refusing to join his standard . " - " Brother , " re- plied Fassafern , " I know you better than you know yourself : if the prince once ...
... Charles . " No , " said Lochiel , " I think it due to my prince to give him my reasons in person for refusing to join his standard . " - " Brother , " re- plied Fassafern , " I know you better than you know yourself : if the prince once ...
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