The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 36W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1850 |
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... enemy retreats , and leaves you free , for the whole afternoon , to write off your successes to the Directory . Had you seen our fellows scaling the Alps , with ava- lanches of snow descending at every fire of the great guns - forcing ...
... enemy retreats , and leaves you free , for the whole afternoon , to write off your successes to the Directory . Had you seen our fellows scaling the Alps , with ava- lanches of snow descending at every fire of the great guns - forcing ...
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... enemy ? " " And the first to turn his back to him , comrade , " cried another . " Not always - not always " said the ... enemies were English or German . Let us hear how Pièrre won his battle at - at " At Grandrengs , " said Pièrre ...
... enemy ? " " And the first to turn his back to him , comrade , " cried another . " Not always - not always " said the ... enemies were English or German . Let us hear how Pièrre won his battle at - at " At Grandrengs , " said Pièrre ...
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... enemy in flank , when they believed that all the force was in the front . " " Sacre tonnerre ! I believe that our armies of the Sambre and the Rhine never have any other notion of battles than that eternal flank movement ! " cried a ...
... enemy in flank , when they believed that all the force was in the front . " " Sacre tonnerre ! I believe that our armies of the Sambre and the Rhine never have any other notion of battles than that eternal flank movement ! " cried a ...
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... enemy . dashed forward over the open field in front ; others skulked along by dykes and ditches ; some , again , dodged here and there , as cover offered its shelter : but about a dozen , of whom I was one , kept the track of a little ...
... enemy . dashed forward over the open field in front ; others skulked along by dykes and ditches ; some , again , dodged here and there , as cover offered its shelter : but about a dozen , of whom I was one , kept the track of a little ...
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... enemy's flank . There was little resistance made after that , and Kaunitz only saved his artillery by leaving his rere guard to be cut to pieces . " The cannonier nodded , as if in full assent , and Pièrre looked around him with the air ...
... enemy's flank . There was little resistance made after that , and Kaunitz only saved his artillery by leaving his rere guard to be cut to pieces . " The cannonier nodded , as if in full assent , and Pièrre looked around him with the air ...
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Page 43 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 202 - Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, , And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Page 202 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 202 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 307 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man, My haunt, and the main region of my Song.
Page 307 - All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 307 - I was only then Contented, when with bliss ineffable I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still ; O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart...
Page 112 - But the harvest time of Love is there. Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 312 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 116 - ... thee ; And Water shall hear me, And know thee and fly thee ; And the Winds shall not touch thee When they pass by thee, And the Dews shall not wet thee, When they fall nigh thee : And thou shalt seek Death To release thee, in vain ; Thou shalt live in thy pain, While Kehama shall reign, With a fire in thy heart, And a fire in thy brain ; And sleep shall obey me, And visit thee never, And the curse shall be on thee For ever and ever.