Autobiography of a private soldier, by John PindarPr. in the "Fife News" Office, 1877 - 170 Seiten |
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amongst arrived auld Ballincollig barracks batteries Bauldy beautiful bonnie bonnie Scotland British army Castle Catholic Ceuta CHAPTER Church Colour-Sergeant command comrades Cork Crimea Curragh dear drink Dublin Dungannon duty Edinburgh enjoyed farewell feel Fenianism Fermoy field fire frae gallant garrison Gibraltar girls glorious ground guard ha'e happy heart Highland Highland Light Infantry hills honour India inhabitants Ireland Irish Jamie land langsyne leaving M'Cann Malta Mankey Mankey Bouffe martial miles military mind Mitchelstown months morning native never night non-commissioned officers o'er passed Peshawur Pindar pleasant poet possession prisoner private soldier recruit regiment river Lee rock sail sang scenes Scotch Scotland Scottish seen sergeant ship side sing sodger song sorrow Spaniards Spanish station streets sweet Tallow thee thou tion took town Valletta village wander Weel young
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Seite 147 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
Seite 121 - Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. Here about the beach I wander'd, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time...
Seite 95 - DANCE, little baby, dance up high : Never mind, baby, mother is by ; Crow and caper, caper and crow, There, little baby, there you go ; Up to the ceiling, down to the ground...
Seite 76 - Lesley As she gaed o'er the border? She's gane, like Alexander, To spread her conquests farther. To see her is to love her, And love but her for ever; For Nature made her what she is, And ne'er made sic anither! Thou art a queen, Fair Lesley, Thy subjects we, before thee; Thou art divine, Fair Lesley. The hearts o
Seite 65 - The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver; But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled— Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world...
Seite 139 - I hold it true, whate'er befall ; I feel it when I sorrow most, "Pis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Seite 98 - He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet must first become a little child, he must take to pieces the whole web of his mind. He must unlearn much of that knowledge which has perhaps constituted hitherto his chief title to superiority.
Seite 39 - I've paced much this weary mortal round, And sage experience bids me this declare 'If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare, One cordial in this melancholy vale, 'Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair, In other's arms breathe out the tender tale, Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.
Seite 67 - For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline...
Seite 20 - England, the Major-General desires to offer them his best " wishes on the occasion. He has known the regiment for " a number of years. He was very intimately associated " with it in the Mediterranean, and his interest in it is now " materially increased in no small degree by its having " served under him in the field, and done its part, and done " it well, in obtaining for him those honours which Her " Majesty has been pleased to confer. The Major-General " had not assumed command of the Yusufzai...