The Marlborough French ExercisesCassell, Petter, Galpin, 1872 - 256 Seiten |
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Seite 209 - The revenues of her great proprietors would have been spent in festivities and diversions on the banks of the Seine. The noble language of Milton and Burke would have remained a rustic dialect, without a literature, a fixed grammar, or a fixed orthography, and would have been contemptuously abandoned to the use of boors.
Seite 213 - I ask hers with all my heart." The morning light began to peep through the windows of Whitehall ; and Charles desired the attendants to pull aside the curtains, that he might have one more look at the day. He remarked that it was time to wind up a clock which stood near his bed. These little circumstances were long remembered, because they proved beyond dispute that, when he declared himself a Roman Catholic, he was in full possession of his faculties. He apologized to those who had stood round him...
Seite 79 - It was the latter part of July when Margaret returned home. The forest trees were all one dark, full, dusky green; the fern below them caught all the slanting sunbeams; the weather was sultry and broodingly still. Margaret used to tramp along by her father's side, crushing down the fern with a cruel glee, as she felt it yield under her light foot...
Seite 220 - The lawn, the grounds were trodden and waste ; the portal yawned void. The front was, as I had once seen it in a dream, but a shell-like wall, very high, and very fragilelooking, perforated with paneless windows : no roof, no battlements, no chimneys — all had crashed in.
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Seite 214 - Caesar's soldiers were now rushing on with their usual impetuosity, when, perceiving the enemy motionless, they all stopt short, as if by general consent, and halted in the midst of their career. A terrible pause ensued, in which both armies continued to gaze upon each other, with mutual terror.