Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Moral and Descriptive, with Songs, and Copious NotesPrinted at the Dumfries & Galloway courier office, 1822 - Всего страниц: 283 |
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... enter your pow , While fair in the Channel rides brave gallant Howe ; If he could them meet in our ain straits of Dover , Not even one Frenchman would ever come over . " Says Johnny , " Even should they set sail and 22.
... enter your pow , While fair in the Channel rides brave gallant Howe ; If he could them meet in our ain straits of Dover , Not even one Frenchman would ever come over . " Says Johnny , " Even should they set sail and 22.
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... bravery will yield . All his skill , resolution , and courage , he needs , The attempt now he makes , and he so far succeeds . He gaineth the bank ; but now woeful my tale , On the wreath he sinks lifeless , the storm does prevail . His ...
... bravery will yield . All his skill , resolution , and courage , he needs , The attempt now he makes , and he so far succeeds . He gaineth the bank ; but now woeful my tale , On the wreath he sinks lifeless , the storm does prevail . His ...
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... brave ; Her bark Unbelief can't unmoor , Herself she'll not trust on its wave . The patriarchs and prophets of old , In the promises saw such accord , That their faith wax'd so strong and so bold , That the dead e'en to life they ...
... brave ; Her bark Unbelief can't unmoor , Herself she'll not trust on its wave . The patriarchs and prophets of old , In the promises saw such accord , That their faith wax'd so strong and so bold , That the dead e'en to life they ...
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... brave old Platoff . At Smolensko they nearly had captured the knave ; But he sacrificed thousands his own life to save- And on his brave army now turning his tail , For honour and honesty gave them leg - bail . At Warsaw , in passing ...
... brave old Platoff . At Smolensko they nearly had captured the knave ; But he sacrificed thousands his own life to save- And on his brave army now turning his tail , For honour and honesty gave them leg - bail . At Warsaw , in passing ...
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... brave to lend in time of need ; The combat to renew all - all are bent , To drub the vaunter to his heart's content . Upon that field of blood all night they lay , And offer'd battle to the foe next day ; Which was by him assiduously ...
... brave to lend in time of need ; The combat to renew all - all are bent , To drub the vaunter to his heart's content . Upon that field of blood all night they lay , And offer'd battle to the foe next day ; Which was by him assiduously ...
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Стр. 282 - Others of less note followed the infamous example. On their combined evidence several of the conspirators were seized, condemned, and executed. Among these, the most distinguished were Russell and Sidney. Both died with the intrepidity of men who had resolved to hazard their lives in the field, in order to break the fetters of slavery, and rescue themselves and their fellow-subjects from an ignominious despotism.