Soldiers and Sailors: Or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military LifeGrant & Griffith, 1842 - 340 страница |
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... Never yet did a red - coat go where a blue - jacket was afraid to follow , nor a son of Neptune brave a danger that a son of Mars would not , willingly , have faced before him . Weigh one golden sovereign against another in a pair of ...
... Never yet did a red - coat go where a blue - jacket was afraid to follow , nor a son of Neptune brave a danger that a son of Mars would not , willingly , have faced before him . Weigh one golden sovereign against another in a pair of ...
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... never despairs - see , his bosom ne'er quivers Though hurricanes cause every timber to start ; The tempest may rend a proud vessel to shivers , But nothing can conquer a firm British heart . ' " Waves may dash and lightnings flash , but ...
... never despairs - see , his bosom ne'er quivers Though hurricanes cause every timber to start ; The tempest may rend a proud vessel to shivers , But nothing can conquer a firm British heart . ' " Waves may dash and lightnings flash , but ...
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... never be without a good private character , and a private should be generally acknowledged as a man of courage and sobriety . As a standing rule , a soldier under arms should not be above doing his duty though he wears a red coat he ...
... never be without a good private character , and a private should be generally acknowledged as a man of courage and sobriety . As a standing rule , a soldier under arms should not be above doing his duty though he wears a red coat he ...
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... Black Trumpeter and the bold Soldier . - A Soldier should attend to his own duty . — - — BEAR in mind , boys , that I shall tell you of many places where I have never been , and of 22 battles that I have never seen . Much have.
... Black Trumpeter and the bold Soldier . - A Soldier should attend to his own duty . — - — BEAR in mind , boys , that I shall tell you of many places where I have never been , and of 22 battles that I have never seen . Much have.
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... never seen . Much have I talked with old soldiers and sailors in my time and much have they told me . It may happen that in speaking of ships I may be , now and then , " out of my reckoning , " and a little " disorderly at times , in ...
... never seen . Much have I talked with old soldiers and sailors in my time and much have they told me . It may happen that in speaking of ships I may be , now and then , " out of my reckoning , " and a little " disorderly at times , in ...
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Страница 274 - May the great God whom I worship grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it ; and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet...
Страница 315 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Страница 53 - This day is called the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say "Tomorrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.
Страница 62 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Страница 75 - Fitz-James's blade was sword and shield. He practised every pass and ward, To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard ; While less expert, though stronger far, The Gael maintained unequal war. Three times in closing strife they stood, And thrice the Saxon blade drank blood ; No stinted draught, no scanty tide, The gushing flood the tartans dyed.
Страница 315 - 11 reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, we raised not a stone — But we left him alone with his glory.
Страница 105 - Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling, The darling of our crew; No more he'll hear the tempest howling, For death has broach'd him to. His form was of the manliest beauty, His heart was kind and soft; Faithful below he did his duty, And now he's gone aloft.
Страница 74 - Then each at once his falchion drew, Each on the ground his scabbard threw, Each looked to sun and stream and plain, As what they ne'er might see again ; Then, foot and point and eye opposed, In dubious strife they darkly closed.
Страница 19 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul : The mind's the standard of the man.
Страница 151 - His arms are neutral, hanging and swinging in a curve aloof; his hands, half open, look as if they had just been handling ropes, and had no object in life but to handle them again. He is proud of appearing in a new hat and slops, with a belcher handkerchief flowing loosely round his neck, and the corner of another out of his pocket. Thus equipped, with pinchbeck buckles in his...