The personal adventures of 'our own correspondent' [of the Times] in Italy, Volume 2Chapman and Hall, 1852 - Italy |
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abandoned Adige appeared armistice army arrived Austrian Brescia café called camp campaign Captain Campbell Caro carriage cause Charles Albert Codogno correspondence course Cremona Custoza Dezenzano doctor Don Pietro Donna Lucia doubt Duke of Genoa Duke of Savoy enemy English excellent favour Florence force French gentleman Goito Graff Grand Duke hand hear heard heart honour hour husband Italian Italy King of Prussia knew lady Leghorn Legnago Lodi Lombardy Lord Lord Palmerston manner Mantua Milan Milanese Mincio minister montese morning Naples never night occasion officers once party passed Pastrengo patriots Peninsula person Peschiera Piedmont Piedmontese political position Provisional Government Radetzky Radetzky's received republican retreat Rivoli road Savoy seen sent side signore soldiers Somma Campagna Sonaz stranger Tedeschi Toeplitz took troops Turin Tuscany Valleggio Verona Villa Franca village visà whilst whole wife word young
Popular passages
Page 295 - ... it is a good and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from their sins.
Page 104 - Tsar at the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of every campaign demanding medical help, simply stated that 'без лекаря гдрь и без лекарств в полкех быть не мочно...
Page 11 - What, sir," said I one day, in presence of the quartermaster-general, "have you not yet found that scion of your race, whom 'you looked for in the rival armies of the Junta and Donna Maria? Pray, sir, let us have his precise signalement.
Page 139 - Correspondent" harnessed to a wheelbarrow, and navigating his precious load over the rocks and stones of the dry bed of a mountain torrent ? And you who read the " Times," you ministers of State who tremble at its dictum, you members of Parliament who gain immortal fame only through its columns, what would you have said on knowing that the pen whose account of the campaign gave the only information then to be depended on, was performing the duty of a...
Page 147 - ... Own" got good dinners whilst many were half-starved, and good wine, though the king's staff were reduced to half rations. We must now give an example as to how he obtained a bed, and that on more than one occasion, when others had to sleep in the streets. This was at Codogno — the city of cheeses. I had no difficulty in finding enough to eat and a glass of wine, but where was a bed to be had ? as the quartermaster-general had secured every lodging at the hotels and private houses, and I met...
Page 96 - At last the reverses at Custoza drove " Our Own" from the scene of so many pleasing adventures, and after seeing Donna Lucia and her children into a carriage, and " receiving the sighs of the good Angela, the young cook at the Trattoria...
Page 178 - Greppi, but all they said was thrown away on a mob of republican assassins, who had no other object in view than the destruction of the King, and of every member of the royal family.