The universal anthology, a collection of the best literature, with biographical and explanatory notes, ed. by R. Garnett, L. Vallée, A. Brandl. Imperial ed, Volume 21Richard Garnett 1899 |
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... shot without being sure of their object , and to the officers he expressed himself as highly satisfied with the arrangements made . Meanwhile the two fleets were forming , as best they could with the scanty breeze , the order in which ...
... shot without being sure of their object , and to the officers he expressed himself as highly satisfied with the arrangements made . Meanwhile the two fleets were forming , as best they could with the scanty breeze , the order in which ...
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... shot flew over the " Victory , " and the admiral directed all not stationed on deck to go to their quarters . No remark therefore was made ; but it is more likely that Nelson would have resented the warning than that he would have ...
... shot flew over the " Victory , " and the admiral directed all not stationed on deck to go to their quarters . No remark therefore was made ; but it is more likely that Nelson would have resented the warning than that he would have ...
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... shot away . The " Victory " was about two miles from the " Royal Sovereign " when the latter , at ten minutes past twelve , broke through the allied order , and she had still a mile and a half to go before she herself could reach it ...
... shot away . The " Victory " was about two miles from the " Royal Sovereign " when the latter , at ten minutes past twelve , broke through the allied order , and she had still a mile and a half to go before she herself could reach it ...
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... shot riddled the sails , or stripped them from the yards . Every studding - sail boom was shot away close to the yardarms , and this light canvas , invalu- able in so faint a wind , fell helplessly into the water . During these trying ...
... shot riddled the sails , or stripped them from the yards . Every studding - sail boom was shot away close to the yardarms , and this light canvas , invalu- able in so faint a wind , fell helplessly into the water . During these trying ...
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... shot ranged from end to end of the " Bucentaure , " and the injury was tremendous . Twenty guns were at once dismounted , and the loss by that single discharge was esti- mated , by the French , at four hundred men . Leaving the further ...
... shot ranged from end to end of the " Bucentaure , " and the injury was tremendous . Twenty guns were at once dismounted , and the loss by that single discharge was esti- mated , by the French , at four hundred men . Leaving the further ...
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Page 273 - There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 272 - The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 331 - What thou art we know not; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. Like a poet hidden In the light of thought, Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not...
Page 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 22 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace ; While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, ' 'Twere better by far, To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Page 335 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Page 270 - TO him who, in the love of Nature, holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language: for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 333 - MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, > Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Page 334 - Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy, Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: Already with thee ! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Clustered around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.
Page 272 - Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.