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27 ページ - Early to bed, and early to rise, Make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise ; " and, furthermore, this solemn fact was put forward, that — " A pin a day, is a groat a year.
122 ページ - The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry...
59 ページ - A tear now fell — for as life was sinking, The pride that guarded his manly eye Was weaker grown, and his last fond thinking Brought heaven and home, and his true love nigh. But, with the fire of his gallant nation, He scorn'd surrender without a blow ! He made with death capitulation, And with warlike honours he still would go ; For, draining his little cruiskeen, He...
226 ページ - Highlands,' the whole Highlands, without distinction, were disarmed, and for ever forbid to use or bear arms, under penalties. This act has been found, by experience, to work the quite contrary effect from what was intended by it ; and, in reality, it proves a measure for more effectually disturbing the peace of the Highlands and the rest of the kingdom.
288 ページ - The King is much inclined to some mercy ; but the Duke, who has not so much of Caesar after a victory, as in gaining it, is for the utmost severity. It was lately proposed in the city to present him with the freedom of some company ; one of the aldermen said aloud, " Then let it be of the Butchers /"b The Scotch and his Royal Highness are not at all guarded in their expressions of each other.
59 ページ - ... manly eye Was weaker grown, and his last fond thinking Brought heaven and home, and his true love nigh. But, with the fire of his gallant nation, He scorn'd surrender without a blow ! He made with death capitulation, And with warlike honours he still would go ; For, draining his little cruiskeen, He drank to his cruel colleen, To the emerald land of his birth — And lifeless he sank to the earth, Brave a soldier as ever was seen...
130 ページ - Cumberland was crushed under the fearful charge — the very earth trembled beneath that horrible rush of horse. Dillon was amongst the first to fall ; he received a mortal wound from the steady and well-directed fire of the English column, and as he was struck, he knew his presentiment was fulfilled ; but he lived long enough to know, also, he completed his prophecy of a glorious charge, — plunging his spurs into his fiery horse, he jumped into the forest of bayonets, and, laying about him gallantly,...
55 ページ - ... dead bodies become an additional rampart for our defence. The dragoons, treading over their fallen companions, are pressed forward from the rear, — they are met with the bayonet and slaughtered helplessly : a panic seizes the assailants, and the hall is abandoned — literally barricaded with dead. An escalade was attempted at the same time, however ; and just as we had cleared the hall, the tramp of the dragoons was heard in the apartments above, where the windows were undefended. The count...
213 ページ - Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was a kind of phenomenon in Irish history. This highly accomplished, liberal, and judicious nobleman, to whose, character such injustice accrues from the posthumous publication of his letters, intended for a peculiar purpose, by no means for general advice, was appointed at a dangerous juncture, when, in the midst of an unsuccessful war against France and Spain, an alarming rebellion had been raised in Scotland in favour of Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Pretender....
58 ページ - TWAS glorious day, worth a warrior's telling, Two kings had fought, and the fight was done, When midst the shout of victory swelling, A soldier fell on the field he won. He thought of kings and of royal...