Soldiers and Sailors: Or, Anecdotes, Details, and Recollections of Naval and Military LifeGrant & Griffith, 1842 - 340 páginas |
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... . " " True . They work hard , play hard , and fight hard ; but , say what you will , it is not all sunshine with soldiers and sailors . A soldier , on parade or on a review day , looks like a SOLDIERS AND SAILORS . 5.
... . " " True . They work hard , play hard , and fight hard ; but , say what you will , it is not all sunshine with soldiers and sailors . A soldier , on parade or on a review day , looks like a SOLDIERS AND SAILORS . 5.
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... looks like a man of leisure , and in time of peace he is not overdone with his duty ; but see him in war , marching through miry roads , panting with heat or numbed with cold , up early and late , sleeping on the bare ground in his wet ...
... looks like a man of leisure , and in time of peace he is not overdone with his duty ; but see him in war , marching through miry roads , panting with heat or numbed with cold , up early and late , sleeping on the bare ground in his wet ...
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... look like soldiers . " " True : the commencement of the present re- gular army may be said to be the corps of life- guards established by King Charles II . at the Restoration . To these he added a regiment of horse 16 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
... look like soldiers . " " True : the commencement of the present re- gular army may be said to be the corps of life- guards established by King Charles II . at the Restoration . To these he added a regiment of horse 16 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
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... look all manner of ways at once , and it was a clear case that he would have willingly given up a part of his ill- gotten prize - money to have secured a retreat . At first I used him tenderly , treating him with only a few points of ...
... look all manner of ways at once , and it was a clear case that he would have willingly given up a part of his ill- gotten prize - money to have secured a retreat . At first I used him tenderly , treating him with only a few points of ...
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... frightened them when the anchor and chain cable ran out in that way ! " " British tars are not very soon frightened , though I dare say that it made them look about them . If you are in the mood to listen 30 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
... frightened them when the anchor and chain cable ran out in that way ! " " British tars are not very soon frightened , though I dare say that it made them look about them . If you are in the mood to listen 30 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS .
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admiral Admiral Nelson Algiers anchor Apsley House arms army articles of war artillery attack battle of Marengo battle of Waterloo bayonet besiegers blue blue-jacket boat boys brave bravery bravest British Buonaparte called cannon captain cavalry Colonel colours command courage crew cuirassiers danger deck ditch dragoons dress Duke of Wellington duty enemy epaulettes Evain fell fight fire flag fleet fortress fought French garrison ground guards guns hand head hear heart honour horse Hougomont hundred infantry intrepidity Jack James Macdonnel killed King Lieutenant-General Lieutenant-General Sir life-guards Lord Lord Edward Somerset Major-General Major-General Sir Marshal mast military muskets Napoleon naval navy Nelson never officers Old England picquet poor Prussia ranks regiment royal sail seaman sent Seringapatam ship shot siege soldiers and sailors storming sword tactics tell terrible thing thousand tion Tippoo told troops uncle vessel victory wounded
Passagens conhecidas
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...