Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine: A Monthly Journal Devoted to All Subjects Connected with Her Majesty's Land and Sea Forces, 2권W.H. Allen & Company, 1885 |
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31 페이지 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
22 페이지 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
212 페이지 - Moorehouse, who was killed at the gate.* He had risen from the ranks, but nature herself had made him a gentleman ; uneducated, he had made himself a man of science: a career of uninterrupted distinction had commanded general respect ; and his amiable character universal attachment...
34 페이지 - ... their own improvement, or for the good of others, or at least "to relax themselves from the business of the day by an innocent and cheerful conversation, there may be something very useful in these little institutions and establishments.
140 페이지 - ... chains was Captain Berry, late my first lieutenant (Captain Miller was in the very act of going also, but I directed him to remain) ; he was supported from our sprit-sail yard, which hooked in the mizen rigging.
109 페이지 - The angel of mercy still lingers to the last on the scene of her labours ; but her mission is all but accomplished. Those long arcades of Scutari in which dying men sat up to catch the sound of her footstep or the flutter of her dress, and fell back content to have seen her shadow as it passed, are now comparatively deserted.
359 페이지 - The persevering constancy of this small garrison, under the watchful command of the Brigadier, has, under Providence, been the means of adding to the prestige of the British army, and of preserving the honour and lives of our countrywomen.
360 페이지 - Sale were seldom exposed to actual attack, the Lucknow garrison, of inferior strength, have, in addition to a series of fierce assaults, gallantly and successfully repulsed, been for three months exposed to a nearly incessant fire from strong and commanding positions, held by an enemy of overwhelming force, possessing powerful artillery, having at their command the whole resources of wliat was but recently a kingdom, and animated by an insane and bloodthirsty fanaticism.
256 페이지 - A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull all together ! [Cries, and drops his face on arm, upon table.
1 페이지 - On the next day, communications were opened to the left rear of the barracks to the canal, after overcoming considerable difficulty. Captain Peel kept up a steady cannonade on the building called the mess-house. This building, of considerable size, was defended by a ditch about twelve feet broad and scarped with masonry, and beyond that a loopholed mud wall. I determined to use the guns as much as possible in taking it.