The Life and Times of Prince Charles Stuart, Count of Albany, Commonly Called the Young Pretender, Volum 1Chapman & Hall, 1875 - 448 pàgines |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 200 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush!
Pàgina 213 - Where's a' your men ? The deil confound me gin I ken, For I left them a' i' the morning. Now, Johnnie, troth ye are na blate, To come wi' the news o' your ain defeat, And leave your men in sic a strait, Sae early in the morning.
Pàgina 106 - Let what will happen, the stroke is struck, and I have taken a firm resolution to conquer or to die, and stand my ground as long as I shall have a man remaining with me.
Pàgina 134 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase...
Pàgina 211 - But Gard'ner brave did still behave Like to a hero bright, man ; His courage true, like him were few, That still despised flight, man ; For king and laws, and country's cause, In honour's bed he lay, man ; His life, but not his courage, fled, While he had breath to draw, man. And Major Bowie, that worthy soul, Was brought down to the ground, man ; His horse being shot, it was his lot For to get mony a wound, man: Lieutenant...
Pàgina 113 - Clanranald returned to us ; and, in about half ane hour after, there entered the tent a tall youth, of a most agreeable aspect, in a plain black coat, with a plain shirt, not very clean, and a...
Pàgina 91 - The situ" ation 1 am in is very particular, for nobody knows " where I am, or what is become of me; so that I am " entirely buried as to the public, and cannot but say that " it is a very great constraint upon me, for I am obliged " very often not to stir out of my room for fear of some
Pàgina 106 - It is possible they might have stopped me, having a mind to keep measures with the Elector, and then, to cover it over, they would have made a merit of it to you, by saying they had hindered me from doing a wild and desperate thing. 2ndly. — My being invited by my friends would not be believed, or at least would have made little or no impression on the French Court. . . . I have...
Pàgina 104 - ... which all the world is sensible of, I should not show that I have life in me. Your Majesty cannot disapprove a son's following the example of his father.
Pàgina 318 - All the terms his Royal Highness will or can grant to the rebel garrison of Carlisle are, that they shall not be put to the sword, but be reserved for the King's pleasure. If they consent to these conditions, the governor and principal officers are to deliver themselves up immediately; and the castle, citadel, and all the gates of the town, are to be taken possession of forthwith by the King's troops.