Annual Register, Volume 44Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1803 - History |
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... troops had obtained in Egypt , the truth of one observation made to him formerly by a noble lord , him- self an ornament to the military pro- fession ( lord Moira ) , who told him that he might rely upon it , that British soldiers ...
... troops had obtained in Egypt , the truth of one observation made to him formerly by a noble lord , him- self an ornament to the military pro- fession ( lord Moira ) , who told him that he might rely upon it , that British soldiers ...
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... troops of the French republic embarked on the expedi- tion to Egypt . This plan not only menaced all our possessions in the East , but threatened the existence of the Turkish government . The first important check which this formidable ...
... troops of the French republic embarked on the expedi- tion to Egypt . This plan not only menaced all our possessions in the East , but threatened the existence of the Turkish government . The first important check which this formidable ...
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... troops . With out this precaution , what was there to prevent the French from return- ing to Egypt ? At the very moment when we magnanimously stipulated for the evacuation of that country , there was not a French soldier re- maining in ...
... troops . With out this precaution , what was there to prevent the French from return- ing to Egypt ? At the very moment when we magnanimously stipulated for the evacuation of that country , there was not a French soldier re- maining in ...
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... troops , under the command of leut . col . Airey , of the 8th regiment of infantry , against an infinitely superior French force , has never yet come in a satisfactory form before the public . That island , of the utmost importance as a ...
... troops , under the command of leut . col . Airey , of the 8th regiment of infantry , against an infinitely superior French force , has never yet come in a satisfactory form before the public . That island , of the utmost importance as a ...
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... troops . Many political reasons and our own interest , destitute as we are yet of national troops , do not permit it at this moment . 66 Besides , the Cisalpine repub- lic , although its existence has been secured by the treaties of To ...
... troops . Many political reasons and our own interest , destitute as we are yet of national troops , do not permit it at this moment . 66 Besides , the Cisalpine repub- lic , although its existence has been secured by the treaties of To ...
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Page 808 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 806 - Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn! Say, rush'd the bold eagle exultingly forth, From his home, in the dark rolling clouds of the north? Lo! the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! Ah! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh.
Page 809 - The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd — till woman smiled...
Page 807 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 807 - Lo ! anointed by Heaven with the vials of wrath, Behold where he flies on his desolate path ! Now in darkness and billows he sweeps from my sight : Rise ! rise ! ye wild tempests, and cover his flight ! — 'Tis finished. Their thunders are hushed on the moors ; Culloden is lost, and my country deplores. But where is the iron-bound prisoner?
Page 806 - Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? ;Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements' height, Heaven's fire is around thee, to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood, And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood.
Page 718 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
Page 809 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank, and fiery Hun, Shout in their sulph'rous canopy. 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! Few, few, shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 805 - LOCHIEL, Lochiel ! beware of the day When the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! For a field of the dead' rushes red on my sight, And the clans of Culloden are scattered in fight. They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown ; Woe, woe to the riders that trample them down ! Proud Cumberland prances, insulting the slain, And their hoof-beaten bosoms are trod to the plain.
Page 806 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning ; no rider is there ; But its bridle is- red with the sign of despair. Weep Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead : For a merciless sword on Culloden shall wave, Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave.