Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of BrandywineG. B. Zieber & Company, 1846 - 343 páginas |
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... brave Cornwallis , made a landing on the peninsula , washed by the Chesapeake , near the mouth of the Susquehanna . No sooner was the landing made , than , urged by some unknown , some indefinable impulse - call it restlessness - call ...
... brave Cornwallis , made a landing on the peninsula , washed by the Chesapeake , near the mouth of the Susquehanna . No sooner was the landing made , than , urged by some unknown , some indefinable impulse - call it restlessness - call ...
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... brave men were to die on Tyburn . A whispered name reached my ear as I hurried through the crowd - it was the name of Lovat ! -old Simon Frazier , Lord of Lovat ! I " rushed through the crowd . The brave old man 30 MONTHERMER .
... brave men were to die on Tyburn . A whispered name reached my ear as I hurried through the crowd - it was the name of Lovat ! -old Simon Frazier , Lord of Lovat ! I " rushed through the crowd . The brave old man 30 MONTHERMER .
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... brave old man stood on the scaffold , with the sunlight falling on a brow frosted with the snows of eighty winters ! He looked upon the axe and smiled ! -he looked upon the crowd and laughed ! -he looked to the blue heaven , and , with ...
... brave old man stood on the scaffold , with the sunlight falling on a brow frosted with the snows of eighty winters ! He looked upon the axe and smiled ! -he looked upon the crowd and laughed ! -he looked to the blue heaven , and , with ...
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... brave young fellow from this same valley of the Brandiwine- Colonel Frazier his commission named him , although he commanded but à single company of riflemen . " And out of Fort Cumberland , with the clear heavens above and the green ...
... brave young fellow from this same valley of the Brandiwine- Colonel Frazier his commission named him , although he commanded but à single company of riflemen . " And out of Fort Cumberland , with the clear heavens above and the green ...
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... brave Captain Frazier , -but all was in vain ! General Braddock merely desired his men to advance in reg'lar order , and fire at the bushes in parade - ground style - whether they were killed or not made not a ha'penny's difference , so ...
... brave Captain Frazier , -but all was in vain ! General Braddock merely desired his men to advance in reg'lar order , and fire at the bushes in parade - ground style - whether they were killed or not made not a ha'penny's difference , so ...
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arms band banner battle beautiful beheld blacksmith Blanche blood blue bosom Brandywine brave breast British British army brow Captain Chadd's Ford cheek Clerwoode cloud Colonel Frazier Continental army Count Pulaski cried dark eyes David Walford dead death Debbil deep door exclaimed face father fell flashed forest gallant gallant band gazed Gilbert Gates girl glance glare gleaming glittering Gotlieb Hoff grasp graveyard green green velvet grey hair hand head heart Hessian hill Hirpley horse hurrah knife La Fayette Lady Isidore light lips look Lord Cornwallis Lord Percy maiden Mayland mingled Monthermer murmured muttered pacquet pale Philip Walford Quaker quivering Randulph the Prince Riders rifle Rose ruffian Sampson scene scythe shadow shone shoulder shouted shrieked side silent slouching hat smile smoke soldier soul steed stood stout strange stranger sword terrible thee tone trees trembling troopers valley voice war horse Washington waving whispered wild woods word yonder
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Página 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Página 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...