Routledge's Christmas Annual for ..., Volumen4Edmund Routledge G. Routledge and Sons, 1869 |
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Página 114 - Wasserbourg, and from Munich to Muhldorf, traverse that thick and gloomy forest, where the pine-trees approach each other so closely as in most places to render the passage of cavalry or artillery, excepting on the great roads, impossible. The village of Hohenlinden...
Página 31 - Down with the rosemary, and so Down with the bays and mistletoe; Down with the holly, ivy, all Wherewith ye dressed the Christmas hall ; That so the superstitious find No one least branch there left behind; For look, how many leaves there be Neglected there, maids, trust to me, So many goblins you shall see.
Página 31 - CEREMONY UPON CANDLEMAS EVE. DOWN with the rosemary, and so Down with the baies and misletoe ; Down with the holly, ivie, all Wherewith ye drest the Christmas hall ; That so the superstitious find No one least branch there left behind ; For look, how many leaves there be Neglected there, maids, trust to me, So many goblins you shall see.
Página 113 - ... was already formed, and he looked at least four years older than his age. When I say that he was even then, in accordance with a family arrangement of long standing, betrothed to his cousin, Constance von Adelheim, a rich and beautiful Franconian heiress, I think I shall have told all that need be told of my friend's private history. I have said that we were rejoiced by the renewal of hostilities in 1800 ; and we had good reason to rejoice, he as an Austrian, I as an Englishman ; for the French...
Página 113 - Fjiglishman; for the French were our bitterest enemies, and we were burning to wipe out the memory of Marengo. It was in the month of November that Gustav and I received orders to join our regiment; and, commanded by Prince Lichtenstein in person, we at once proceeded, in great haste and very inclement weather, to fall in with the main body of the Imperial forces near Landshut on the Inn. The French, under Moreau, came up from the direction of Ampfing and Miihldorf; while the Austrians, sixty thousand...
Página 53 - It must have been about two o'clock in the morning when I was awakened by a terrific roaring which fairly made the forest tremble. Sitting up and staring fearfully into the darkness, I heard the crashing of underbrush and trees close upon us. My first thought was of a hurricane, but in the confusion of my senses, stunned by the impact of sound, I had few...
Página 114 - It is a brilliant opportunity lost," said Gustav, bitterly. "We had separated them and thrown them into confusion; but what of that, when we have left them this whole day to reassemble their scattered forces and reform their broken battalions? The Archduke Charles would never have been guilty of such an oversight. He would have gone on forcing them back, column upon column, till soon they would have been unable to fly before us. They would have trampled upon each other, thrown down their arms, and...
Página 121 - ... below. The opposite bank was also steep, though less steep than that on our side; and beyond it the eye travelled over a wide expanse of dusky pine-woods, now white and heavy with snow. I reined in my horse the better to observe the scene. Yonder flowed the Inn, dark and silent, a river of ink winding through meadow flats of dazzling silver. Far away upon the horizon rose the mystic outlines of the Franconian Alps. A single sentry, pacing to and fro some four hundred yards ahead, was distinctly...
Página 114 - ... They would have trampled upon each other, thrown down their arms, and been all cut to pieces or taken prisoners." "Perhaps it is not yet too late," said I. "Not yet too late!" he repeated. "Gott im Himmel! Not too late, perhaps, to fight hard and get the worst of the fight; but too late to destroy the whole French army, as we should have destroyed it this morning. But, there! of what use is it to talk? They are all safe now in the woods of Hohenlinden." "Well, then, we must rout them out of the...
Página 120 - ... direction; and just over the Archduke's tent where the Imperial banner hung drooping and heavy, the full moon was rising in splendour. A magnificent night — cold, but not piercing — pleasant to ride in — pleasant to smoke in as one rode. A superb night for trotting leisurely round about a peaceful camp; but a bad night for a reconnoitring party on hostile ground, — a fatal night for Austrian white-coats in danger of being seen by vigilant French sentries. Where now were Gustav and his...