United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 42H. Colburn, 1843 - Military art and science |
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Page 271 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck if they'll let him sleep on, In
Page 160 - have heard that this club, though it consisted but of fifteen persons, weighed above three ton. In opposition to this society, there sprung up another composed of scarecrows and skeletons, who, being very meagre and envious, did all they could to thwart the designs of their bulky brethren, whom they represented as men
Page 429 - The Commander-in-Chief in the Victory led the weather column, and the Royal Sovereign, which bore my flag, the lee. The action began at twelve o'clock by the leading ships of the columns breaking through the enemy's line ; the Commander-in-Chief about the tenth ship from the van—the second in command about the twelfth from the
Page 246 - Venetian, mentions, the feathers in whose wings are twelve feet long, which can scoop up a horse and his rider, or an elephant, as our kites do a mouse; why then it is but teaching one of these to carry a man, and he may ride up thither as Ganymede does upon an eagle.
Page 518 - pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd,
Page 246 - 3. Or if neither of these ways will serve, yet I do seriously, and upon good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit, and give such a motion to it as shall convey him through the air.
Page 168 - Knows he who never took a pinch, Nosey ! the pleasure thence which flows ? Knows he the titillating joys Which my nose knows ? "Oh, nose ! I am as proud of thee As any mountain of its snows ; I gaze on thee, and feel that joy— A Roman knows.
Page 160 - of the people, and consequently out of the magistracy. These factions tore the corporation in pieces for several years, till at length they came to this accommodation : that the two bailiffs of the town should be annually chosen out of the two clubs ; by which means the principal magistrates are at this day coupled like rabbits, one fat and one lean.
Page 511 - I kept him for his humour's sake, For he would oft beguile My heart of thoughts that made it ache, And force me to a smile.