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... hour ! " How strange it is that the people of Paris laughed at these manifestos , and forgot their existence in the next moment ! At Yet at this time , it must be admitted , the French people were excited to an extraordinary degree by ...
... hour ! " How strange it is that the people of Paris laughed at these manifestos , and forgot their existence in the next moment ! At Yet at this time , it must be admitted , the French people were excited to an extraordinary degree by ...
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... hours . During this interval a mass of National Guards , armed and unarmed , gathered in the great yard in front of the building . Above the crowd could be seen mottoes in great letters : " No armistice ! " " Vive la Commune ! " " Death ...
... hours . During this interval a mass of National Guards , armed and unarmed , gathered in the great yard in front of the building . Above the crowd could be seen mottoes in great letters : " No armistice ! " " Vive la Commune ! " " Death ...
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... hours , the crowd in the streets swelled to such numbers as to awe the Regulars . They therefore concluded to depart with as many cannon as they had horses to haul ; and , accordingly , they started down toward the centre of the city ...
... hours , the crowd in the streets swelled to such numbers as to awe the Regulars . They therefore concluded to depart with as many cannon as they had horses to haul ; and , accordingly , they started down toward the centre of the city ...
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... hour the following statement was posted in the streets : HOTEL DE VILLE , March 19 . CITIZENS : If the Committee of the National Guard were a Government , it might , out of respect for the dignity of its electors , disdain to justify ...
... hour the following statement was posted in the streets : HOTEL DE VILLE , March 19 . CITIZENS : If the Committee of the National Guard were a Government , it might , out of respect for the dignity of its electors , disdain to justify ...
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... hours more successful , but , while resting in what was thought to be a secure position , was savagely attacked by Regulars infuriated at the slaughter of their Surgeon , and put to ignominious flight . The Citizen Flourens was ...
... hours more successful , but , while resting in what was thought to be a secure position , was savagely attacked by Regulars infuriated at the slaughter of their Surgeon , and put to ignominious flight . The Citizen Flourens was ...
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Page 377 - Love thyself last ; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's...
Page 407 - My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 442 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul, or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has power ; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 392 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 443 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 492 - twas wild. But thou, O HOPE ! with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure? Still it whispered promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 409 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
Page 619 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's...
Page 393 - Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws To cast thee up again? what may this mean That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revisits thus the glimpses of the moon...
Page 652 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.