The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne Written by HimselfMacmillan, 1905 - 402 頁 |
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Addison admire afterwards aide-de-camp army asked bade beautiful better brought called Captain Chelsea child church coach Colonel Esmond Court cousin cries daughter dear mistress dearest Dick Doctor Tusher dowager Duke enemy England eyes face Father Holt fond Frank French friends gave gentleman Grace grief hand Harry Esmond Harry's hath heard heart Henry Hexton honour horses Jesuit Kensington kind King kinsman kissed knew Lady Castlewood lady's ladyship laugh London look Lord Castlewood Lord Marlborough Lord Mohun Lord Viscount lord's lordship madam Majesty mamma Marlborough married Monsieur mother never night poor pretty Prince Prince of Orange prison quarrel Queen Ramillies says Esmond says my lord smile spoke Steele sword talk Thomas Esmond thought told took Trix twas Viscount Castlewood Viscountess Walcote Webb Westbury Whig widow wife woman word young Esmond young lord
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第 51 頁 - Papa could not hear me, and would play with me no more, for they were going to put him under ground, whence he could never come to us again.
第 51 頁 - The first sense of sorrow I ever knew was upon the death of my father, at which time I was not quite five years of age; but was rather amazed at what all the house meant, than possessed with a real understanding why nobody was willing to play with me.
第 182 頁 - ... decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground, was firm but flexible, and whose motion, whether rapid or slow, was always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen — now melting, now imperious, now sarcastic, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she came holding her dress with one fair rounded arm, and her taper before her, tripping down the stair to greet Esmond....
第 393 頁 - ... to be looking to one of us to help him to his coat. But neither stirred. "We shall take care," says Esmond, "not much oftener to offend in that particular." "What mean you, my lord ? " says the Prince, and muttered something about a. guet-&-pens, which Esmond caught up. " The snare, Sir," said he, " was not of our laying ; it is not we that invited you.
第 235 頁 - Esmond came to this spot in one sunny evening of spring, and saw, amidst a thousand black crosses, casting their shadows across the grassy mounds, that particular one which marked his mother's resting-place. Many more of those poor creatures that lay there had adopted that same name, with which sorrow had rebaptized her, and which fondly seemed to hint their individual story of love and grief.
第 330 頁 - Parting and forgetting! What faithful heart can do these? Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us. Surely, they cannot separate from our consciousness; shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
第 200 頁 - ... yet those of the army, who knew him best and had suffered most from him, admired him most of all: and as he rode along the lines to battle or galloped up in the nick of time to a battalion reeling from before the enemy's charge or shot, the fainting men and officers got new courage as they saw the splendid calm of his face, and felt that his will made them irresistible.
第 179 頁 - December — it is your birthday ! But last year we did not drink it — no, no. My Lord was cold, and my Harry was likely to die : and my brain was in a fever ; and we had no wine. But now — now you are come again, bringing jrour sheaves with you, my dear.
第 199 頁 - ... before victory, before danger, before defeat. Before the greatest obstacle or the most trivial ceremony; before a hundred thousand men drawn in battalia, or a peasant slaughtered at the door of his burning hovel, before a carouse of drunken German lords, or a monarch's court, or a...
第 218 頁 - Twas then great Marlborough's mighty soul was proved, That, in the shock of charging hosts unmoved, Amidst confusion, horror, and despair, Examined all the dreadful scenes of war: In peaceful thought the field of death surveyed, To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid, Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage.