The Staff Officer; Or, The Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life, כרך 2E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833 |
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The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life <span dir=ltr>Oliver Moore</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life <span dir=ltr>Oliver Moore</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
The Staff Officer: Or, the Soldier of Fortune: A Tale of Real Life <span dir=ltr>Oliver Moore</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 205 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
עמוד 98 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
עמוד 92 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
עמוד 39 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
עמוד 201 - The adventures follow each other with delightful rapidity and variety ; occasionally there is a deep and thrilling touch of pathos, which we feel not a bit the less acutely, because the trouble and wo of the parties have originated in the familiar and somewhat laughable act of pulling an ear.
עמוד 202 - Admirable. Truly, intensely Irish. The whole book has the brogue — never were the outrageous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically displayed; nor, in the midst of all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a jewel, and he will be reviewed next number. Shepherd. The Eerishers are marchin in leeterature, pawri pashu? wi