Captain Sword and Captain Pen. A poem. With some remarks on war and military statesmenLondon, 1849 - 101 páginas |
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admiration agony babes beautiful Beggs BISHOPSGATE blood blow bosom breath call'd Captain Pen Captain Sword Carnage cause CHARLES GILPIN Cheshunt Christian Ciudad Rodrigo cloth contempt dead death Demerara DETAILING THE HORRORS dreadful drums dying earth EDITION ELIHU BURRITT Essay on Juvenile evil eyes face fearful feelings field of battle fight fire Foolscap 8vo glory God's daughter hath head heart horse houses human James Sherman Juvenile Depravity legs LEIGH HUNT London look Lope de Vega mind misery moral murder narrative nations nature necessity never night noble NOTES DETAILING pain PASCOE GRENFELL passions Penny Magazine perusal poem reader reason remedy round round shot scene sense sewed shell shriek sight soldiers soul sound Southey suffering Surrey Chapel sweet Sword and Captain tears thing thou thought thousand tion tread trumpets victory volume Waterloo word wounded writings
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Página 8 - God ! But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent. Is man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, — . Yea, Carnage is thy daughter...
Página 39 - Whilst the ladies loved him the more for his scorn, And thought him the noblest man ever was born, And tears came into the bravest eyes, And hearts swell'd after him double their size, And all that was weak, and all that was strong...
Página 40 - Twas all one dance going merrily down, With lights in windows and love in eyes, And a constant feeling of sweet surprise ; But all the next morning 'twas tears and sighs; For the sound of his drums grew less and less, Walking like carelessness off from distress ; And Captain Sword went whistling gay,
Página 80 - Next would come a party, rolling a cask of wine or spirits before them, with loud acclamations ; which in an instant was tapped, and in an incredibly short space of time emptied of its contents. Then the ceaseless hum of conversation, the occasional laugh, and wild shout of intoxication, the pitiable cries, or deep moans of the wounded, and the unintermitted roar of the flames, produced altogether such a concert, as no man who listened to it can ever forget.
Página 22 - The period will surely arrive when better instructed generations will require all the evidence of history to credit that, in times deeming themselves enlightened, human beings should have been honored with public approval in the very proportion of the misery they caused.
Página 38 - Hasty power midst order meet ; And ever and anon the drums and fifes Came like motion's voice, and life's ; Or into the golden grandeurs fell Of deeper instruments, mingling well, Burdens of beauty for winds to bear ; And the cymbals kiss'd in the shining air, And the trumpets their visible voices reared, Each looking forth with its tapestried beard, Bidding the heavens and earth make way For Captain Sword and his battle-array. He, nevertheless, rode...
Página 79 - ... ransacked, the furniture wantonly broken, the churches profaned, the images dashed to pieces ; wine and spirit cellars were broken open, and the troops, heated already with angry passions, became absolutely mad by intoxication. All order and discipline were abandoned. The officers had no longer the slightest control over their men, who, on the contrary, controlled the officers ; nor is it by any means certain, that several of the latter did not fall by the hands of the former, when they vainly...
Página 25 - It has been said, and may be repeated, that literature is fast becoming all in all to us — our Church, our Senate, our whole social constitution. The true Pope of Christendom is not that feeble old man in Rome, nor is its autocrat the Napoleon, the Nicholas, with...
Página 28 - With the attention due to his rank, I instantly begged he would do me the honour to walk in; and, after we had sufficiently bowed to each other, and I had prevailed upon my guest to sit down, I gravely requested him, as I stood before him, to be so good as to state in what way I could have the good fortune to render him any service. The Prince very briefly replied, that he had called upon me, considering...