 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY But the grandest chapter of our experience, within the whole mail-coach service, was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory. A period of about ten years stretched from Trafalgar to Waterloo :...  Miscellaneous Essays - Sivu 155tekijä(t) Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 276 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1849 - 822 sivua
...the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. OOIN6 DOWN WITH VICTORT. But the grandest chapter of onr experience, within the whole mail-coach service, was...inclusively, furnished a long succession of victories ; the loast of which, in a contest of that portentous nature, had an inappreciable value of position— partly... | |
 | 1849 - 812 sivua
...introduced though playfully) by the transfigured coachman of the Bath mail. GOING DOWN WITH VICTO К Y. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...the second and third years of which period (1806 and 1807)'were comparatively sterile; but the rest, from 1805 to 1815 inclusively, furnished a long succession... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 sivua
...heaven, where is sculptured the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter...Waterloo; the second and third years of which period (180G and 1807) were comparatively sterile; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 382 sivua
...heaven, where is sculptured the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories ; * " Households... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 380 sivua
...heaven, where is sculptured the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories; * " Households... | |
 | William Lewins - 1865 - 362 sivua
...says one who often rode the coaches between 1805 and 1815 (a memorable period for the English arms) " was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory." " Five years of life," adds this eloquent and enthusiastic writer, "it was worth paying down for the... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 sivua
...heaven, where is sculptured the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories ; the least of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 640 sivua
...heaven, where is sculptured the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY. But the grandest chapter...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories; the least of which,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 636 sivua
...the eternal writing which proclaims the frailty of earth and her children. GOING DOWN WITH VICTOKY. But the grandest chapter of our experience, within...(1806 and 1807) were comparatively sterile ; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories ; the least of... | |
 | Harold Esdaile Malet, Nimrod - 1876 - 470 sivua
...traveller between 1 ' Selections, Grave and Gay.' 1805 and 1815 (a memorable period for the English arms) ' was on those occasions when we went down from London with the news of victory.' Daily each part of every coach was very critically inspected by a regular inspector ; every morning... | |
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