Stories from Russia, Siberia, Poland and CircassiaRussell Lee T. Nelson, 1853 - 444 sivua |
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Admiralty Anapa ancient appearance arms army beautiful Black Sea Boleslas bound in cloth bridges capital Casimir Catherine Caucasus character chief church Circassians civilization command Cossacks court crime Crimea cross crowd crown Czar despotic Dnieper drosky effect Emperor empire Empress enemy Europe exiles favour feet Finland Foolscap 8vo foreign French Gilt leaves grand granite Gulf Gulf of Finland hand head hetman honour horses hundred imperial inhabitants king knout lady Lake Ladoga liberty means Morocco elegant Moscow mountain Muscovite nations Neva night nobles occasion officers palace passed person Peter Petersburg picture Poland Poles police Polish present priests Prince Prince Potemkin prisoners rank river Russian Russian empire Salta says scarcely Schamil seemed seen serf Siberia side singular sledges soldiers soon Tartars thousand throne tion took town traveller troops Ukraine vast whole winter
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Sivu 239 - KOSCIUSKO fell! The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there. Tumultuous Murder shook the midnight air — On Prague's proud arch...
Sivu 239 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! — Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep those lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name, we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! — with her to die...
Sivu 240 - Departed spirits of the mighty dead! Ye that at Marathon and Leuctra bled! Friends of the world! restore your swords to man, Fight in his sacred cause, and lead the van! Yet for Sarmatia's tears of blood atone, And make her arm puissant as your own! Oh! once again to Freedom's cause return The patriot TELL — the BRUCE OF BANNOCKBURN!
Sivu 239 - Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm. Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death...
Sivu 239 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Sivu 313 - The weak and helpless either shrunk back from the fray, and sat down to wait their fate at a distance, or, mixing in it, were thrust over the bridges, crushed under carriages, cut down perhaps with sabres, or trampled to death under the feet of their countrymen. All this while the action continued with fury, and, as if the Heavens meant to match their wrath with that of man, a hurricane arose, and added terrors to a scene which was already of a character sodreadful.
Sivu 53 - ... nothing for two days before. Carpenters and shipwrights sit next to the Czar, but senators, ministers, generals, priests, sailors, buffoons of all kinds, sit pell-mell without any distinction. ' ' The first course consists of nothing but cold meats, among which are hams, dried tongues, and the like, which not being liable to such tricks as shall be mentioned hereafter, strangers ordinarily make their whole meal of them, without tasting anything else, though, generally speaking, every one takes...
Sivu 288 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Sivu 238 - Pealed her loud drum, and twanged her trumpet horn ; Tumultuous horror brooded o'er her van, Presaging wrath to Poland — and to man ! Warsaw's last champion from her height surveyed, Wide o'er the fields, a waste of ruin laid; Oh, Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave?
Sivu 54 - Russian does not care to mix the sauces of the different dishes together, he pours the soup that is left in his plate either into the dish or into his neighbour's plate, or even under the table, after which he licks his .plate clean with his finger, and, last of all, wipes it with the tablecloth.