Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe: The Greek revolution

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D. Estes, 1906

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Стр. 37 - They are true to the last of their blood and their breath, And like reapers descend to the harvest of death. Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock ! Let him dash his proud foam like a wave on the rock...
Стр. ix - True as the knights of story, Sir Lancelot and his peers, Brave in his calm endurance As they in tilt of spears.
Стр. vii - O that man once more were manly, Woman's pride, and not her scorn: That once more the pale young mother Dared to boast 'a man is born' ! "But, now life's slumberous current No sun-bowed cascade wakes; No tall, heroic manhood The level dulness breaks.
Стр. 363 - Englishman, afterward MP and pamphleteer. I had to journey much to and from Corinth, Napoli, etc., always on horseback, or in boat, and often by night. It was a time and place where law was not; and sometimes we had to defend ourselves against armed and desperate stragglers from the bands of soldiers now breaking up. We had many 'scrimmages,' and I had several narrow escapes with life.
Стр. 26 - I joined one of the small guerilla bands that hung about the enemy, doing all the harm they could. I could be of little or no use as surgeon, and was expected to divide my attention between killing Turks, helping Greeks, and taking care of myself. " I was naturally very handy, active, and tough, and soon became equal to any of the mountain soldiery in capacity for endurance of fatigue, hunger, and watchfulness. I could carry my gun and heavy belt with...
Стр. 401 - I waited day after day for some carte-de-visite of myself, but it is only within a day or two that I have been enabled to lay the inclosed grizzled head at the feet of Madame de Bismarck and her fair daughter. My wife has no photograph, and resolutely refuses to have one done. Inclosed is one of my second daughter, Mary. Susie has none at present. When there are any I will send one. I now consider myself justified...
Стр. 395 - Elbing. stopped at the tavern, and a dozen people were standing at the door ; as the carts passed, the Germans gazed with their round unmeaning eyes ; but not a voice was heard, not a hand was raised, not a hat was waved in the air. There was no sympathy in their souls, or if there was, they dared not express it ; for the Argus eyes of the police were there. I forgot the police and everything else but the feelings natural to man ; and imprudently yielding to that impulse, I waved my hat in the air,...
Стр. 34 - I have been months without eating other flesh than mountain snails, or roasted wasps ; weeks without bread, and days without a morsel of food of any kind. Woe to the stray donkey or goat that fell within our reach then ; they were quickly slain, and their flesh, cut up hastily in little square bits, was roasting on our ramrods, or devoured half -raw.
Стр. 25 - Mavrocordato came to the south of Peloponnesus with such forces as they could raise. At first there was an attempt to organize the army, and I attempted to create hospitals and to organize ambulances for the wounded.
Стр. vii - O FOR a knight like Bayard, Without reproach or fear ; My light glove on his casque of steel, My love-knot on his spear...

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