 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1906 - Страниц: 366
...describing life at Brussels during the Waterloo campaign and leading up to the death of Amelia's husband. ' No more firing was heard at Brussels. The pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and the city — and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - 1906 - Страниц: 394
...rushed from the post from which no enemy had been able to dislodge them, and the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city: and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face,... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1901 - Страниц: 270
...climax of Waterloo lies not in the defeat of Napoleon nor the triumph of Wellington, but in that " Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." In Esmond Marlborough wins the battle of Blenheim, but " of this famous victory, Mr. Esmond knows nothing,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - Страниц: 368
...j'espere. (Ah, fi! profane, est-ce la mon collier? Quoi! ces grains d'or benits par le Saint-Fere!) field and city, and Amelia was praying for George,...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.' A great deal might have been sakl about it. The writer is very sorry for Amelia, neither does he want... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - Страниц: 372
...j'espere. (Ah, fi! profane, est-ce la mon collier? Quoi! ces grains d'or benits par le Saint-Pere!) field and city, and Amelia was praying for George,...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." A great deal might have been said about it. The writer is very sorry for Amelia, neither does he want... | |
 | Erwin Walter - 1908 - Страниц: 186
...eingeschlossenen Frauen für ihre in der Schlacht befindlichen Männer beten, endet mit den Zeilen: „. . . and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." Das 51. Kapitel ist ganz mit der Darstellung der Charadenaufführung ausgefüllt, bei der Becky so... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - Страниц: 840
...horse ; — but Mr. Thackeray's close of his Waterloo chapter in Vanity Fair, " And all the night long Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart," is blasphemy of the most fatal and subtle kind.8 And the universal instinct of blasphemy in the modern... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - Страниц: 840
...horse ; — but Mr. Thackeray's close of his Waterloo chapter in Vanity Fair, "And all the night long Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart," is blasphemy of the most fatal and subtle kind.3 And the universal instinct of blasphemy in the modern... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - Страниц: 370
...j'espere. (Ah, fi ! profane, est-ce la mon collier ? Quoi! ces grains d'or benits par le Saint-Pere!) field and city, and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on bis face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.' A great deal might have been said about it. The writer... | |
 | 1926 - Страниц: 780
...certain volumes from our shelves almost at random we encounter the following: On Sunday, June i8th "Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart" (Thackeray's Vanity Fair) ; July 31 st The Young Prince and Esmond cross swords in honor of Beatrix... | |
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No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. 
