...re is more than the Latinity that will surprise an English reader: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS ZAEHDARM, COGNOMINE MAGNUS, ZAEHDARMI COMES, EX IMPERII CONCILI... ...his Sorrows of Napoleon Opera, in an all too stupendous style; with music of cannon volleys, and murder shrieks of a world; his stage lights are the fi... ... follows:— “Horrible enough! A whole Marchfeld strewed with shell splinters, cannon shot, ruined tumbrils, and dead men and horses; stragglers still ... ...was a Divine Missionary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon’s throat, that great doctrine, La carri` ere ouverte aux talens (T... ...t nickname of Beggars, heroically rallied and prevailed, though against King Philip himself? Intrinsic significance these had none: only extrinsic; as ...

...ens Chapter 1 M Y FATHER’S FAMILY name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more ex... ... that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, w... ...d with – the same reason for wanting to borrow a file. Didn’t you hear the cannon last night?” “Then, there was firing!” he said to himself. “I wonder... ...mp – I see a hundred. And as to firing! Why, I see the mist shake with the cannon, arter it was broad day – But this man;” he had said all the rest, a... ... “ All right,” said the sergeant. “March.” W e had not gone far when three cannon were fired ahead of us with a sound that seemed to burst something i... ...ery muddy, and so we splashed along. Now and then, the sound of the signal cannon broke upon us again, and again rolled sulkily along the course of th... ... and said I would. I informed him in ex- change that my Christian name was Philip. “I don’t take to Philip,” said he, smiling, “for it sounds like a m... ... we went into the churchyard, close to the graves of my unknown par- ents, Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above. ... ...ern?” Much surprised by the request, I took the note. It was di- rected to Philip Pip, Esquire, and on the top of the super- scription were the words,...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. My father?s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip....