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...w whether a thing was a church or not un- less it positively bristled with cannon, and many a Sunday afternoon have I played Chicago (with the fear of... ... home with nearly a couple of hundred lead soldiers, some excellent spring cannons that shot hard and true at six yards, hills of books and a constant... ...stick and speaking with a fire that was altogether revolutionary. This was Philip Snowden, the member for Blackburn. They had come in nearly forty str...

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... both his legs, which was cured through the king’s intercession. There was Philip Pitet, of the Benedictines, who had a suffocating cough, which welln... ...lf against the French King, and for the Austrian in the war be- tween King Philip and King Charles. But his Excellency, Don Scipio, prepared a reply, ... ...xhibit the same loyalty and devotion towards his present sov- ereign, King Philip V .; and by the time this letter was ready, the two officers had bee... ... shall marry early—Trix will be a duchess by that time, most likely; for a cannon ball may knock over his grace any day, you know.” “How?” says Harry.... ... Maestricht; the civil authori- ties coming to meet his coaches: salvos of cannon saluting him, canopies of state being erected for him where he stopp... ... Elector’s coaches, carried to his Highness’s palace amidst the thunder of cannon, and then once more magnificently enter- 70 Henry Esmond – Book Two... ... always at the first of the hunt. Our duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon as at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps he could not have been the... ...f this great plain was black and swarming with troops for hours before the cannon- ading began. On one side and the other this cannonading lasted many...

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...49 Helen, the Mother of Great Constantine, 350 Nor yet S[aint]. Philips daughters were like thee. 351 Bright Starre of Venus, falne d... ...71 These haughtie wordes of hers 1672 Haue batt’red me like roaring Cannon- shot, 1673 And made me almost yeeld vpon my knees. 1674 For...

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... thirsty lips that have made a still more trying renunciation. Our own Sir Philip Sidney, riding back, with the mortal hurt in his broken thigh, from ... ...ohn the Baptist denounced the sin of Herod Antipas in marrying his brother Philip’s wife, he bore the consequences to the utmost, when thrown into pri... ...trance into France. Thus it was that when, in 1346, Edward III. had beaten Philippe VI. at the battle of Crecy, the first use he made of his victory w... ...e besieg- ers suffered a great deal more damage than they could in- flict. Cannon had indeed just been brought into use at the battle of Crecy, but th... ...rance, as he claimed to be. Sir Jean made answer that he held the town for Philippe, King of France, and that he would defend it to the last; the hera... ...vaded by King David II. of Scotland, with a great army, and the good Queen Philippa, who was left to govern at home in the name of her little son Lion... ...the earth, and throwing up the soil in front into a bank, behind which the cannon and gunners are posted, with only small openings made through which ... ...ips of burthen bringing the horses of the Spahis, and such heavy battering cannon as rendered the dangers of a siege infinitely greater than in former... ... in the Borgo. The T urks set up their batteries, and fired their enormous cannon shot upon the fortifications. One of their terrible pieces of ordnan...

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...ds; Through the big dome the doubling thunder bounds; Loud as the burst of cannon rends the skies, The dire report through every region flies, In ever... ... Moore? 98 Does not one table Bavius still admit? Still to one bishop, 99 Philips seem a wit 100 Still Sappho—— A. Hold! f... ...equently headed their processions. 99 ‘Bishop Boulter:’ friend of Ambrose Philips. 204 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Go on, obl... ...e? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 102 ‘ A Persian tale:’ Ambrose Philips translated a book called the ‘Persian Tales.’ 206 The Poetical Wor... ...my dirty leaves (Like journals, odes, and such forgotten things As Eusden, Philips, Settle, writ of kings) Clothe spice, line trunks, or fluttering in...

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...r. Richard soon rebelled again, encouraged by his friend the French King, Philip the Second (son of Louis, who was dead); and soon submitted and was... ...usade. It was undertaken jointly by the King of England and his old friend Philip of France. They commenced the business by re viewing their forces, ... ...and supported by the French King. With all these causes of offence against Philip in his mind, King Richard had no sooner been welcomed home by his en... ...ngland had been searched from end to end to find him out. The French King, Philip, refused to acknowl edge the right of John to his new dignity, and ... ...y,’ said Prince Arthur, ‘I should greatly like to be a King!’ ‘Then,’ said Philip, ‘you shall have two hundred gentle men who are Knights of mine, an... ...admiral) to take some strong French ships, well defended with batteries of cannon. The upshot was, that he was left on board of one of them (in conseq... ...t the King sat in his palace listening very anxiously for the sound of the cannon which was to announce this new murder; and that, when he heard it co... ...ifficulty, and after an attempt to defend his house against the troops and cannon by which it was soon surrounded, gave himself up that night. He was ...

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...s. The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner With linstock now the devilish cannon touches, [Alarum, and chambers go off .] And down goes all before ... ...ye a terrible aspect; Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O’er... ...WER: I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it. FLUELLEN: I think it is in Macedon wher...

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...s war which subdued an empire stands to the personal act of brav- ery which spiked a single cannon and was adequately re- warded with a medal. For in ... ...not sleep until near morning, and I, for my part, never closed an eye. At sunrise I heard a cannon fired; and shortly afterwards the men in the next r... ...se woods have rung 99 Robert Louis Stevenson to the horns of all the kings of France, from Philip Augustus downwards. They have seen Saint Louis exer... ...tions. The next interruption is more important. For some time back we have had the sound of cannon in our ears; and now, a little past Franchard, we f... ... a by-road to avoid the sentries, and go on a while somewhat vaguely, with the sound of the cannon in their ears and the rain beginning to fall. The w... ...ste clearings where the scat- tered shells and broken fir-trees tell all too plainly of the cannon in the distance. And meantime the cannon grumble ou...

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... guns on the Richmond and Kingston line of hills began, there was a fitful cannonade far away in the southwest, due, I believe, to guns being fired ha... ...All the railway lines north of the Thames and the South- Eastern people at Cannon Street had been warned by mid- night on Sunday, and trains were bein... ...with a visual range not very different from ours except that, according to Philips, blue and violet were as black to them. It is commonly supposed tha...

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...gle art inspired then. Helen, the mother of great Constantine, Nor yet Saint Philip’s daughters, were like thee. Bright star of Venus, fall’n down on ... ... I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers Have batter’d me like roaring cannon shot, And made me almost yield upon my knees. Forgive me, country,...

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...oken heart comboined, for the horrud old Colonel, with a head as bald as a cannon- ball, was making sheep’s eyes at a half-caste girl there. Mrs. Mage... ...” “Cest le feu!” said Isidor, running to the balcony. “God defend us; it’s cannon!” Mrs. O’Dowd cried, starting up, and followed too to the window. A ... ...hapels, and knelt and prayed on the flags and steps. The dull sound of the cannon went on rolling, rolling. Presently carriages with travellers began ... ...ees at church hard by, praying for son homme a elle. When the noise of the cannonading was over, Mrs. O’Dowd issued out of Amelia’s room into the parl... ...of Brunswick fall, the black hussars fly, the Ecossais pounded down by the cannon. “And the —th?” gasped Jos. “Cut in pieces,” said the hussar—upon wh... ...chopped off the head of the Arthur of her day, who had been Chamberlain to Philip and Mary, and carried letters between the Queen of Scots and her unc... ...Gaunt, then at Paris, who won vast sums from the lady’s brother at some of Philip of Orleans’s banquets. The Earl of Gaunt’s famous duel with the Coun...

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...Austerlitz,” said he to me one day, “I saw every incident. The roar of the cannon, the cries of the fighting men rang in my ears, and made my inmost s... ... from the Huns to Charlemagne, from Charlemagne to Leo X., from Leo X., to Philip II., from Philip II. to Louis XIV.; from Venice to England, from Eng... ...poleon instinctively moving from a spot struck immediately afterwards by a cannon ball. XVII Between the sphere of Abstraction and that of Special- is...

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... The Em- peror Maximilian, great-grandfather to the now King 71 Montaigne Philip,—[Philip II. of Spain.]—was a prince endowed throughout with great a... ... taken it in another sense. Henry VII., King of England, articled with Don Philip, son to Maximilian the emperor, or (to place him more honourably) fa... ...lace him more honourably) father to the Emperor Charles V ., that the said Philip should deliver up the Duke of Suffolk of the White Rose, his enemy, ... ...ose, his enemy, who was fled into the Low Countries, into his hands; which Philip accordingly did, but upon condi- tion, nevertheless, that Henry shou... ...laces of sepulture, and there he should have his fill. Nevertheless, as to cannon-shot, when a body of men are drawn up in the face of a train of arti... ... Mondolfo, a place in the territories of the Vicariat in Italy, seeing the cannoneer give fire to a piece that pointed directly against him, it was we... ...o culverins, that would be a madman to abide a battery of thirty pieces of cannon—where also the greatness of the prince who is master of the field, h... ...ed at a tilting, and did not one of his ancestors die by jostle of a hog?—[Philip, eldest son of Louis le Gros.]—AEschylus, threatened with the fall o... ... not only the execution but the 386 Essays: Book the First thunder of our cannon also: “Ad ictus moenium cum terribili sonitu editos, pavor...

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...earned the more of Spain, from which she had set sail with so proud a company, and King Philip, the wealthy king, that sent her on that voyage. And no... ...ders pushed an army over the pass by forced marches, and for three days horse and foot, cannon and tumbril, drum and standard, kept pouring downward ... ...weariness, pity, and wonder; and all night long, after he was in bed, he could hear the cannon pounding and the feet trampling, and the great armament... ...s stood ajar, three of them like three ambushes, shaking his nerves like the throats of cannon. He could never again, he felt, be sufficiently im- mur... ... a tempest. It besieged the hamlet, apparently from every side, as if with batteries of cannon; the houses shook and groaned; live coals were blown up...

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...layed in the cap- ture since 21st December, 1861, of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of various rebel gunboats,... ...by Flag-officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, city of New Orleans, and the destruction of rebel gunboats, rams, e... ...sort by calling in militia from the adjacent States. We also have eighteen cannon on the road to Harper’s Ferry, of which arm there is not a single on... ...ent of the mortar flotilla during the bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Captain Silas H. Stringharn, now on the retired list, for dis- ting... ...E MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 2, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL HOOKER: It is said that Philip Margraf, in your army, is under sentence to be shot on Friday the 5t... ...en- eral Warren, and ended in the enemy being repulsed with a loss of four cannon and from four to seven hundred prisoners. A. LINCOLN. 439 The Writi...

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...: Book III way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love. Philippides, in my opinion, answered King Lysimachus very discreetly, who, ... ...e assault; ’tis the glittering of so much steel, the fire and noise of our cannon and drums, that have infused this new rigidity and fury into his vei... ...r and mediation? and, of old, Phaulius the Argian, who offered his to King Philip out of ambition; as Galba did it out of civility, who, having enter-... ... the front of their battle with three thousand such coaches, and after the cannon had played, made them all pour in their shot upon the enemy, who had... ...ers ought not to have the title of liberality.”—Cicero, De Offic., i. 14.] Philip, seeing that his son went about by presents to gain 138 Essays: Boo... ...enetrate our steel: to which may be added the lightning and thunder of our cannon and harquebuses, enough to frighten Caesar himself, if surprised, wi... ...part of the famous books are of this condition. 177 Montaigne When I read Philip de Commines, doubtless a very good author, several years ago, I ther... ...e and settle, often better than they could have been disposed by art. King Philip mustered up a rabble of the most wicked and incorrigible rascals he ...

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... Hence our device, Cil est nostre, taken at a tourna- ment in the reign of Philip Augustus, with the supporters, a 10 The Collection of Antiquities k... ...tten document stating the nature of the compromise, so as to keep a loaded cannon pointed at its heart.” “We agree,” said Chesnel, without admitting t... ...cy left! Napoleon’s Code Civil made an end of the parch- ments, exactly as cannon made an end of feudal castles. When you have some money, you will be...

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...ony. There was no getting into the town now, and the growling thunder of a cannon might now and then be heard. Jeph would have liked to spend all his ... ...ay, the sharp rattle of the musquets, and now and then the grave roll of a cannon. Stead had been too busy to attend, but half the village had been wa... ...ter now. Hark! they are beginning again,” as the growl of a heavy piece of cannon shook the ground. “I wonder where our Jeph is,” said the little girl... ...d got the treasure. ’T was for the King. And now they are all gone, Master Philip and all, and master says they are flibustiers, and pirates, and robb...

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...re than the Latinity that will surprise an English reader: HIC JACET PHILIPPUS ZAEHDARM, COGNOMINE MAGNUS, ZAEHDARMI COMES, EX IMPERII CON... ...s 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... ...llows:— “Horrible enough! A whole Marchfeld strewed with shell- splinters, cannon-shot, ruined tumbrils, and dead men and horses; stragglers still rem... ...a Divine Mission- ary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon’s throat, that great doctrine, La carriere ouverte aux talens (The T... ...ck- name of Beggars, heroically rallied and prevailed, though against King Philip himself? Intrinsic significance these had none: only extrinsic; as t...

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...to our hosts we’re ever rude, Jail-bread we’re forced to eat. And when the cannons growl around, And small arms rattle clear, And trumpet, trot, and d... ...ame-breathing grave, Oh, what noble lessons were those for the rash son of Philip, Were not the lord of the world e’en for instruction too great! 1789...