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Page 87 - Oh ! if I were Queen of France, or still better, Pope of Rome, I'd have no fighting men abroad, no weeping maids at home : All the world should be at peace, or, if kings must show their might, Why let those who make the quarrels be the only men to fight. Yes, let those, etc.
Page 86 - There is no one left to love me now, and you too may forget ; But my heart will be with you wherever you may go ! Can you look me in the face and say the same, Jeannot? When you wear the jacket red, and the beautiful cockade, Oh, I fear you will forget all the promises you made ! With...
Page 294 - The intrenched camp of the Russians, containing 50,000 men, with a numerous artillery and cavalry, on the heights of the Alma, was attacked on the...
Page 295 - Allied troops, and carried by the bayonet at half-pnst ?,, with a loss on our side of about 1400 killed and wounded, and an equal loss on the side of the French. The Russian army was forced to put itself in full retreat.
Page 86 - But my heart will be with you. Wherever you may go. Can you look me in the face And say the same, Jeannot? When you wear the jacket red. And the beautiful cockade. Oh! I fear...
Page 228 - ... Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.