Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Volume 114H. Colburn, 1894 - Military art and science |
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Page 228 - And half of the rest of us maim'd for life In the crash of the cannonades and the desperate strife; And the sick men down in the hold were most of them stark and cold, And the pikes were all broken or bent, and the powder was all of it spent...
Page 228 - And the masts and the rigging were lying over the side; But Sir Richard cried in his English pride, " We have fought such a fight for a day and a night As may never be fought again! We have won great glory, my men! And a day less or more At sea or ashore, We die — does it matter when? Sink me the ship, Master Gunner — sink her, split her in twain! Fall into the hands of God, not into the hands of Spain!" And the gunner said, "Ay, ay," but the seamen made reply: "We have children, we have wives,...
Page 230 - ... on the quarter-deck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of the vanquished Spaniards ; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen, who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm.
Page 390 - O THOU, that sendest out the man To rule by land and sea, Strong mother of a Lion-line, Be proud of those strong sons of thine Who wrench'd their rights from thee! What wonder, if in noble heat Those men thine arms withstood, Retaught the lesson thou hadst taught. And in thy spirit with thee fought — Who sprang from English blood! But Thou rejoice with liberal joy. Lift up thy rocky face, And shatter, when the storms are black...
Page 233 - ... scarcely be imagined. The fellows thus disguised were directed to board by the head, and the effect produced was precisely that calculated on. The greater portion of the Spaniard's crew was prepared to repel boarders in that direction, but stood for a few moments as it were transfixed to the deck by the apparition of so many diabolical-looking figures emerging from the white smoke of the bow guns ; whilst our other men, who boarded by the waist, rushed on them from behind, before they could recover...
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Page 244 - Walter Scott's zeal in the cause was very curious. He was the soul of the Edinburgh troop of Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry. It was not a duty with him, or a necessity, or a pastime, but an absolute passion, indulgence in which gratified his feudal taste for war, and his jovial sociableness. He drilled, and drank, and made songs, with a hearty conscientious earnestness which inspired or shamed everybody within the attraction.
Page 339 - What have I to do with your sheep, Sir? What have I to do with your cattle? Are you to have such flocks of sheep and herds of cattle as no man ever heard of before? No, Sir, I have heard of your concerns, Sir.
Page 159 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast, that I was the first minister who looked for it, and found it, in the mountains of the North. I called it forth, and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men...
Page 700 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'