The Battle of Tofrek: Fought Near Suâkin, March 22nd, 1885, Under Major-General Sir John Carstairs M'Neill, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., in Its Relation to the Mahdist Insurrection in the Eastern Sûdan and to the Campaigns of 1884 and 1885W.H. Allen, 1887 - Počet stran: 399 |
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Strana 168 - How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh Which vernal Zephyrs breathe in Evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Strana 71 - Each, with his blooming beauty by his side, Shall drink rich wines, that in full rivers glide; Breathe fragrant gales o'er fields of spice that blow, And gather fruits immortal as they grow ; Ecstatic bliss shall your whole pow'rs employ, And ev'ry sense be lost in ev'ry joy.
Strana xxxix - And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse Betwixt the wind and his nobility.
Strana 141 - Whilst at Rhoda, this army had attracted much surprise and admiration. The Turks were astonished at the novel spectacle of men of colour being so well disciplined and trained ; indeed, the general magnificence of the establishment of the Indian army was so different from what they had been accustomed to see in General Hutchinson's, that the contrast could not fail of being striking.
Strana 399 - ... kittar, with a widespreading head in the young glory of green leaf, tempted my hungry camel during our march ; it was determined to procure a mouthful, and I was equally determined that it should keep to the straight path, and avoid the attraction of the green food. After some strong remonstrance upon my part, the perverse beast shook its ugly head, gave a roar, and started off in full trot straight at the thorny bush. I had not the slightest control over the animal, and in a few seconds it charged...
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Strana 102 - I have not been guilty of robbery or murder, and he has certainly changed his mind; but the world, which is always good-natured towards those whose affairs do not exactly prosper, will not fail to suspect that both or worse have been the occasion of my being banished, like General Kray, to my estate in Hungary.
Strana 83 - No permanent dwellingplace can be erected on a foundation of sand ; and no durable or humanising polity upon a foundation of fatalism, despotism, polygamy and slavery. When Muhammadan States cease to be racked by revolutions, they succumb to the poison diffused by a corrupt moral atmosphere. A Durwesh, ejaculating ' Allah ! ' and revolving in a series of rapid gyrations until he drops senseless, is an exact image of .the course of their history.