Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . rey. And with Deckards long rifles the British rose fast to the fray; And never, with arms of more vigor. Did their bayonets press through the strife. Where, with every swift pull of the trigger,The sharp-shooters dashd out a life! Hurrah! VIII. Twas the meeting of eagles and lions, Twas the rushing of tempests and waves,Insolent triumph gainst patriot defiance. Born freemen gainst sycophant slaves;Scotch Ferguson sounding his whistle, As from danger to danger he the moral that lies in Scotch thistle. W
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . rey. And with Deckards long rifles the British rose fast to the fray; And never, with arms of more vigor. Did their bayonets press through the strife. Where, with every swift pull of the trigger,The sharp-shooters dashd out a life! Hurrah! VIII. Twas the meeting of eagles and lions, Twas the rushing of tempests and waves,Insolent triumph gainst patriot defiance. Born freemen gainst sycophant slaves;Scotch Ferguson sounding his whistle, As from danger to danger he the moral that lies in Scotch thistle. With its touch me who dare! and he dies! Hurrah! IX. An hour, and the battle is over. The eagles are rending the prey;The serpents seek flight into cover. But the terror still stands in the way:More dreadful the doom that on treason Avenges the wrongs of the State;And the oak-tree for many a season Bears its fruit for the vultures of Fate! Hurrah ] THE FOUR GEOEGES. SItETCHES OF MANNERS, MORALS, COURT AND TOWN LIFE. BY W. M. THACKERAY. III.—GEORGE THE QUEEN WE have to glance over sixty years in asmany minutes. To read the mere cata-logue of characters who figured during that long I period would occupy our allotted time, and weI should have all text and no sermon. Englandhas to undergo the revolt of the American colo-nies ; to submit to defeat and separation ; toshake under the volcano of the French Revolu-tion ; to grapple and fight for the life with hergigantic enemy Napoleon ; to gasp and rallyafter that tremendous struggle. The old so-ciety, with its courtly splendors, has to passaway; generations of statesmen to rise and dis-appear ; Pitt to follow Chatham to the tomb ;the memory of Rodney and Wolfe to be super-seded by Nelsons and Wellingtons glory; theold poets who unite us to Queen Annes time tosink into their graves ; Johnson to die, and Scottand Byron to arise; Garrick to delight the worldwith his dazzling dramatic genius, and Kean toleap on the s
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