No more firing was heard at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero - 288. lappuseautors: William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 624 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| 1911 - 856 lapas
... "No more firing was heard at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away Darkness came down on field and city: and Amelia was praying for George...on his face dead, with a bullet through his heart." There is no better example of Mr. Thackeray's exquisite style. Its dignity its reticence in... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 468 lapas
...the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heard at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia...on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH MISS CRAWLEY'S RELATIONS ARE VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT HER. )HE kind reader must... | |
| Anthony Trollope - 1879 - 228 lapas
...firing was heard at Brussels. The pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and the city ; and Amelia was praying for George, who was...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." Then follows the long courtship of Dobbin, the true hero he who has been the friend of George since... | |
| 1880 - 556 lapas
...firing was heard at Brussels. The pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and the city ; and Amelia was praying for George, who was...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." Then follows the long courtship of Dobbin, the true hero he who has been the friend of George since... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 732 lapas
...the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heard at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia...on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. CHAPTER XXXIII. IX WHICH MISS CRAWLEY S RELATIONS ARE VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT HER. HE kind reader must please... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 906 lapas
...the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heart! at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia...on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. CHAPTER XXXIII. IN WHICH MISS CRAWLEY'S RELATIONS ARE VERT ANXIOUS ABOUT HER. THE kind reader must... | |
| Geography reading books - 1882 - 290 lapas
...countrymen of the brave men who lost the day. All our friends took their share, and fought like men. Darkness came down on the field and city ; and Amelia...on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart ! ' XV. BRUSSELS TO NANTES. 1. THE next day we set out, as we had been advised, for Lidge, which stands... | |
| 1883 - 836 lapas
...firing was heard at Brussels. The pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and the city; and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying...his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart." Then follows the long courtship of Dobbin, the true hero he who has been the friend of George since... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 742 lapas
...the Guard turned and fled. No more firing was heard at Brussels the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city : and Amelia...on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart. CHAPTER XXXIII. IN MTHICH MISS CRAWLEY'S RELATIONS ARE VERY ANXIOUS ABOUT HER. THE kind reader must... | |
| John Ruskin - 1884 - 182 lapas
...; but Mr. Thackeray's close of his Waterloo chapter in ' Vanity Fair,' " And all the night long Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face dead with a bullet through his heart," is blasphemy of the most fatal and subtle kind. And the universal instinct of blasphemy in the modern... | |
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