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...offic- ers was at its height, they chose me for commander, to lead them to Luneville, to get back the prisoners of the Regi- ment Mestre-de-Camp, and ... ... military, Patriot and Prussian, taking up positions, on the Heights of La Lune and other Heights; shifting and shoving,—seemingly in some dread chess... ... with serried ranks and cannon, glooming over to him from the height of La Lune; only the little brook and its little dell now parting them. So that t... ...dows and fields, and is now again obliged to press itself through a narrow bridge, and flow on in its bounded channel. Down the long street, all visib... ...s now, in the possibility, nay certainty and near ad- vent, of a universal Millennium, or reign of Freedom, Equal- ity, Fraternity, wherein man should... ...ut which cannot always submit to have its pocket picked, in this way,—of a Millennium! Yes, Reader, here is a miracle. Out of that putrescent rubbish ... ...he reign of Fraternity and Perfection. Imagine, we say, O Reader, that the Millennium were struggling on the threshold, and yet not so much as groceri... ...day, and again all night. On Thursday, not long before none, we are at the Bridge of Neuilly; here is Paris with her thousand black domes,—the goal an... ... armed force was on foot, cannons getting placed at the extremities of the Bridges, in the Squares, Crossways, all along from the Palais de Justice to...
...ings self approbation; Whereas the other, after all its glare, Shouts, bridges, arches, pensions from a nation, Which (it may be) has not mu... ... hour is not for us, but ‘t is for you: And as, in the great joy of your millennium, You hardly will believe such things were true As now oc... ...ome time, and night was on the ridge Of twilight, as the party cross’d the bridge,— That ‘s rather fine. The gentle sound of Thamis— Who vindi... ...mposition, Was dearly purchased by his land’s perdition. I ‘m ‘at my old lunes’—digression, and forget The Lady Adeline Amundeville; The fai...
... proud to sit by her; and preaches, lifted up over all Bastilles, a coming millennium. From far Ferney, Patriarch Voltaire gives sign: veterans Didero... ...s much. Blessed also is Hope; and always from the beginning there was some Millennium prophesied; Millennium of Holiness; but (what is notable) never ... ...Millennium of Holiness; but (what is notable) never till this new Era, any Millennium of mere Ease and plentiful Supply. In such prophesied Lubberland... ...l spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Bridges: as if for the State too there were halcyon weather, and nothing to... ...arth and Heavens, what a work! Battles and bloodshed, September Massacres, Bridges of Lodi, retreats of Moscow, Waterloos, Peterloos, Tenpound Fran- c... ...lashed by seven-and-twenty wounds in one fell day lie sunk together on the Bridge at Casano; while Prince Eugene’s cavalry galloped and regalloped ove... ...n; and with the third, a trooper to be de- pended upon, he—gallops off for Luneville; where lies a cer- tain Carabineer Regiment not yet in a mutinous... ...eering, with noise and jingle, up the valley of the River Meurthe, towards Luneville and the midday sun: through an astonished country; indeed almost ... ...like;—which Actaeon de Malseigne happily gains! To arms, ye Carabineers of Luneville: to chastise mutinous men, insulting your General Officer, insult...