Les miserables: I. Fantine, tr. byWilliam Walton. 2v. II. cosette, tr. by J.C.Beckwith. 2v. III. Marius, tr.by Jules Gray. 2v. IV. The idyl of the Rue Plumet and the epic of the Rue Saint-Denis, tr. by Edouard Jolivet. 2v. V. Jean Valjean, tr. by Jules Gray. 2vH.S. Nichols, 1895 |
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Página 55 - An odd numerical coincidence, twenty-six battalions were to receive these twenty-six squadrons. Behind the crest of the plateau, under cover of the masked battery, the English infantry, formed in thirteen squares, two battalions to the square, and upon two lines — seven on the first, and six on the second — with musket to the shoulder, and eye upon their sights, waiting calm, silent, and immovable.
Página 58 - ... excessive weight in human destiny disturbed the balance. This individual alone was of more account than the universal group : such plethoras of human vitality concentrated in a single head — the world, mounting to one man's brain — would be mortal to civilization if they endured. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible supreme equity to reflect, and it is probable that the principles and elements on which the regular gravitations of the moral order as of the material order depend, complained....
Página 27 - Reille is there with Jerome Bonaparte ; the right-hand lower point is La Belle Alliance, Napoleon is there. A little below the point where the cross of the A meets and cuts the right stroke, is La Haie Sainte. At the middle of this cross is the precise point where the final battle-word was spoken. There the lion is placed, the involuntary symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard.
Página 86 - ... with destiny; the river, the plain, the forest, and the hill summoned, and to some extent, compelled to obey, the despot going so far as even to tyrannize over the battlefield; faith in a star, blended with strategic science, heightening, but troubling it.
Página 57 - ... after the battle. Napoleon, before ordering this charge of Milhaud's cuirassiers, had examined the ground, but could not see this hollow road, which did not make even a wrinkle on the surface of the plateau. Warned, however, and put on his guard by the little white chapel which marks its junction with the Nivelles road, he had, probably on the contingency of an obstacle, put a question to the guide Lacoste. The guide had answered no.
Página 77 - The gloomy squares, deserted, conquered, and terrible, struggled formidably with death, for Ulm, Wagram, Jena, and Friedland were dying in it. When twilight set in at nine in the evening, one square still remained at the foot of the plateau of Mont St. Jean. In this mournful valley, at the foot of the slope scaled by the cuirassiers, now inundated by the English masses, beneath the converging fire of the hostile and victorious artillery, under a fearful hailstorm of projectiles, this square still...
Página 90 - Altogether, we will assert, there is more of a massacre than of a battle in Waterloo. Waterloo, of all pitched battles, is the one which had the smallest front for such a number of combatants. Napoleon's three-quarters of a league.
Página 58 - It was time that this vast man should fall. The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the equilibrium.
Página 55 - ... a stormy bounding of horses among cannon, and a disciplined and terrible array ; while above it all flashed the cuirasses like the scales of the dragon. Such narratives seemed to belong to another age ; something like this vision was doubtless traceable in the old Orphean epics describing the men-horses, the ancient hippanthropists, those Titans with human faces and equestrian chest whose gallop escaladed Olympus, — horrible, sublime, invulnerable beings, gods and brutes.
Página 52 - Emperor rose up and reflected. Wellington had fallen back. It remained only to complete this repulse by a crushing charge. Napoleon, turning abruptly, sent off a courier at full speed to Paris to announce that the battle was won. Napoleon was one of those geniuses who rule the thunder. He had found his thunderbolt. He ordered Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the plateau of Mont Saint Jean.