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" You know, we French stormed Ratisbon: A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind. Just as perhaps... "
In the Footsteps of Napoleon: His Life and Its Famous Scenes - Page 271
by James Morgan - 1915 - 522 pages
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...earth is its to claim, nor find a peer. AN INCIDENT AT RATISBON. You know we French storm'd Ralisbon: A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms lock'd behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...earth is its to claim, nor find a peer. AN INCIDENT AT RATISBON. You know we French storm'd Ratisbon: A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms lock'd behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive...
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The Living Authors of England

Thomas Powell - 1849 - 328 pages
...intelligibly. Witness the little incident at Batisbon : — " You know we French stormed Ratisbon,] A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out thrust ; you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow, Oppressive...
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Friendship's Forget-me-not

1849 - 274 pages
...air, And wander in the luxury of light. MONTGOMERY. VICTORY. You know we French stormed Batisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound Napoleon Stood on our storming day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...many birds it struck since May. INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP. You know, we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance...
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Pictures of the Living Authors of Britain

Thomas Powell - 1851 - 216 pages
...intelligibly. Witness the little incident at Ratisbon : — " You know we French stormed Ratisbon, A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out thrust ; you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow, Oppressive...
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The Boy's Birth-day Book: Tales

1859 - 450 pages
...clay cuttings in the very England which we now inhabit. THE CAMP. You know we French stormed Ratisbon ;A mile or so away, On a little mound Napoleon Stood, on our storming day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...many birds it struck since May. INCIDENT OF THE FRENCH CAMP. I. You know, we French stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming-day; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance...
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ...

Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...without a seam ! — II. ~W. Longfellow. THE BOY OF EATISBOH. You know we French stormed Ratisbon ; A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our storming day ; With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, Legs wide, arms locked behind, As if to balance the prone brow Just as perhaps...
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Forget me not

Forget - 1864 - 202 pages
...air, And wander in the luxury of light. MONTGOMERY. VICTORY. You know we Freneh stormed Ratisbon : A mile or so away -On a little mound Napoleon Stood on our storming day; With neek out-thrust, you faney how, Legs wide, arms loeked behind, As if to balanee the prone brow Oppressive...
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