ISBN: 9781154117486

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrat… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1902. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... By which we tumbled headlong into--No-land. Now, if without a bullet after me, I could but get a peep of my old home--Perhaps of my own mule to take me there--All''s still--perhaps the gentlemen within Are dreaming it is night behind their masks--God send ''em a good nightmare!--Now then--Hark! Voices--and up the rocks--and armed men Climbing like cats--Puss in the corner then. He hides. Enter Soldiers cautiously up the rocks. Captain. This is the frontier pass, at any rate, Where Poland ends and Muscovy begins. Soldier. We must be close upon the tower, I know, That half way up the mountain lies ensconced. Capt. How know you that? Sol. He told me so--the Page Who put us on the scent. Sol. 2. And, as I think, Will soon be here to run it down with us. Capt. Meantime, our horses on these ugly rocks Useless, and worse than useless with their clatter--Leave them behind, with one or two in charge, And softly, softly, softly. Soldiers. There it is I--There what?----The tower--the fortress----That the tower!----That mouse-trap! We could pitch it down the rocks With our own hands. The rocks it hangs among Dwarf its proportions and conceal its strength; Larger and stronger than you think. No matter; No place for Poland''s Prince to be shut up in. At it at once! Capt. No--no--I tell you wait--Till those within give signal. For as yet We know not who side with us, and the fort (117) Is strong in man and musket. Sol. Shame to wait For odds with such a cause at stake. Capt. Because Of such a cause at stake we wait for odds--For if not won at once, for ever lost: For any long resistance on their part Would bring Basilio''s force to succour them Ere we had rescued him we come to rescue. So softly, softly, softly, still--A Soldier (discovering Fife). Hilloa! Soldiers,--Hilloa! Here ... Edward Fitzgerald, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Variorum and Definitive Edition of the Poetical and Prose Writings of Edward Fitzgerald (Volume 5); Including a Complete Bibli Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction <

2012, ISBN: 1154117480

[EAN: 9781154117486], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], (00072 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date =… More...

[EAN: 9781154117486], Neubuch, [PU: General Books], (00072 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. {Publisher's Publication Date = 2012-01-01 00:00:00} [ships from USA takes 8-14 days to Europe] (This is a black and white Optical Character Recognition (OCR) reprint of an original book using Print on Demand. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text, this is not a set)Lang=English accessory:NO ACCESSORY (Paperback )<