| 1822 - 496 pages
...hands upon the walls or the windows on the side next to Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It was the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire,...into the ocean of flame below. • Oh, it was the roost grand, the most sublime, and <he most terrific the world ever beheld ! !" POLYHYMMA. BY J.YMES... | |
| William Henry Ireland - 1822 - 334 pages
...side next to Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It was the spectacle of a sea and hillows of fire, a sky and clouds of flame ; mountains of...themselves to skies of fire, and then sinking into the flame below. Oh, it was the most grand, the most sublime, and the most terrific sight the world ever... | |
| 1850 - 704 pages
...apartment were so hot that he could scarcely bear his hand against them. Said he, years afterwards, " It was the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and clouds of flame, like immense waves of the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating themselves to skies of fire,... | |
| William Jones - 1825 - 572 pages
...the walls or the windows on the side next to Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It teas the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky...alternately bursting forth and elevating themselves to skies offlre, and then sinking into the ocean of flame below. Oh ! it was the most grand, the most sublime,... | |
| Charles Angélique François Huchet comte de La Bédoyère - 1827 - 570 pages
...could scarcely bear their hands upon the walls and windows on the side next Moscow. It was, he said, the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky...below. Oh, it was the most grand, the most sublime, the most terrific sight the world ever beheld ! ! To the premature cold, and the burning of Moscow,... | |
| 1828 - 506 pages
...Review, JVb. 1, p. 22-245. BUONAPARTE'S DESCRIPTION " IT was the spectacle of a sea and billows of lire ; a sky and clouds of flame ; mountains of red rolling...bursting forth and elevating themselves to skies of lire ; and then sinking into the ocean of the flame helow. 0 it was the most grand, the most Of THE... | |
| 1828 - 284 pages
...scarcely 'iear their hands upon the walls and windows on the Jide next Moscow. " It was," he said, " the spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and clouds > -f flame ; mountains of red rolling flames, like immense waves of the sea, alternately bursting forth... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1832 - 586 pages
...the walls of the windows on the side next to Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It was a spectacle of a sea and billows of fire, a sky and...themselves to skies of fire, and then sinking into oceans of Jlame below. Oh! it was the most grand, the most sublime, the most terrific sight the world... | |
| 1837 - 680 pages
...hands upon the walls or the windows on the side next to " Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It was the " spectacle of a sea and billows of fire,...the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating them" selves to skies of fire, and then sinking into the ocean of " flame below. Oh .' it was the most... | |
| 1837 - 670 pages
...hands upon the walls or the windows on the side next to " Moscow, in consequence of their heated state. It was the " spectacle of a sea and billows of fire,...flame; mountains of red rolling flames, like immense wares " of the sea, alternately bursting forth and elevating them" selves to skies of fire, and then... | |
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