[405] Fact: Suwaroff did this in person.
[HR]—— and neither swerve nor spill.—[MS. erased.]
[406] ["Le 19e et le 20e, Souwarow exerçailes soldats; il leur montra comment il fallait s'y prendre pour escalader; il enseigna aux recrues la manière de donner le coup de baïonnette."—Ibid., p. 208.]
[407] {320}["Pour ces exercices d'un nouveau genre, il se servit de fascines disposées de manière a représenter un Turc."-Hist, de la Nauvelle Russie, ii. 208.]
At which your wise men laughed, but all their Wit is
Lost, for his repartee was taking cities.—[MS. erased.]
For some were thinking of their wives and families,
And others of themselves (as poet Samuel is).