Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Volume 4,Edição 31 -Volume 6,Edição 59William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1845 |
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... at the place appointed , they numbered no more than 30,000 fighting men , and about 15,000 camp fol- lowers . To make up for the inferiority of his army in point of numbers , Bruce chose his ground warily , on the 23 WALLACE AND BRUCE .
... at the place appointed , they numbered no more than 30,000 fighting men , and about 15,000 camp fol- lowers . To make up for the inferiority of his army in point of numbers , Bruce chose his ground warily , on the 23 WALLACE AND BRUCE .
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... ground , cavalry would have the greatest difficulty in acting , was a field called the New Park , having the town of Stirling , with woods between , on the left , and the small brook or burn of Bannock on the right . Here , therefore ...
... ground , cavalry would have the greatest difficulty in acting , was a field called the New Park , having the town of Stirling , with woods between , on the left , and the small brook or burn of Bannock on the right . Here , therefore ...
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... ground , fixed in a large earthfast stone , which Scotchmen now go many miles to see , the Scottish battalions waited the onset . Edward Bruce's wing was the first attacked ; but in a short time all the three bodies were engaged , and ...
... ground , fixed in a large earthfast stone , which Scotchmen now go many miles to see , the Scottish battalions waited the onset . Edward Bruce's wing was the first attacked ; but in a short time all the three bodies were engaged , and ...
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... ground - floor was a large servants ' hall , in which was a grand staircase , and a cupboard where the plate was locked up , of which one of the chambermaids kept the key . In a small room partitioned off from the hall slept the valet ...
... ground - floor was a large servants ' hall , in which was a grand staircase , and a cupboard where the plate was locked up , of which one of the chambermaids kept the key . In a small room partitioned off from the hall slept the valet ...
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... ground ; and some of his friends who surrounded the gallows contrived to give the body some support as it was suspended . After being cut down , those friends bore it speedily away in a coffin , and in the course of a few hours ...
... ground ; and some of his friends who surrounded the gallows contrived to give the body some support as it was suspended . After being cut down , those friends bore it speedily away in a coffin , and in the course of a few hours ...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts William Chambers,Robert Chambers Visualização integral - 1846 |
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Página 28 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. " Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Página 27 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Página 5 - gan stir, With a short uneasy motion — Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound : It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Página 8 - Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Página 4 - Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Página 8 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook...
Página 2 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and Is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there Is a silent Joy at their arrival.
Página 29 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe : For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Página 28 - He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Página 31 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.