Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of Elizabeth ...F. Warne & Company, 1865 - 687 páginas |
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... marches through Gallia . So full of peril was this enterprise esteemed , as not without all this equipage , and stranger terrors than Roman armies to meet the native and the naked British valour defending their country . Joined with ...
... marches through Gallia . So full of peril was this enterprise esteemed , as not without all this equipage , and stranger terrors than Roman armies to meet the native and the naked British valour defending their country . Joined with ...
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... marches , ( When many a frozen storm sung thro ' my cuirass , And made it doubtful whether that or I Were the more stubborn metal ) have I wrought thro ' , And all to try these Romans . Ten times a - night I've swam the rivers , when ...
... marches , ( When many a frozen storm sung thro ' my cuirass , And made it doubtful whether that or I Were the more stubborn metal ) have I wrought thro ' , And all to try these Romans . Ten times a - night I've swam the rivers , when ...
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... marched away to the Lea , which seemed covered by the enemy's ships , and at great personal risk surveyed with his own eyes this new fortified camp of the Danes . His active mind presently conceived a plan which was much safer and surer ...
... marched away to the Lea , which seemed covered by the enemy's ships , and at great personal risk surveyed with his own eyes this new fortified camp of the Danes . His active mind presently conceived a plan which was much safer and surer ...
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... marches against the Caledonians , but dies at Eboracum ( York ) . Caracalla yields the ground between the Solway and Tyne and the Friths of Clyde and Forth to the Caledonians . 288 Carausius defeats the Scandinavian and Saxon pirates ...
... marches against the Caledonians , but dies at Eboracum ( York ) . Caracalla yields the ground between the Solway and Tyne and the Friths of Clyde and Forth to the Caledonians . 288 Carausius defeats the Scandinavian and Saxon pirates ...
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... surrounding country . Harold arrives in London from the north , and in six days marches against the Normans . Oct. 14. The battle of Hastings ; Harold is slain . BOOK III . WILLIAM I. TO HENRY III . 35. 134 HALF - HOURS OF ENGLISH HISTORY .
... surrounding country . Harold arrives in London from the north , and in six days marches against the Normans . Oct. 14. The battle of Hastings ; Harold is slain . BOOK III . WILLIAM I. TO HENRY III . 35. 134 HALF - HOURS OF ENGLISH HISTORY .
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Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of Elizabeth Charles Knight Visualização integral - 1899 |
Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of Elizabeth Charles Knight Visualização integral - 1866 |
Half Hours of English History: From the Roman Period to the Death of ... Visualização integral - 1865 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbey ancient Anglo-Saxon archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury arms army barons battle battle of Hastings Becket bishop blood Bretwalda brother Cæsar called Canute castle cause chroniclers church commanded Conqueror conquest court crown Danes daughter death defeated duke earl Edward Edward the Confessor enemies English Enter father favour fear feudal force France French friends Gloucester Godwin hand Harold hast hath head heart heaven Henry II holy honour horse John King Henry king of England king of Scots king's kingdom knights land Lanfranc London lord Matilda monks Montfort never noble Norman Normandy oath peace person pope possession priest prince prisoner queen reign Ricola Robert Rochester Castle Roman Rome royal Rufus Saxon Scotland Scots sent slain soldiers soul Stephen sword thee Thomas à Becket thou throne took Tower town Tyrrel unto Wallace William William the Conqueror Winchester Wolfstan words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 478 - This story shall the good man teach his son ; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered...
Página 452 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks...
Página 566 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost; And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 356 - Girt with many a baron bold, Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames and statesmen old In bearded majesty appear...
Página 61 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 356 - The verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. A voice as of the cherub-choir Gales from blooming Eden bear, And distant warblings lessen on my ear That lost in long futurity expire.
Página 354 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Página 568 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr...
Página 514 - I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest ; So many hours must I contemplate ; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young ; So many weeks ere the poor fools will...
Página 417 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king : The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.