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... Father's Bier , 5. Richard I. in Palestine , 6. Magna Carta , ... 7. The Black Prince at Creçy , 8. Wat Tyler's Rising , ... Lingard , 50 Church , 54 Robertson , 58 Hemans , 61 Hume , 65 Stubbs , 69 Stanley , 74 Dickens , 80 9. The ...
... Father's Bier , 5. Richard I. in Palestine , 6. Magna Carta , ... 7. The Black Prince at Creçy , 8. Wat Tyler's Rising , ... Lingard , 50 Church , 54 Robertson , 58 Hemans , 61 Hume , 65 Stubbs , 69 Stanley , 74 Dickens , 80 9. The ...
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... fathers had moved over Europe from east to west , till they were stopped by the broad mouth of the Elbe , and by the bleak and dreary shores of the North Sea , had learned that the ocean , though very terrible , offered a useful war ...
... fathers had moved over Europe from east to west , till they were stopped by the broad mouth of the Elbe , and by the bleak and dreary shores of the North Sea , had learned that the ocean , though very terrible , offered a useful war ...
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... fathers of the Christian Church , who flourished | from 387 till 430 A.D. He was Bishop of Hippo in Africa . The English Augustine , as he may be called , died in 605 . 4 The Cym / ri , the Celtic natives of Britain . Of the Celtic ...
... fathers of the Christian Church , who flourished | from 387 till 430 A.D. He was Bishop of Hippo in Africa . The English Augustine , as he may be called , died in 605 . 4 The Cym / ri , the Celtic natives of Britain . Of the Celtic ...
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... father of English learning . " The tradition of the older classic culture was first revived for England in his ... Fathers . But he was far from confining himself to theology . In treatises compiled as text - books for his scholars ...
... father of English learning . " The tradition of the older classic culture was first revived for England in his ... Fathers . But he was far from confining himself to theology . In treatises compiled as text - books for his scholars ...
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... father , stern joy of his hand , Thou hast carved his name deep on the stranger's red strand , And won him the glory of undying song . Keen cleaver of gay crests , Sharp piercer of broad breasts , Grim slayer of heroes , and scourge of ...
... father , stern joy of his hand , Thou hast carved his name deep on the stranger's red strand , And won him the glory of undying song . Keen cleaver of gay crests , Sharp piercer of broad breasts , Grim slayer of heroes , and scourge of ...
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Alfred Anselm Archbishop arms army attack Augustine Bæda barons battle became Becket Benedict Biscop bishops body Britain Britons broke Cabul Calais called Canterbury Christian Church coast command conquest Crecy crown Danes death died Duke Duke of Burgundy Earl Edward Edward the Confessor enemy English eyes Farnese father fell Fitzurse Flanders fleet force France French Gaul Guthrum hand Harold Hastings heart Henry Hereward History of England Holy House island Jutes Kent King king's kingdom kiss thee knights land London Long Parliament Lord Darcy Lord Raglan Malet marched Mary ment monks nation Norman Normandy Northumbria oath Parliament passed persons Philip Picts plunder Pope Prince prisoners Queen reform reign Richard rode Roman Rome royal Saladin Saracens Saxons Scotland Scots sent ships siege of Acre soldiers Spain sword thine Thomas Becket thou thousand throne tion took town victory William words Wulfnoth
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Seite 163 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Seite 164 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Seite 164 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Seite 163 - But hark! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
Seite 162 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Seite 163 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Seite 94 - FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Seite 94 - Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilboes...
Seite 151 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Seite 159 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.