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... Field of Agincourt , 12. Joan of Arc , 13. William Caxton , ... 14. The End of the Wars of the Roses , Fyfe , Collier , Drayton , 84 89 95 Lingard , Fyfe , Gairdner , ... 99 ... ... 107 111 PART III . FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VII ...
... Field of Agincourt , 12. Joan of Arc , 13. William Caxton , ... 14. The End of the Wars of the Roses , Fyfe , Collier , Drayton , 84 89 95 Lingard , Fyfe , Gairdner , ... 99 ... ... 107 111 PART III . FROM THE ACCESSION OF HENRY VII ...
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... it were carried over to the protection of Italy and 410 Gaul . But that province , though secured by the A.D. Aleluyd ( Dumbarton ) Wall 9 Antonine's Caer - riden 410 A.D. ] 11 THE ROMAN CONQUEST . The Field of Agincourt,
... it were carried over to the protection of Italy and 410 Gaul . But that province , though secured by the A.D. Aleluyd ( Dumbarton ) Wall 9 Antonine's Caer - riden 410 A.D. ] 11 THE ROMAN CONQUEST . The Field of Agincourt,
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... field , Where armour is ringing , And noble blood springing , And , cloven , yawn helmet , stout hauberk , and shield . DEATH - GIVER ! I kiss thee . 6. The smile of a maiden's eye soon may depart 787 A.D. ] 31 DANISH SWORD CHANT .
... field , Where armour is ringing , And noble blood springing , And , cloven , yawn helmet , stout hauberk , and shield . DEATH - GIVER ! I kiss thee . 6. The smile of a maiden's eye soon may depart 787 A.D. ] 31 DANISH SWORD CHANT .
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... field , where helmet , hauberk , and shield , being cloven , yawn , " that is , gape . 5 Rest on my bosom . - Referring to the pagan custom of burying a warrior's sword with him . 7. - KING ALFRED AND THE DANES . [ King 32 [ 787 A.D. ...
... field , where helmet , hauberk , and shield , being cloven , yawn , " that is , gape . 5 Rest on my bosom . - Referring to the pagan custom of burying a warrior's sword with him . 7. - KING ALFRED AND THE DANES . [ King 32 [ 787 A.D. ...
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... field . CHARLES DICKENS : A Child's History of England . a - dorned ' , ornamented . ca - rous - ing , drinking jovially ; revel- ling . clus - tered , gathered ; crowded . dis - tinct - ly , plainly ; clearly . faith - ful - ly , in a ...
... field . CHARLES DICKENS : A Child's History of England . a - dorned ' , ornamented . ca - rous - ing , drinking jovially ; revel- ling . clus - tered , gathered ; crowded . dis - tinct - ly , plainly ; clearly . faith - ful - ly , in a ...
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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.