The Story of the House of Lancaster

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E. Stock, 1897 - 322 Seiten
 

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Seite 95 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Seite 276 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie ; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the Race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead : Nor did he change ; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the Vales, and every cottage hearth ; The Shepherd Lord was honoured more and more ; And, ages after he was laid in earth, " The Good Lord Clifford
Seite 144 - God's will ! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It...
Seite 51 - What manner of women," saith he, "are you, that seem so little favorable unto me, whereas to my fellow here, besides high offices, ye assign also the kingdom, appointing forth nothing for me at all?" "Yes," saith the first of them, "we promise greater benefits unto thee than unto him, for he shall reign indeed, but with an unlucky end: neither shall he leave any issue behind him to succeed in his place, where contrarily thou indeed shalt not reign at all, but of thee those shall be born which shall...
Seite 249 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman, And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.
Seite 94 - Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke, — Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, — With slow, but stately pace, kept on his course, While all tongues cried — God save thee, Bolingbroke...
Seite 144 - O that we now had here But one ten thousand of those men in England That do no work to-day ! K.
Seite 209 - I had the upper part of her body in my hands, and I did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queen, and that this was my birth-day, thirty-six years old, that I did first kiss a Queen.
Seite 65 - He was pleased with the answer, and dipped into several places, reading parts aloud ; for he read and spoke French perfectly well ; and then gave it to one of his knights to carry to his oratory, and made me many acknowledgments for it.

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