The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 Seiten |
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... soon besieged and obliged to surrender at discretion . Alfred granted them better terms than they could have expected ; he agreed to give up the whole kingdom of the East Angles to such as would embrace the Christian religion , on ...
... soon besieged and obliged to surrender at discretion . Alfred granted them better terms than they could have expected ; he agreed to give up the whole kingdom of the East Angles to such as would embrace the Christian religion , on ...
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... soon as King Edward was dead , William demanded the execution of this promise ; and on Harold's refusal , prepared to assert his rights by the sword . He assembled , for the inva- sion of England , a host , which Mackintosh has rightly ...
... soon as King Edward was dead , William demanded the execution of this promise ; and on Harold's refusal , prepared to assert his rights by the sword . He assembled , for the inva- sion of England , a host , which Mackintosh has rightly ...
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... soon as they were formed , he again addressed them ; and as he prayed , they all fell upon their knees . They kneel , ' exclaimed some of the English ; ' they beg for mercy . ' ' Do not deceive yourselves , ' said Ingelram de Umfraville ...
... soon as they were formed , he again addressed them ; and as he prayed , they all fell upon their knees . They kneel , ' exclaimed some of the English ; ' they beg for mercy . ' ' Do not deceive yourselves , ' said Ingelram de Umfraville ...
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... soon Among the prisoners was the thunder roared and the one whose story furnished the lightning flashed , and the rain Scots with a merry jest to grace descended in torrents . At five their triumph . He was a certain in the afternoon ...
... soon Among the prisoners was the thunder roared and the one whose story furnished the lightning flashed , and the rain Scots with a merry jest to grace descended in torrents . At five their triumph . He was a certain in the afternoon ...
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... soon completed . When Sir Walter Manny returned to the camp of the victorious Edward , with that mirror to patriots , Eustace de St. Pierre , and his fellow - hostages , the monarch inquired , ' Are these the principal inhabitants of ...
... soon completed . When Sir Walter Manny returned to the camp of the victorious Edward , with that mirror to patriots , Eustace de St. Pierre , and his fellow - hostages , the monarch inquired , ' Are these the principal inhabitants of ...
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Seite 155 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Seite 95 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Seite 95 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Seite 158 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Seite 211 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Seite 96 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Seite 64 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Seite 197 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Seite 117 - ... their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Seite 169 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.