The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].1871 |
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Seite 6 - The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.
Seite 189 - ... during their lives and the life of the survivor of them; and that the sole and full exercise of the regal power be only in and executed by the said prince of Orange...
Seite 130 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Seite 182 - Sidney," said this Chief Justice of a merry reign, after passing sentence, " to work in you a temper fit to go to the other world, for I see you are not fit for this.
Seite 117 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Seite 31 - I am sorry, friend," replied the King, " that my vessel is already chosen, and that I cannot (therefore) sail with the son of the man who served my father. But the Prince and alJ his company shall go along with you, in the fair White Ship, manned by the fifty sailors of renown." An hour or two afterwards, the King set sail in the vessel he had chosen, accompanied by other vessels, and, sailing all night with a fair and gentle wind, arrived upon the coast of England in the morning. While it was yet...
Seite 53 - The best that can be said of him is that he was not cruel. De Roches coming home again, after ten years, and being a novelty, the king begau to favour him, and to look coldly on Hubert.
Seite 55 - Hating or loving, however, made no difference; he continued in the same condition for nine or ten years, when at last the Barons said that if he would solemnly confirm their liberties afresh, the Parliament would vote him a large sum. As he readily consented, there was a great meeting held in Westminster Hall, one pleasant day in May, when all the clergy, dressed in their robes and holding every one of them a burning candle in his hand, stood up (the Barons being also there) while the Archbishop...
Seite 142 - Cathedral, he should make one bold effort to induce them to rise, and follow him to the palace. So, on the Sunday morning, he and a small body of adherents started out of his house, — Essex House by the Strand, with steps to the river, — having first shut up in it, as prisoners, some members of the council who came to examine him, and hurried into the city with the earl at their head, crying out, " For the queen ! for the queen ! A plot is laid for my life.
Seite 183 - ... the wig had once saved his body, and was now come to save his soul. The Merry Monarch lived through that night, and died before noon on the next day, which was Friday, the sixth. Two of the last things he said were of a human sort, and your remembrance will give him the full benefit of them. When the Queen sent to say she was too unwell to attend him and to ask his pardon, he said, 'Alas!