England from the ancient times, to the reign of Henry the FifthHarper & Brothers, 1853 |
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Seite 73 - Confessor's funeral. He had good need to be quick about it. When the news reached Norman William, hunting in his park at Rouen, he dropped his bow, returned to his palace, called his nobles to council, and presently sent ambassadors to Harold, calling on him to keep his oath and resign the crown. Harold would do no such thing. The barons of France leagued together round Duke William for the invasion of England. Duke William promised freely to distribute English wealth and English lands among them.
Seite 74 - HARDRADA, King of Norway. This brother, and this Norwegian King, joining their forces against England, with Duke William's help, won a fight in which the English were commanded by two nobles ; and then besieged York. Harold, who was waiting for the Normans on the coast at Hastings, with his army, marched to Stamford Bridge upon the river Derwent to give them instant battle.
Seite 77 - ... Norman arrows than if they had been showers of Norman rain. When the Norman horsemen rode against them, with their battle-axes they cut men and horses down. The Normans gave way. The English pressed forward. A cry went forth among the Norman troops that Duke William was killed. Duke William took off his helmet, in order that his face might be distinctly seen, and rode along the line before his men. This gave them courage. As they...
Seite 35 - ... himself to learn with great diligence, and soon won the book. He was proud of it, all his life. This great king, in the first year of his reign, fought nine battles with the Danes. He made some treaties with them too, by which the false Danes swore that they would quit the country.
Seite 161 - I should greatly like to be a King ! " " Then," said Philip, "you shall have two hundred gentlemen who are Knights of mine, and with them you shall go to win back the provinces belonging to you, of which your uncle, the usurping King of England, has,* taken possession. I myself, meanwhile, will head a force against him in Normandy.
Seite 176 - All night he lay ill of a burning fever, and haunted with horrible fears. Next day, they put him in a horse-litter, and carried him to Sleaford Castle, where he passed another night of pain and horror. Next day, they carried him, with greater difficulty than on the day before, to the castle of Newark upon Trent; and there, on the eighteenth of October, in the fortyninth year of his age, and the seventeenth of his vile reign, was an end of this miserable brute.
Seite 76 - The Normans then came sweeping down the hill to attack the English. There was one tall Norman Knight who rode before the Norman army on a prancing horse, throwing up his heavy sword and catching it, and singing of the bravery of his countrymen. An English Knight who rode out from the English force to meet him, fell by this Knight's hand.
Seite 14 - ... roars now. But the sea was not alive, then, with great ships and brave sailors, sailing to and from all parts of the world. It was very lonely. The Islands lay solitary, in the great expanse of water. The foaming waves dashed against their cliffs, and the bleak winds blew over their forests; but the winds and waves brought no adventurers to land upon...
Seite 39 - And these were the first lanterns ever made in England. All this time he was afflicted with a terrible, unknown disease, which caused him violent and frequent pain that nothing could relieve. He bore it, as he had borne all the troubles of his life like a brave good man, until he was fifty-three years old ; and then, having reigned thirty years, he died. He died in the year 901 ; but, long ago as that is, his fame, and the love and gratitude with which his subjects regarded him, are freshly remembered...
Seite 111 - But as they rowed away fast from the sinking ship the prince heard the voice of his sister, Marie, the Countess of Perche, calling for help. He never in his life had been so good as he was then. He cried in an agony, " Row back at any risk! I cannot bear to leave her! " They rowed back. As the prince held out his arms to catch his sister, such numbers leaped in that the boat was overset; and in the same instant the White Ship went down.