 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 394 Seiten
...blow of a pole-ax ; although some assert that he was starved in prison. Thus died the imprudent and unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign, leaving neither son nor daughter to bewail his tragical end. Though his conduct was blarneable, yet... | |
 | David Hume - 1858 - 552 Seiten
...story, that his body was exposed in public, and that no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. All the writers who have transmitted to us... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1858 - 736 Seiten
...parliament confirmed his deposition (September 29, 1399), and he was soon after privately assassinated in the thirty-fourth year of his age and the twentythird of his reign. He left no posterity. Thus began the contentions between the houses of York and Lancaster. SECTION... | |
 | David Hume - 1858 - 566 Seiten
...prison, since his body was exposed in public, and no marks of violence were observed upon it. He died in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign ; and left no posterity, either legitimate or illegitimate. Richard appears to have been incapacitated... | |
 | Charles Clough - 1870 - 104 Seiten
...London, where he gave up the crown ; and afterwards confined in Pontefract Castle, where he was murdered, in the thirty-fourth year of his age and the twenty-third of his reign. 43. Richard II. was fond of show, and lived in grand style. There were in his whole household ten thousand... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 540 Seiten
...some assert that he was starved in prison, 15 Thus died the unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourtr year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. Though his conduct was blameahle, yet the punishment he suffeied was greater than his off'onces ; and in the end his sufferings... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1879 - 460 Seiten
...Richard was conveyed to Pontefract Castle, and there put to death in the beginning of the year 1400, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He is called the last sovereign of the line of Plantagenet ; Henry and his successors being styled... | |
 | William Winter - 1893 - 374 Seiten
...Second came to the throne of England in 1377, when he was only eleven years old; and he died in 1399, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He was an indolent man, profuse in expenditure, and addicted to feasting; and he wasted the revenues... | |
 | John Galsworthy - 1893 - 404 Seiten
...Second came to the throne of England in 1377, when he was only eleven years old; and he died in 1399, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. He was an indolent man, . profuse in expenditure, and addicted to feasting ; and he wasted the revenues... | |
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Thus died the unfortunate Richard, in the thirty-fourth year of his age, and the twenty-third of his reign. Though his conduct was blameable, yet the... 
