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... death of Richard the Second in 1399 and 1100 ; but of the first thirty years of this period , ending with the battle of Poictiers in 1356 , Froissart was not himself the original narrator ; concerning the events of this time , he tells ...
... death of Richard the Second in 1399 and 1100 ; but of the first thirty years of this period , ending with the battle of Poictiers in 1356 , Froissart was not himself the original narrator ; concerning the events of this time , he tells ...
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... death , though not without much pains and expense but these he minded not , being rich and powerful . " Froissart seems , however , to have recast John le Bel's work , incorpo- rating with it much additional matter of his own . The ...
... death , though not without much pains and expense but these he minded not , being rich and powerful . " Froissart seems , however , to have recast John le Bel's work , incorpo- rating with it much additional matter of his own . The ...
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... death of Richard the Third in 1485 , -a line of fourteen princes , and a period of great events in the history of this country . The times of our Edwards and Henries , of the Plantaganet race , bear a relation to the history of England ...
... death of Richard the Third in 1485 , -a line of fourteen princes , and a period of great events in the history of this country . The times of our Edwards and Henries , of the Plantaganet race , bear a relation to the history of England ...
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... death . It was the force of the old blood of the north , common to both Saxon and Norman races . War was their chief business ; the tournament- no bad imitation of war when the original was not to be had - their chief pleasure . The ...
... death . It was the force of the old blood of the north , common to both Saxon and Norman races . War was their chief business ; the tournament- no bad imitation of war when the original was not to be had - their chief pleasure . The ...
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... death in the drifted snow , which naturally collects round the only object which interrupts its course for miles and miles . It is difficult to conceive how any class of the exiled to these Tartarian wilds , whether the victims of ...
... death in the drifted snow , which naturally collects round the only object which interrupts its course for miles and miles . It is difficult to conceive how any class of the exiled to these Tartarian wilds , whether the victims of ...
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Page 126 - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Page 252 - I wooed the blue-eyed maid, Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.
Page 253 - THE RAINY DAY. THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 252 - But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders. Wild was the life we led ; Many the souls that sped, Many the hearts that bled, By our stern orders. " Many a wassail-bout Wore the long Winter out ; Often our midnight shout Set the cocks crowing, As we the Berserk's tale Measured in cups of ale, Draining the oaken pail, Filled to o'erflowing.
Page 251 - Pale flashes seemed to rise, As when the Northern skies Gleam in December ; And, like the water's flow Under December's snow, Came a dull voice of woe From the heart's chamber.
Page 411 - ... hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people...
Page 252 - Oft to his frozen lair Tracked I the grisly bear, While from my path the hare Fled like a shadow ; Oft through the forest dark Followed the werewolf's bark, Until the soaring lark Sang from the meadow. " But when I older grew, Joining a corsair's crew, O'er the dark sea I flew With the marauders.
Page 226 - return to him, and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth, as long as my son is alive. And also say to them that they suffer him this day to win his spurs; for if God be pleased, I will this journey be his and the honour thereof, and to them that be about him.
Page 411 - I would establish but one great general rule to be observed in all conversation, which is this, "that men should not talk to please themselves, but those that hear them." This would make them consider, whether what they speak be worth hearing; whether there be either wit or sense in what they are about to say; and, whether it be adapted to the time when, the place where, and the person to whom, it is spoken.
Page 210 - the innocency of childhood, the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age, and all at eighteen ; the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk, the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parent's offences.