Alicia de Lacy, by the author of 'The loyalists'.1814 |
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Pagina 4
... English army : by the former , all supplies were removed ; by the latter , every straggler was cut off . King Edward's cavalry were not fleet enough to pursue them , and they had orders to avoid an engagement . Stirling castle was the ...
... English army : by the former , all supplies were removed ; by the latter , every straggler was cut off . King Edward's cavalry were not fleet enough to pursue them , and they had orders to avoid an engagement . Stirling castle was the ...
Pagina 5
... English history . There King Robert had drawn up his army ; small , but well appointed , admirably trained , and united by a generous attachment to their leader , and a sense of their national inde- pendence . The night previous to the ...
... English history . There King Robert had drawn up his army ; small , but well appointed , admirably trained , and united by a generous attachment to their leader , and a sense of their national inde- pendence . The night previous to the ...
Pagina 8
... English horse fell at their first charge , and rose no more . haps Robert would have dispensed with some of these precautions , had he known the exact state of the array that opposed him ; exhausted by a long march ; en- feebled by the ...
... English horse fell at their first charge , and rose no more . haps Robert would have dispensed with some of these precautions , had he known the exact state of the array that opposed him ; exhausted by a long march ; en- feebled by the ...
Pagina 11
... English cuiraissers found themselves on ground stuck full of sharp spikes of iron ; behind which the Scotch again rallied , formed , and completed their destruction . While this passed in the centre , Ed- ward Bruce , with his ...
... English cuiraissers found themselves on ground stuck full of sharp spikes of iron ; behind which the Scotch again rallied , formed , and completed their destruction . While this passed in the centre , Ed- ward Bruce , with his ...
Pagina 12
... English , say the Scottish historians , were this day slain or taken . Seven hundred knights , the flower of national chivalry , lay dead on the field ; and among that number , the young Earl of Gloucester , the idol of the nation ...
... English , say the Scottish historians , were this day slain or taken . Seven hundred knights , the flower of national chivalry , lay dead on the field ; and among that number , the young Earl of Gloucester , the idol of the nation ...
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abbess affection affliction Agatha alarm Alicia Amesbury answered arms army attire banner baron Beatrice beauty Bishop Bishop of Exeter blessing bosom Canford child Conradine Countess of Lancaster court cruelty daughter dear death Earl of Lancaster Earl of Surrey Edward endeavoured England English escape Eubulo exclaimed eyes faithful fate Father Nicholas favour fear feelings fortitude grave grief Guido habits hand happy heard heart heaven Henry Holland holy honour hope house of Lancaster husband impostor indulgence King Kirklee knight Lady Emmeline looked Lord Surrey Matilda ment mercy mind misery monk Montford mother never noble numbers nuptial passions peace Pendergrass pious pity Plantagenet Pontefract prayers Prince recollected replied returned Robert Holland saint Sandal castle Scots shew silent Simon de Montford Sir Hilary solemn soon sorrow soul surely surprize Surrey's sword tears thee Thomas Plantagenet thou thought tion trembling veil weep wife Wimborn minster wish woes
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Pagina 252 - Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans.
Pagina 295 - hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How often must it love, how often hate I How often hope, despair, resent, regret, Conceal,
Pagina 74 - with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! — Trust ye? With every minute you do change a mind, And call
Pagina 148 - Lean not on earth, •twill pierce thce to the heart: A broken reed at best; but oft a spear. On its sharp point Peace bleeds, and Hope expires.
Pagina 21 - Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A
Pagina 165 - I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat i' the adage.
Pagina 1 - side, • Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, "And starves exhausted regions in his way,; Attendant flattery counts his myriads o'er;
Pagina 187 - Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposite.
Pagina 336 - And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while
Pagina 333 - the sayings of another are esteemed, thine slighted ; others ask and obtain, thou beggest, and art refused; they are cried up, thou disgraced; and while they are employed, thou art laid by as fit for nothing; or an unworthy person commands thee, and rules thee