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... thing by a good writer is much better in its place than can even be conceived by those who see it detached from the context . His own good things are not excepted from this general rule ; but the character of his work is such , that his ...
... thing by a good writer is much better in its place than can even be conceived by those who see it detached from the context . His own good things are not excepted from this general rule ; but the character of his work is such , that his ...
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... it is hoped that this volume may do some- thing to spread the influence of an author whose pen has never sinned against honour , liberty , or virtue . October , 1876 . CONTENTS . HISTORICAL SCENES . THE BATTLE Of Sedgemoor , Preface . vii.
... it is hoped that this volume may do some- thing to spread the influence of an author whose pen has never sinned against honour , liberty , or virtue . October , 1876 . CONTENTS . HISTORICAL SCENES . THE BATTLE Of Sedgemoor , Preface . vii.
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... thing that the two regiments could do would be to sail back to England . He meant , he said , to withdraw himself privately ; and the inhabitants must then try to make good terms for themselves . He went through the form of holding a ...
... thing that the two regiments could do would be to sail back to England . He meant , he said , to withdraw himself privately ; and the inhabitants must then try to make good terms for themselves . He went through the form of holding a ...
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... things from the Governor . Meanwhile it was rumoured that the persons most in Lundy's confidence were stealing out of the town one by one . Long after dusk on the evening of the seventeenth it was found that the gates were open and that ...
... things from the Governor . Meanwhile it was rumoured that the persons most in Lundy's confidence were stealing out of the town one by one . Long after dusk on the evening of the seventeenth it was found that the gates were open and that ...
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... thing ; no , not the young girls ; not the babies at the breast . As to the leaders , death was too light a punish- ment for them : he would rack them : he would roast them alive . In his rage he ordered a shell to be flung into the ...
... thing ; no , not the young girls ; not the babies at the breast . As to the leaders , death was too light a punish- ment for them : he would rack them : he would roast them alive . In his rage he ordered a shell to be flung into the ...
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Page 474 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Page 369 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.
Page 461 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Page 459 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously — ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Page 462 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may — For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray — Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme, to-day, the helmet of Navarre.
Page 462 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Page 460 - Till the proud peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales, Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light...
Page 459 - The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down...
Page 458 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer day, There came a gallant merchant-ship full sail to Plymouth Bay ; Her crew had seen Castile's black fleet, beyond Aurigny's Isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves lie heaving many a mile. At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial grace; And the tall Pinta, till the noon, had held her close in chase.
Page 461 - With all its priest-led citizens, and all its rebel peers, And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land; And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand: And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...