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... father's care , and brought up amongst the mountain fastnesses of Wales , in the primitive simplicity of the hunter's life . The nurture which Shakspere has assigned to these youths is in harmony with their historical prowess . There ...
... father's care , and brought up amongst the mountain fastnesses of Wales , in the primitive simplicity of the hunter's life . The nurture which Shakspere has assigned to these youths is in harmony with their historical prowess . There ...
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... Father Dis ( or Pluto ) , and this , they say , has been handed down by the Druids : for this reason , they distin- guish all spaces of time not by the number of days , but of nights ; they so regulate their birth - days , and the ...
... Father Dis ( or Pluto ) , and this , they say , has been handed down by the Druids : for this reason , they distin- guish all spaces of time not by the number of days , but of nights ; they so regulate their birth - days , and the ...
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... father in the back ; but his com- panions observing this , shouted out ; and being thus startled at the noise , he de- sisted from his purpose . Severus also turned round at their clamour , and saw the sword , although he uttered not a ...
... father in the back ; but his com- panions observing this , shouted out ; and being thus startled at the noise , he de- sisted from his purpose . Severus also turned round at their clamour , and saw the sword , although he uttered not a ...
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... father for so long a time should thus linger and make but slow advances towards death , appeared to him tedious and vexatious ; he therefore persuaded the physicians and attendants to treat him in such manner as might rid him of the old ...
... father for so long a time should thus linger and make but slow advances towards death , appeared to him tedious and vexatious ; he therefore persuaded the physicians and attendants to treat him in such manner as might rid him of the old ...
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... father cheer ; if that , if that indeed Ye have a father still- ( bursting into tears . ) Third Wom . Alack , alack ! of all my goodly stuff I've saved but only this ! my winter's webs And all the stores that I so dearly saved ! I ...
... father cheer ; if that , if that indeed Ye have a father still- ( bursting into tears . ) Third Wom . Alack , alack ! of all my goodly stuff I've saved but only this ! my winter's webs And all the stores that I so dearly saved ! I ...
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Abbey ancient Anglo-Saxon archbishop arms army barons battle battle of Hastings Becket bishop blood body Bretwalda brother Cæsar called Canute castle cause chroniclers church commanded Conqueror conquest court crown Danes daughter death defeated duke earl Edward the Confessor enemies English Enter father favour fear feudal fief force France French friends Gloucester Godwin hand Harold hast hath head heart heaven Henry II holy honour horse John King Henry king of England king of France king of Scots king's kingdom knights land Lanfranc London lord Matilda monks Montfort never noble Norman Normandy oath peace person Philip pope possession priest prince prisoner queen reign Ricola Robert Rochester Castle Roman royal Rufus Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish sent slain soldiers soul Stephen sword thee Thomas à Becket thou throne took Tower town Tyrrel unto vassals Wallace William Winchester Wolfstan words
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Page 450 - Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin new reap'd Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; He was perfumed like a milliner ; And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again ; Who therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Page 568 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me. Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye : I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes...
Page 480 - That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart ; his passport shall be made And crowns for convoy put into his purse. We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Page 63 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 421 - s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. Let's choose executors, and talk of wills...
Page 421 - All murdered : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 454 - By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Page 358 - Stay, oh stay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unbless'd, unpitied, here to mourn: In yon bright track, that fires the western skies, They melt, they vanish from my eyes. But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glitt'ring skirts unroll?
Page 421 - Let's choose executors, and talk of wills : And yet not so, — for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground ? Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke's ; And nothing can we call our own but death, And that small model 15 of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.
Page 451 - Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God save the mark!) And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti, for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, That villainous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.