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... lady Mary had been betrothed to the emperor , and she was now eleven years older than his son . But Philip , who was preparing to marry an infanta of thirty - three , was quite willing to transfer his affections to a queen of thirty ...
... lady Mary had been betrothed to the emperor , and she was now eleven years older than his son . But Philip , who was preparing to marry an infanta of thirty - three , was quite willing to transfer his affections to a queen of thirty ...
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... ladies . At first he ordered his barber to pluck out the intruders . But for every white hair thus removed , he soon found that three more made their appearance ; and he doubted not that , if he had persevered in the de- pilatory ...
... ladies . At first he ordered his barber to pluck out the intruders . But for every white hair thus removed , he soon found that three more made their appearance ; and he doubted not that , if he had persevered in the de- pilatory ...
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... ladies who were now about to accompany their imperial brother in his voyage , and , like him , to seek retirement in Spain , the elder was the gentle and once beautiful Eleanor , queen dowager of Portugal and of France . She was now in ...
... ladies who were now about to accompany their imperial brother in his voyage , and , like him , to seek retirement in Spain , the elder was the gentle and once beautiful Eleanor , queen dowager of Portugal and of France . She was now in ...
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... Lady of the Magian kings , full of miraculous power , and of benevolence to sailors . Two lecterns of bronze , in the shape of eagles with expanded wings , and an altar - ternary of silver , which still adorn her shrine , are prized as ...
... Lady of the Magian kings , full of miraculous power , and of benevolence to sailors . Two lecterns of bronze , in the shape of eagles with expanded wings , and an altar - ternary of silver , which still adorn her shrine , are prized as ...
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... ladies , riding on the wintry blast , and uttering doleful cries as they descended into the sea . But in the night of the fifteenth of January , 1554 , a shout of joy rung through the broad square between the palace and the Tagus , when ...
... ladies , riding on the wintry blast , and uttering doleful cries as they descended into the sea . But in the night of the fifteenth of January , 1554 , a shout of joy rung through the broad square between the palace and the Tagus , when ...
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Page xiv - ... laid in his coffin, with much solemnity. The service for the dead was chanted, and Charles joined in the prayers which were offered up for the rest of his soul, mingling his tears with those which his attendants shed, as if they had been celebrating a real funeral. The ceremony closed with sprinkling holy water on the coffin in the usual form, and, all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those...
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Page xiv - ... all the assistants retiring, the doors of the chapel were shut. Then Charles rose out of the coffin, and withdrew to his apartment, full of those awful sentiments which such a singular solemnity was calculated to inspire. But either the fatiguing length of the ceremony, or the impression which...
Page 48 - ... retreat. It was seated in a vale of no great extent, watered by a small brook, and surrounded by rising grounds, covered with lofty trees ; from the nature of...