The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, Volume 2Robert Chambers W. & R. Chambers, 1883 - Anecdotes |
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... Prison of Man in Iron Mask , " The Spaniards , ' 1745 , • A Bagnigge Wells Scene , 1780 , Sadler's Wells , 1745 , White Conduit House , 1827 , ' The Dog and Duck , ' 1780 , La Pucelle , from her Monument Wayland Smith's Cave , Mass in ...
... Prison of Man in Iron Mask , " The Spaniards , ' 1745 , • A Bagnigge Wells Scene , 1780 , Sadler's Wells , 1745 , White Conduit House , 1827 , ' The Dog and Duck , ' 1780 , La Pucelle , from her Monument Wayland Smith's Cave , Mass in ...
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... prison , of self - inflicted starvation , on the 22d of July , having resolutely refused to take any food during the thirteen days which intervened between his arrest and death . sun is The story in itself is little more than a com- mon ...
... prison , of self - inflicted starvation , on the 22d of July , having resolutely refused to take any food during the thirteen days which intervened between his arrest and death . sun is The story in itself is little more than a com- mon ...
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... prison . ' Du Guesclin withdrew , but at the same time a gentleman arrived from the French king prepared to pay the sum required . He was raised to the highest post in the kingdom , that of Conné- table de France , in 1370 , amidst the ...
... prison . ' Du Guesclin withdrew , but at the same time a gentleman arrived from the French king prepared to pay the sum required . He was raised to the highest post in the kingdom , that of Conné- table de France , in 1370 , amidst the ...
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... prison were unveiled - its bolts broken " the - its iron doors burst open - its dungeons and sub- terranean cells penetrated - from the gates of the towers to their very deepest foundations and their summits . The iron rings and the ...
... prison were unveiled - its bolts broken " the - its iron doors burst open - its dungeons and sub- terranean cells penetrated - from the gates of the towers to their very deepest foundations and their summits . The iron rings and the ...
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... prison at his father's request . When restored free to Toulouse , his home , he was recognised by THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK . none , and died in poverty . Whether he had been guilty of some crime , or was the victim of oppres- sion , was ...
... prison at his father's request . When restored free to Toulouse , his home , he was recognised by THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK . none , and died in poverty . Whether he had been guilty of some crime , or was the victim of oppres- sion , was ...
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Page 284 - A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete. Toll for the brave! Brave Kempenfelt is gone; His last sea-fight is fought; His work of glory done. It was not in the battle; No tempest gave the shock; She sprang no fatal leak ; She ran upon no rock.
Page 195 - ... midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all, to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman...
Page 393 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Page 146 - E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely Contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, — Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away, To meet the sun upon the upland lawn...
Page 219 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Page 407 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
Page 146 - Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray ; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Page 299 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 174 - Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory — Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heaped for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.
Page 23 - I believe, towards the close of the last century, and the beginning of the present, sent out more living writers, in its proportion, than any other school.