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... ladies in the pride of youth and beauty , and lordlings of haughty air , gorged with the wealth , and fattened on the spoils , of the banished Anglo - Saxons . Little thought they that in the midst of life they were so near death ! But ...
... ladies in the pride of youth and beauty , and lordlings of haughty air , gorged with the wealth , and fattened on the spoils , of the banished Anglo - Saxons . Little thought they that in the midst of life they were so near death ! But ...
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... ladies allied to kings and princes , had that evening sailed from Barfleur . Only a poor lad escaped to carry the doleful tale to the haunts of living men . A butcher of Rouen , Berauld by name , and a boy of gentle birth , Gilbert de l ...
... ladies allied to kings and princes , had that evening sailed from Barfleur . Only a poor lad escaped to carry the doleful tale to the haunts of living men . A butcher of Rouen , Berauld by name , and a boy of gentle birth , Gilbert de l ...
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... lady still in her teens ; but his rank as a Duke and his fame as a champion of the Cross were fascinations not to be resisted ; so Curthose led the fair Sybil to the altar , and carried her in triumph to Rouen . Proud of his bride ...
... lady still in her teens ; but his rank as a Duke and his fame as a champion of the Cross were fascinations not to be resisted ; so Curthose led the fair Sybil to the altar , and carried her in triumph to Rouen . Proud of his bride ...
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... lady of the town of Ypres with a romantic attachment ; and she , on be- coming aware of what was intended , rushed to his presence , and with tears revealed the plot . Upon becoming aware of his peril , Clito hastily left Ypres with his ...
... lady of the town of Ypres with a romantic attachment ; and she , on be- coming aware of what was intended , rushed to his presence , and with tears revealed the plot . Upon becoming aware of his peril , Clito hastily left Ypres with his ...
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... all caps in the air for a stately and majestic lady , who has been before mentioned as the Empress Maude . Maude , who was Beauclerc's only legitimate daugh- 66 ter , had , when in childhood , been 34 BOY - PRINCES .
... all caps in the air for a stately and majestic lady , who has been before mentioned as the Empress Maude . Maude , who was Beauclerc's only legitimate daugh- 66 ter , had , when in childhood , been 34 BOY - PRINCES .
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Page 285 - Mark, child ! what I say : they will cut off my head ! and perhaps make thee a king ; but mark what I say, thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them ! And thy head too they will cut off at last ! Therefore, I charge thee, do not be made a king by them...
Page 189 - I wis, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 285 - Mark Child what I say, They will cut off My Head, and perhaps make thee a King: But mark what I say, You must not be a King, so long as your Brothers, Charles and James, do live; For they will cut off your Brothers' Heads (when they can catch them) and cut off thy Head too at the last: and therefore I charge you, do not be made a King by them.
Page 189 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park : I found her in her chamber, reading " Phaedon Platonis " in Greek, and that with as much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace.
Page 135 - the relics of Edward V. King of England, and " Richard Duke of York, who, being confined in " the Tower, and there stifled with pillows, were " privately and meanly buried, by order of their ** perfidious uncle, Richard the Usurper. Their " bones, long inquired after and wished for, after " laying 190 years in the rubbish of the stairs (ie " those lately leading to the chapel of the White " Tower), were, on the 17th of July 1674, by un" doubted proofs, discovered, being buried deep in
Page 286 - ... for the laws and liberties of this land, and for maintaining the true Protestant Religion. He bid me read Bishop Andrews' Sermons, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity and Bishop Laud's book against Fisher, which would ground me against Popery.
Page 286 - He bid me tell my mother that his thoughts never strayed from her, and that his love should be the same to the last. Withal he commanded me and my brother to be obedient to her, and bid me send his blessing to the rest of my brothers and sisters, with commendation to all his friends.
Page 287 - ... the Lord would settle his throne upon his son, and that we should all be happier than we could have expected to have been if he had lived ; with many other things, which at present I cannot remember.
Page 287 - He charged her to forgive those, people, but never to trust them ; for they had been most false to him, and to those that gave them power, and he feared also to their own souls. He then urged her to read " Bishop Andrews's Sermons," " Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity...
Page 286 - Another Relation from the Lady Elizabeth's own Hand. "What the king said to me, Jan. 29th, 1648, being the last time I had the happiness to see him: He told me, he was glad I was come; and although he had not time to say much, yet somewhat he had to say to me, which he had not to another, or leave in writing, because he feared their cruelty was such as that they would not have permitted him to write to me. He wished me not to grieve and torment myself for him, for that...