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... appeared that Edith had never taken monastic vows , though she had sometimes worn the veil , by way of protection , in days when the Norman adventurers , flushed with recent success , paid little respect to female honour . The evidence ...
... appeared that Edith had never taken monastic vows , though she had sometimes worn the veil , by way of protection , in days when the Norman adventurers , flushed with recent success , paid little respect to female honour . The evidence ...
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... appeared , nor have any of his company , " was the mournful reply . " Woe is me ! " exclaimed Fitzstephen . And he deliberately plunged beneath the waves . The night was long , and the weather was cold , and weary grew the two survivors ...
... appeared , nor have any of his company , " was the mournful reply . " Woe is me ! " exclaimed Fitzstephen . And he deliberately plunged beneath the waves . The night was long , and the weather was cold , and weary grew the two survivors ...
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... appeared most happy while showing her in public , and marking the admiration she excited . But Curthose's domestic felicity was of short dura- tion . Sybil , in 1102 , breathed her last , leaving an infant son , born at Rouen , named ...
... appeared most happy while showing her in public , and marking the admiration she excited . But Curthose's domestic felicity was of short dura- tion . Sybil , in 1102 , breathed her last , leaving an infant son , born at Rouen , named ...
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... appeared happy in comparison with the son and heir of the Conqueror . His plight was more than flesh and blood could bear ; so he seized a horse , and rode off at a pace which seemed to defy pursuit . But Curthose found that this was ...
... appeared happy in comparison with the son and heir of the Conqueror . His plight was more than flesh and blood could bear ; so he seized a horse , and rode off at a pace which seemed to defy pursuit . But Curthose found that this was ...
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... appeared to Henry in his sleep one night when on his voyage to Normandy , and so frightened him that he thrice sprang from his bed and grasped his weapon . The prospects of Clito were daily brightening , when suddenly Beauclerc put ...
... appeared to Henry in his sleep one night when on his voyage to Normandy , and so frightened him that he thrice sprang from his bed and grasped his weapon . The prospects of Clito were daily brightening , when suddenly Beauclerc put ...
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Abbey Anjou appeared arms army Arthur barons battle Beauclerc beauty became birth blood bride Britanny brother Burgundy captive Carlos Castle caused Charles Clito court crown Curthose daughter Dauphin death Duchess Duke of Gloucester Duke of York Earl Earl of Warwick Edward eldest Elizabeth Elizabeth Woodville Emperor English ere long Eustace exclaimed expressed eyes fate father favour fortune French gave Gloucester hand head heart heir Henry Henry of Navarre hero honour Huguenots James John Katherine de Medici King of England King of France King of Rome King's knights Lady London Lord Louis Madame Margaret Marie Antoinette marriage Mary Matilda of Boulogne monarch mother Napoleon Navarre nephew never nobles Normandy Orleans palace Paris passed Philip Plantagenet popular present Prince of Condé Prince of Wales Prince's Princess Queen reign Richard Rothsay royal boy Scots Scottish sent sister Somerset soon thither throne took Tower Tudor Valois victory Warwick youth
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Page 279 - 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 183 - 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 279 - 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 183 - 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 134 - 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 280 - ... 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 280 - 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 281 - ... 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 281 - 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 280 - 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...