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... body was laid out in a coffin of gold , and carried by a procession of the whole army , headed by his son Constans , to Constantinople . For three months it lay there in state in the palace , lights burning round , and guards watching ...
... body was laid out in a coffin of gold , and carried by a procession of the whole army , headed by his son Constans , to Constantinople . For three months it lay there in state in the palace , lights burning round , and guards watching ...
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... bodies cast out . was also usual for the audience to express their approval. NOTES . Constantine . - Was born in February , 272 , in Dardania , now part of Southern Austria . Philip . - King of Macedon , father of Alexander the Great ...
... bodies cast out . was also usual for the audience to express their approval. NOTES . Constantine . - Was born in February , 272 , in Dardania , now part of Southern Austria . Philip . - King of Macedon , father of Alexander the Great ...
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... went with crucifix , burning tapers , and incense , to pray over the abandoned and dishonoured body , for the peace of the soul . The Archbishop C • of Rouen ordained that the king should be interred SIXTH ENGLISH READER . 17.
... went with crucifix , burning tapers , and incense , to pray over the abandoned and dishonoured body , for the peace of the soul . The Archbishop C • of Rouen ordained that the king should be interred SIXTH ENGLISH READER . 17.
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... body to the banks of the Seine , and thence to the city of Caen . NOTES . - 1086. - In the twentieth year after the battle of Hastings . William was now fifty - nine years old ( born , 1027 ) . Philip .- " The Fair , " died 1108 ...
... body to the banks of the Seine , and thence to the city of Caen . NOTES . - 1086. - In the twentieth year after the battle of Hastings . William was now fifty - nine years old ( born , 1027 ) . Philip .- " The Fair , " died 1108 ...
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... body , and makes old wounds break out afresh , and indeed rots the man away while living . It is now un- known in the navy . Pensioners , & c.- The ships had been manned in great part by invalid old soldiers and the like . Two men in ...
... body , and makes old wounds break out afresh , and indeed rots the man away while living . It is now un- known in the navy . Pensioners , & c.- The ships had been manned in great part by invalid old soldiers and the like . Two men in ...
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Page 321 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 325 - But here's a parchment, with the seal of Caesar, I found it in his closet, 't is his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 322 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; that, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 343 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown . For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Page 257 - As tho' to breathe were life ! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains ; but every hour is saved From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things : and vile it were For some three suns to store .and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Page 267 - Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue ? Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame Hesperus with the host of Heaven came And, lo ! creation widened in man's view.
Page 181 - So good, so noble, and so true a master ? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 316 - I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, Who else must be let blood, who else is rank : If I myself, there is no hour so fit As Caesar's death's hour ; nor no instrument Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich With the most noble blood of all this world.
Page 326 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 324 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for him? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...