History of Henry the Fourth: King of France and NavarreHarper, 1856 - 335 páginas |
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Admiral Coligni arms army assassin banner Bartholomew battle beautiful blood body Bourbon brother castle Cath Catharine and Charles cause Church Claude command court crown death declared Duke of Alençon Duke of Anjou Duke of Guise Duke of Mayenne edict enemies energetic energy escape estants Europe exclaimed feeble fight foes friends Gabrielle hands heart Henry III Henry of Navarre Henry's honor horrors horse house of Guise house of Valois hundred illustrious immediately Jeanne d'Albret King of France King of Navarre kingdom League Leaguers Lorraine Louvre magnanimity Marguerite marriage metropolis monarch mother murder night noble olics palace Paris party peace peril Pope populace Prince of Condé Prince of Navarre Prot Protestantism Protestants Queen of Navarre ranks received religion religious replied retinue royal scene sent siege soldiers soon spirit streets Sully surrendered sword thou thousand tion troops urged varre victory wounded young prince
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Página 267 - Charge for the golden lilies, — upon them with the lance. A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein. D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay...
Página 266 - The king is come to marshal us, in all his armour drest, And he has bound a snow-white plume upon his gallant crest. He look'd upon his people, and a tear was in his eye; He look'd upon the traitors, and his glance was stern and high. Right graciously he smiled on us, as roll'd from wing to wing, Down all our line, a deafening shout, " God save our lord the king...
Página 266 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amid the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Página 267 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now, — upon them with the lance ! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest ; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Página 158 - it assuredly behoves that church of God in whose name I speak, to endure blows, and not to strike them ; but may it please you also to remember, that it is an anvil which has worn out many hammers.
Página 266 - Hurrah ! the foes are moving. Hark to the mingled din, Of fife, and steed, and trump, and drum, and roaring culverin. The fiery duke is pricking fast across St. Andre's plain, With all the hireling chivalry of Guelders and Almayne.
Página 197 - ... in the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost...
Página 35 - Servetus was not an ordinary heretic ; he was a bold pantheist, and outraged the dogma of all Christian communions by saying that God, in three persons, was a Cerberus, a monster with three heads. 2. He had already been condemned to death by the Catholic doctors at Vienne in Dauphiny. 3. The affair was judged, not by Calvin, but by the magistrates of Geneva ; and if it is objected that his advice must have influenced their decision, it is necessary to recollect that the councils of the other reformed...
Página 136 - Protestant faith. Intelligence would have been diffused ; religion would have been respected ; and in all probability, the horrors of the French Revolution would have been averted. God is an avenger. In the mysterious government which he wields, mysterious only to our feeble vision, he " visits the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, even unto the third and fourth generation." As we see the priests of Paris and of France, during the awful tragedy of the Revolution, massacred in the prisons,...
Página 73 - ... solely through the hatred they bear towards me, because it has pleased God to make use of me to aid His Church. For the present it suffices that I admonish and conjure you, in the name of...