Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1876 - 475 páginas |
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... arms . The Duke had brought with him from the Continent but a scanty supply of pikes and muskets . Many of his followers had , therefore , no other weapons than such as could be fashioned out of the tools which they had used in ...
... arms . The Duke had brought with him from the Continent but a scanty supply of pikes and muskets . Many of his followers had , therefore , no other weapons than such as could be fashioned out of the tools which they had used in ...
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... arms . The power of Beaufort bore some faint resemblance to that of the great barons of the fifteenth century . He was President of Wales and Lord Lieutenant of four English counties . His official tours through the extensive region in ...
... arms . The power of Beaufort bore some faint resemblance to that of the great barons of the fifteenth century . He was President of Wales and Lord Lieutenant of four English counties . His official tours through the extensive region in ...
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... arms for the crown . The gownsmen crowded to give in their names . Christchurch alone furnished near a hundred pikemen and musketeers . Young noblemen and gentlemen commoners acted as officers ; and the eldest son of the Lord Lieutenant ...
... arms for the crown . The gownsmen crowded to give in their names . Christchurch alone furnished near a hundred pikemen and musketeers . Young noblemen and gentlemen commoners acted as officers ; and the eldest son of the Lord Lieutenant ...
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... arms for Charles the First against the Parliament . Neither his years nor his profession had wholly extinguished his martial ardour ; and he probably thought that the appearance of a father of the Protestant Church in the King's camp ...
... arms for Charles the First against the Parliament . Neither his years nor his profession had wholly extinguished his martial ardour ; and he probably thought that the appearance of a father of the Protestant Church in the King's camp ...
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... arms against Popery , and some of whom had probably fought in the great civil war , prayed and preached in red coats and huge jackboots , with swords by their sides . Fer- guson was one of those who harangued . He took for his text the ...
... arms against Popery , and some of whom had probably fought in the great civil war , prayed and preached in red coats and huge jackboots , with swords by their sides . Fer- guson was one of those who harangued . He took for his text the ...
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Página 474 - If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli : Alone I did it. — Boy ! Auf.
Página 369 - While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody hands. He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene: But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try. Nor called the gods with vulgar spite To vindicate his helpless right, But bowed his comely head, Down as upon a bed.
Página 461 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Página 459 - And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho ! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight : ho ! scatter flowers, fair maids : Ho ! gunners, fire a loud salute : ho ! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously — ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride.
Página 462 - 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, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme, to-day, the helmet of Navarre.
Página 462 - And we cried unto the living God, who rules the fate of war, To fight for his own holy name, and Henry of Navarre.
Página 460 - Till the proud peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales, Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light...
Página 459 - The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves : The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves: O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew: He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse had met on Clifton down...
Página 458 - It was about the lovely close of a warm summer day, There came a gallant merchant-ship full sail to Plymouth Bay ; Her crew had seen Castile's black fleet, beyond Aurigny's Isle, At earliest twilight, on the waves lie heaving many a mile. At sunrise she escaped their van, by God's especial grace; And the tall Pinta, till the noon, had held her close in chase.
Página 461 - With all its priest-led citizens, and all its rebel peers, And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land; And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand: And, as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...