Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, 1876 - 475 páginas |
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... was not for him to lament and supplicate . His reason , too , should have told him that lamentation and supplication would be unavailing . He had C done that which could never be forgiven . He was The Battle of Sedgemoor . 17.
... was not for him to lament and supplicate . His reason , too , should have told him that lamentation and supplication would be unavailing . He had C done that which could never be forgiven . He was The Battle of Sedgemoor . 17.
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... reason , to suspect Dartmouth of trea- chery , or at least of slackness . Armand de Schomberg , Marshal of France , and a Protestant , had sacrificed his career in his native country to his religion , and had taken service under William ...
... reason , to suspect Dartmouth of trea- chery , or at least of slackness . Armand de Schomberg , Marshal of France , and a Protestant , had sacrificed his career in his native country to his religion , and had taken service under William ...
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... reason to believe that , had his life been prolonged one fortnight , his history would have been the history of Montrose retold . * * * * Since the splendour of the House of Argyle had been eclipsed , no Gaelic chief could vie in power ...
... reason to believe that , had his life been prolonged one fortnight , his history would have been the history of Montrose retold . * * * * Since the splendour of the House of Argyle had been eclipsed , no Gaelic chief could vie in power ...
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... reason , claim to be considered as the representative of the absent chief . Lord Murray , the Mar- quess's eldest son , who was married to a daughter of the Duke of Hamilton , declared for King William . Stewart of Ballenach , the ...
... reason , claim to be considered as the representative of the absent chief . Lord Murray , the Mar- quess's eldest son , who was married to a daughter of the Duke of Hamilton , declared for King William . Stewart of Ballenach , the ...
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... reason , on both sides . Ballenach , at the head of a body of vassals who considered him as the representative of the Marquess , occupied Blair Castle . Murray , with twelve hundred followers , appeared before the walls , and demanded ...
... reason , on both sides . Ballenach , at the head of a body of vassals who considered him as the representative of the Marquess , occupied Blair Castle . Murray , with twelve hundred followers , appeared before the walls , and demanded ...
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Admiral appeared arms army battle battle of Sedgemoor Blair Castle brave called character chief Church Clive command courage court crowd crown danger death Duke Dundee eloquence eminent enemy English Enniskillen Essay favour fight fire fleet France Frances Burney Frederic French friends gentlemen hand Hastings head heart Highland History of England honour horse House of Commons human hundred Irish Irish army Jacobite James King letters lived London Londonderry looked Lord Lord Byron Lough Foyle Macaulay manner ment mind minister Miss Burney Monmouth Nabob nation never noble officers Omichund palace Parliament passed persons Pitt pleasure poet political Prince Prince of Orange Puritan Pusignan Queen ranks regiments religion Richard Hamilton royal scarcely seemed seen sent soldiers soon spirit strong thought thousand tion took town troops truth victory Voltaire Whig whole William writer
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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...