Stepping Stones to Literature, Libro 8Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 317 páginas |
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... took possession of almost all the flat part of the island , which is now called England , and also of a part of the south of Scotland . But they could not make their way into the high northern mountains of Scotland , where they could ...
... took possession of almost all the flat part of the island , which is now called England , and also of a part of the south of Scotland . But they could not make their way into the high northern mountains of Scotland , where they could ...
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... took place at Rome . So the Roman Emperor sent to the soldiers whom he had maintained in Britain , and ordered that they should immediately return to their own country , and leave the Britons to defend their wall as well as they could ...
... took place at Rome . So the Roman Emperor sent to the soldiers whom he had maintained in Britain , and ordered that they should immediately return to their own country , and leave the Britons to defend their wall as well as they could ...
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... took place at the time between the English and their adherents . 1 ROBERT BRUCE was born July 11 , 1274 , and died June 7 , 1329 . 2 WILLIAM WALLACE was born about 1274 , and was executed at London , August 23 , 1305 . on the one side ...
... took place at the time between the English and their adherents . 1 ROBERT BRUCE was born July 11 , 1274 , and died June 7 , 1329 . 2 WILLIAM WALLACE was born about 1274 , and was executed at London , August 23 , 1305 . on the one side ...
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... took place which , although it rests only on tradition in families of the name of Bruce , is rendered probable by the manners of the time . After receiving the last unpleasing intelligence from Scot- land , Bruce was lying one morning ...
... took place which , although it rests only on tradition in families of the name of Bruce , is rendered probable by the manners of the time . After receiving the last unpleasing intelligence from Scot- land , Bruce was lying one morning ...
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... took themselves to their ships and galleys , concluding their Carrick friends were all in arms , and ready to join with them . They landed on the beach at midnight , where they found their spy Cuthbert alone in waiting for them , with ...
... took themselves to their ships and galleys , concluding their Carrick friends were all in arms , and ready to join with them . They landed on the beach at midnight , where they found their spy Cuthbert alone in waiting for them , with ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbot Achaians Alexandros answer Ariel arms Balclutha battle behold Belshazzar Bingen brother Bruce Buckingham burning fiery furnace called Campeius cardinal Carthon Clessámmor cloud Comyn Cromwell dark daughter dear death duke enemy England English eyes father fear fell Fingal friends Gentleman give grace Guenever hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor horse John of Lorn JOHN RUSKIN JOSEPH ADDISON King Arthur King Henry king's lady land live looked Lord Menelaos mighty Miranda Moina Nebuchadnezzar never night noble Norfolk Pickwick Picts pleasure poem poor pray Priam princes Prospero Queen Katherine Reader Robert Robert the Bruce round Scotland Scots ship Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Modred soul spake speak spear spider STEPPING STONES STONES TO LITERATURE stood Suffolk Surrey sword tell thee thing Thomas Bulfinch thought Trojans unto voice wild Winkle Wolsey words
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Página 68 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Página 187 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Página 184 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Página 113 - He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Página 188 - 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...
Página 55 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Página 109 - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
Página 82 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the . joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Página 196 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris : rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank ! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve
Página 190 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.