Selections from the Writings of Lord Macaulay, Nide 1Longmans, Green, 1876 - 475 sivua |
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... were quartered , under the command of Pem- broke . The Earl of Feversham was a French Protestant , naturalised in England . He commanded the royal army in the West . On the open moor , not far from Chedzoy , 6 Historical Scenes .
... were quartered , under the command of Pem- broke . The Earl of Feversham was a French Protestant , naturalised in England . He commanded the royal army in the West . On the open moor , not far from Chedzoy , 6 Historical Scenes .
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... ; and no man was more amazed than Barillon , who had resided in England during two bloody Barillon was French Ambassador at the English Court . He had proscriptions , and had seen numerous victims , both of 18 Historical Scenes .
... ; and no man was more amazed than Barillon , who had resided in England during two bloody Barillon was French Ambassador at the English Court . He had proscriptions , and had seen numerous victims , both of 18 Historical Scenes .
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... claim the help of the Duke of The man in the iron mask , after being long confined in the French prisons , died in the Bastille in 1703 . Buccleuch , the descendant of the unfortunate leader for whom The Battle of Sedgemoor . 25.
... claim the help of the Duke of The man in the iron mask , after being long confined in the French prisons , died in the Bastille in 1703 . Buccleuch , the descendant of the unfortunate leader for whom The Battle of Sedgemoor . 25.
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... French shores . An innumerable company of gazers blackened the white beach of Kent . Another mighty multitude covered the coast of Picardy . Rapin de Thoyras , 1 who , driven by persecution from his country , had taken service . in the ...
... French shores . An innumerable company of gazers blackened the white beach of Kent . Another mighty multitude covered the coast of Picardy . Rapin de Thoyras , 1 who , driven by persecution from his country , had taken service . in the ...
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... Some of them had repelled the fiery onset of the French on the field of Seneff ; and others had crossed swords with the infidels in the cause of Christendom on that great day when the Landing of the Prince of Orange . 37.
... Some of them had repelled the fiery onset of the French on the field of Seneff ; and others had crossed swords with the infidels in the cause of Christendom on that great day when the Landing of the Prince of Orange . 37.
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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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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...