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... success , but with general failure , this resistance was ' protracted and fierce . But it was in vain . The advance of the tide was slow but continuous , sometimes arrested but never retreating ; bit by bit the land was covered ...
... success , but with general failure , this resistance was ' protracted and fierce . But it was in vain . The advance of the tide was slow but continuous , sometimes arrested but never retreating ; bit by bit the land was covered ...
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... condition , more important victories might at length attend his valour . 8. When Alfred observed ' symptoms of successful resist- ance in his subjects , he left his retreat ; 875 A.D. ] 35 KING ALFRED AND THE DANES .
... condition , more important victories might at length attend his valour . 8. When Alfred observed ' symptoms of successful resist- ance in his subjects , he left his retreat ; 875 A.D. ] 35 KING ALFRED AND THE DANES .
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... success . For this purpose he entered their camp under the disguise of a harper , and passed unsuspected through every quarter . He so entertained them with his music and facetious humours , that he met with a welcome reception , and ...
... success . For this purpose he entered their camp under the disguise of a harper , and passed unsuspected through every quarter . He so entertained them with his music and facetious humours , that he met with a welcome reception , and ...
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... success of this expedient seemed to correspond to Alfred's hopes : the greater part of the Danes settled peaceably in their new quarters ; some smaller 880 bodies of the same nation , which were dispersed in Mercia , were distributed ...
... success of this expedient seemed to correspond to Alfred's hopes : the greater part of the Danes settled peaceably in their new quarters ; some smaller 880 bodies of the same nation , which were dispersed in Mercia , were distributed ...
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... success , the abbot and the Norman commenced the expedition with a numerous body of cavalry . But nothing could elude the vigilance of Hereward . As Tailbois entered one side of a thick wood , the chieftain issued from the other ...
... success , the abbot and the Norman commenced the expedition with a numerous body of cavalry . But nothing could elude the vigilance of Hereward . As Tailbois entered one side of a thick wood , the chieftain issued from the other ...
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Alfred Anselm Archbishop arms army attack Augustine Bæda barons battle became Becket Benedict Biscop bishops body Britain Britons broke Cabul Calais called Canterbury Christian Church coast command conquest Crecy crown Danes death died Duke Duke of Burgundy Earl Edward Edward the Confessor enemy English eyes Farnese father fell Fitzurse Flanders fleet force France French Gaul Guthrum hand Harold Hastings heart Henry Hereward History of England Holy House island Jutes Kent King king's kingdom kiss thee knights land London Long Parliament Lord Darcy Lord Raglan Malet marched Mary ment monks nation Norman Normandy Northumbria oath Parliament passed persons Philip Picts plunder Pope Prince prisoners Queen reform reign Richard rode Roman Rome royal Saladin Saracens Saxons Scotland Scots sent ships siege of Acre soldiers Spain sword thine Thomas Becket thou thousand throne tion took town victory William words Wulfnoth
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Página 163 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Página 164 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, — alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Página 164 - Cameron's gathering' rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Página 163 - But hark! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
Página 162 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Página 163 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 94 - FAIR stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; But putting to the main, At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.
Página 94 - Spanish yew so strong, Arrows a cloth-yard long, That like to serpents stung, Piercing the weather; None from his fellow starts, But playing manly parts, And like true English hearts, Stuck close together. When down their bows they threw, And forth their bilboes...
Página 151 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Página 159 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.