The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volumen 2 |
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... king , and he was proclaimed accordingly . The Conqueror , apprised of the resolution of the citizens to maintain London in behalf of the Saxon dynasty , advanced with his forces to Southwark , where the Londoners sallied forth , but ...
... king , and he was proclaimed accordingly . The Conqueror , apprised of the resolution of the citizens to maintain London in behalf of the Saxon dynasty , advanced with his forces to Southwark , where the Londoners sallied forth , but ...
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... king and his successor , Henry I. , as we are informed by Stow , caused a castle to be builded under the said tower ( the White Tower ) , to wit , on the south side towards the Thames , and also encastelated the same round about . This ...
... king and his successor , Henry I. , as we are informed by Stow , caused a castle to be builded under the said tower ( the White Tower ) , to wit , on the south side towards the Thames , and also encastelated the same round about . This ...
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... king constructed on the west side of the Tower were " shaken as it had been with an earthquake and fell down " And yet again , in the year 1241 , the gate and wall having been rebuilt , fell as before . " For which chance , " says Stow ...
... king constructed on the west side of the Tower were " shaken as it had been with an earthquake and fell down " And yet again , in the year 1241 , the gate and wall having been rebuilt , fell as before . " For which chance , " says Stow ...
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... King Edward I. erected a building called the Lions ' Tower , in which the wild beasts were lodged . In the sixteenth of Edward III . there remained only one leopard , but one lion , one lioness , and two cat lions , specified as being ...
... King Edward I. erected a building called the Lions ' Tower , in which the wild beasts were lodged . In the sixteenth of Edward III . there remained only one leopard , but one lion , one lioness , and two cat lions , specified as being ...
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... king descended from his horse Bucephalus , to march at the head of his faithful men , and share truly in all their sufferings . For the same reason he declined drinking the water a soldier brought him in his helmet , because there was ...
... king descended from his horse Bucephalus , to march at the head of his faithful men , and share truly in all their sufferings . For the same reason he declined drinking the water a soldier brought him in his helmet , because there was ...
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Página 450 - Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees.
Página 322 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Página 451 - Report not. No fantastic carvings show The boast of our vain race to change the form Of thy fair works. But thou art here — thou fill'st The solitude. Thou art in the soft winds That run along the summit of these trees In music ; — thou art in the cooler breath That from the inmost darkness of the place Comes, scarcely felt ; the barky trunks, the ground, The fresh moist ground, are all instinct with thee.
Página 152 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills ! — No tears Dim the sweet look that nature wears.
Página 404 - Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonas had; Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out, and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom blasteth, The flower fades, the morning hasteth, The sun sets, the shadow flies, The gourd consumes, and man — he dies!
Página 202 - ... bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung. Then pledged we the wine-cup, and fondly I swore, From my home and my weeping friends never to part ; My little ones kissed me a thousand times o'er, And my wife sobbed aloud in her fulness of heart. Stay, stay with us, — rest, thou art weary and worn...
Página 202 - I flew to the pleasant fields traversed so oft In life's morning march, when my bosom was young ; I heard my own mountain-goats bleating aloft, And knew the sweet strain that the corn-reapers sung.
Página 203 - And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art, That readest this brief psalm, As one by one thy hopes depart, Be resolute and calm. O fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Página 408 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases.
Página 135 - Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.