The Great Triumphs of Great MenJames Mason William P. Nimmo, 1875 - 624 páginas |
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... land on which I sit is mine , and thou art a part of my dominion ; therefore rise not , but obey my commands , nor presume to wet the edge of my royal robe . ' He sat for some time silent , contrary to the English custom , the spies ...
... land on which I sit is mine , and thou art a part of my dominion ; therefore rise not , but obey my commands , nor presume to wet the edge of my royal robe . ' He sat for some time silent , contrary to the English custom , the spies ...
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... land , with promise that ere a month you shall be lord over it . ' ' I accept it , ' was the duke's reply ; and may God aid the right ! ' Further to refresh the spirits of his army , and remove any sinister impressions , the duke ...
... land , with promise that ere a month you shall be lord over it . ' ' I accept it , ' was the duke's reply ; and may God aid the right ! ' Further to refresh the spirits of his army , and remove any sinister impressions , the duke ...
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... land , and his brother Sir Alex- ander de Lindsay , Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell , Sir Richard Lauder , and Wishart , Bishop of of Glasgow . But , unfortunately , they brought more splendour than real spirit to the cause . Wallace ...
... land , and his brother Sir Alex- ander de Lindsay , Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell , Sir Richard Lauder , and Wishart , Bishop of of Glasgow . But , unfortunately , they brought more splendour than real spirit to the cause . Wallace ...
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... land ; and for upwards of three weeks , the whole of that wide tract of country from Cocker- mouth and Carlisle to the gates of Newcastle , was wasted with all the fury of revenge , licence , and rapacity . Wallace now assumed the title ...
... land ; and for upwards of three weeks , the whole of that wide tract of country from Cocker- mouth and Carlisle to the gates of Newcastle , was wasted with all the fury of revenge , licence , and rapacity . Wallace now assumed the title ...
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... land . Thus cruelly perished a man whom Edward could never subdue , and whose only crime was an invincible attachment to free- dom and independence . Who would not fight to the bitter end for such a noble purpose ? Those ills that ...
... land . Thus cruelly perished a man whom Edward could never subdue , and whose only crime was an invincible attachment to free- dom and independence . Who would not fight to the bitter end for such a noble purpose ? Those ills that ...
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Página 155 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 95 - These abominable principles, and this more abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive indignation.
Página 95 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms : Never, never, never...
Página 158 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Página 211 - ... berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 96 - My Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say more; but my feelings and indignation were too strong- to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my bed, nor reposed my head on my pillow, without giving this vent to my eternal abhorrence of such preposterous and enormous principles.
Página 64 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Página 197 - The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables.
Página 117 - ... their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder.
Página 169 - The Psalms of David imitated in the language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian state and worship.