Tales of Our Great Families, Volumen 2Hurst and Blackett, 1877 |
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... Courtenay BEYO enjoys a proud pre - eminence among the most noble and ancient of the historic families , both of England and of France . The chapter of his " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " which Gibbon devotes to a brief outline ...
... Courtenay BEYO enjoys a proud pre - eminence among the most noble and ancient of the historic families , both of England and of France . The chapter of his " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " which Gibbon devotes to a brief outline ...
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... Courtenay , succeeded to the title , which at that time was really a territorial dignity ; and a dozen or more Earls of Devonshire of the name of Cour- tenay have since flourished in a period of four hundred years . Gibbon adds : " The ...
... Courtenay , succeeded to the title , which at that time was really a territorial dignity ; and a dozen or more Earls of Devonshire of the name of Cour- tenay have since flourished in a period of four hundred years . Gibbon adds : " The ...
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... By some this epitaph is assigned to a Rivers , Earl of Devon ; but the English denotes the fifteenth rather than the thirteenth century . Edwards and Henries ; their names are conspi- cuous in EPISODE IN THE HOUSE OF COURTENAY . 247.
... By some this epitaph is assigned to a Rivers , Earl of Devon ; but the English denotes the fifteenth rather than the thirteenth century . Edwards and Henries ; their names are conspi- cuous in EPISODE IN THE HOUSE OF COURTENAY . 247.
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... Courtenay ; their son who was created Marquis of Exeter , enjoyed the favour of his cousin Henry VIII . , and in the camp of Cloth of Gold he broke a lance against the French monarch . But the favour of Henry was the prelude of dis ...
... Courtenay ; their son who was created Marquis of Exeter , enjoyed the favour of his cousin Henry VIII . , and in the camp of Cloth of Gold he broke a lance against the French monarch . But the favour of Henry was the prelude of dis ...
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... Courtenay annals , the most splendid era is likewise the most unfortu- nate ; nor can an opulent peer of Britain be in- clined to envy the emperors of Constantinople ... Courtenay in more recent days . EPISODE IN THE HOUSE OF COURTENAY . 249.
... Courtenay annals , the most splendid era is likewise the most unfortu- nate ; nor can an opulent peer of Britain be in- clined to envy the emperors of Constantinople ... Courtenay in more recent days . EPISODE IN THE HOUSE OF COURTENAY . 249.
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Página 226 - Oh blameless Bethel ! to relieve thy breast ? When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by ? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall ? But still this world (so fitted for the knave) Contents us not.
Página 247 - After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb: "What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Página 26 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Página 108 - Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage ; Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage.
Página 27 - His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty, which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, 200 Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Página 51 - Scotland can witness be I have not any captain more Of such account as he." Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...