The Patrician, Volume 5John Burke, Bernard Burke E. Churton, 1848 - Genealogy |
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... Edward . England was , at this period , the seat of one of the noblest knights who ever bestrode a steed — the illustrious Black Prince , Edward's immor- tal son . Duguesclin took part in many of the chivalrous encounters that then ...
... Edward . England was , at this period , the seat of one of the noblest knights who ever bestrode a steed — the illustrious Black Prince , Edward's immor- tal son . Duguesclin took part in many of the chivalrous encounters that then ...
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... Edward magnanimously spurned . But the English king had not the generosity to treat his prisoner with clemency : Duguesclin being con- ducted to a prison in Bordeaux , while Henry was constrained to seek refuge in France . H As a matter ...
... Edward magnanimously spurned . But the English king had not the generosity to treat his prisoner with clemency : Duguesclin being con- ducted to a prison in Bordeaux , while Henry was constrained to seek refuge in France . H As a matter ...
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... Edward , after a short parley , consenting to his liberation on payment of a hundred francs ; but some disparaging words added on the smallness of the ransom , caused Duguesclin himself to insist that it should be raised to seventy ...
... Edward , after a short parley , consenting to his liberation on payment of a hundred francs ; but some disparaging words added on the smallness of the ransom , caused Duguesclin himself to insist that it should be raised to seventy ...
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... Edward the Fourth , previous to the fatal battle of Tewksbury : indeed , some fighting took place in the vicinity , and several of Edward's army were taken prisoners . A few Roman coins have been found near . Descending the hill , a ...
... Edward the Fourth , previous to the fatal battle of Tewksbury : indeed , some fighting took place in the vicinity , and several of Edward's army were taken prisoners . A few Roman coins have been found near . Descending the hill , a ...
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... Edward Stephens , Esq . , of Eastington . The family of Stephens is of ancient standing in Gloucestershire , having been settled there more than 700 years . Ralph and William , two brothers , were jointly High - Sheriffs in the reign of ...
... Edward Stephens , Esq . , of Eastington . The family of Stephens is of ancient standing in Gloucestershire , having been settled there more than 700 years . Ralph and William , two brothers , were jointly High - Sheriffs in the reign of ...
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Page 6 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 523 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 4 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 3 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Page 3 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Page 2 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 4 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 248 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 147 - Kisses and welcomings upon the air, Which they make breezy with affectionate gestures. From all the towers rings out the merry peal, The joyous vespers of a bloody day. 0 happy man, O fortunate ! for whom The well-known door, the faithful arms are open, The faithful tender arms with mute embracing.
Page 70 - Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...