Britain's Historical Drama: A Series of National Tragedies, Intended to Illustrate the Manners, Customs, and Religious Institutions of Different Early Eras in BritainS. Maunder, 1832 - 547 หน้า |
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ALLECTUS altar Ambrosius amid ancient ARCH-DRUID ARIXINA arms ARTHUR banners bards battle beauty behold blood bosom brave bright Britain British Britons brows Cæsar camp captive CARAUSIUS CARVILIUS CASSFELYN CASWALLON CERDIC chief CLAUDIA clouds crown CYMBALINE dare dark death deed deep Dioclesian dreadful Druids DUNGARTH DUNSTAN EDWIN ELGIVA Enter ERIC EWYLLEN Exeunt Exit fame fierce fire flames fling gallant Gaul glory gods GUNHILDA GUTHLAC GWENYFAR halls harp hath heart heaven holy honour IMOGENIA isle Julius Cæsar KENRICK king LAVINIA lord MALWINA MERIDOC mighty Montcillius Mouric night noble o'er Odin ORIUNA palace PLEBEIAN pomp priest prince proud queen revenge ROBBER RODOMOND ROGVALDER Roman Rome rush sacred Saxon SCENE shalt shield shores shout shrieks slave Soldiers soul spirit splendours storm sweet sword tempest temple Teutates thee thine thou art thou hast throne TIBERIUS VORTIMER Wareham warriors wild yonder
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หน้า 132 - What character does she bear ?" " A very good one, only the neighbours reflect on her because she married the day after her husband was buried.
หน้า 257 - The truth seems to be, that Alfred was the first monarch of the Anglo-Saxons, but Athelstan was the first monarch of England. The Danish sovereigns, to whose colonies Alfred chose or was compelled to yield Northumbria and East Anglia, divided the island with him ; therefore, though he first reigned monarch over the Anglo-Saxons from the utter destruction of the octarchy, it was not until Athelstan completely subjugated the Anglo-Danish power, that the monarchy of England arose.
หน้า 413 - Miracles, visions, necromancy, dreams, and other preternatural events, are exploded now even from romances. That was not the case when our author wrote ; much less when the story itself is supposed to have happened. Belief in every kind of prodigy was so established in those dark ages, that an author would not be faithful to the manners of the times who should omit all mention of them. He is not bound to believe them himself, but he must represent his actors as believing them.
หน้า 132 - ... it up in the corner of his handkerchief; he then demanded of the grave-digger, whether he knew whose skull that was ? He said he did, very well ; declaring it was a man's who kept a brandy-shop, an honest drunken fellow, who one night taking two quarts of that comfortable creature, was found dead in his bed the next morning : Had he a wife ? said the doctor.
หน้า 409 - And young men round about with maides doe daunce in every streete, With garlands wrought of motherwort, or else with vervain sweete, And many other flowres faire, with violets in their handes, Whereas they all do fondly thinke, that whosoever standes, And thorow the flowres beholdes the flame, his eyes shall feel no paine.
หน้า 540 - how to perform eight exercises — I fight with courage ; I keep a firm seat on horseback ; I am skilled in swimming; I glide along the ice on skates ; I excel in darting the lance ; I am dexterous at the oar ; and yet a Russian maid disdains me.
หน้า x - He did not hesitate to affirm that 'from the beginning of the eighth century to the end of the eleventh, she [England] appears — not even excluding a comparison with the Eastern Empire — to have been the most truly civilized country on the Globe'.
หน้า 137 - I may call it an oracular stone, though it goes by the name of the great cannon. It rests upon a bed of rock, where a road plainly appears to have been made leading to the hole which, at the entrance, is three feet wide, six feet deep, and about three feet, six inches high. Within this aperture on the right hand is a round hole, two feet diameter, perforated quite through the rock, sixteen feet, and running from south to north. In the abovementioned aperture a man might...
หน้า 392 - His fleets rode triumphant in the channel, commanded the mouths of the Seine and of the Rhine, ravaged the coasts of the ocean, and diffused beyond the columns of Hercules the terror of his name.
หน้า 262 - Batayle," written about that time, which professedly treats upon the duties and exercises necessary to constitute a good soldier. Use eek the cast of stone, with slynge or honde : It falleth ofte, yf other shot there none is, Men harneysed in steel may not withstonde, The multitude and mighty cast of stonys ; And stonys in effecte, are every where, And slynges are not noyous for to beare.