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... Edward , the black prince , was accomplished , valiant , and amiable . Soon after the battle of Poictiers , in 1356 , he landed at Southwark , and was met by a great concourse of people , of all ranks and stations . His prison- er ...
... Edward , the black prince , was accomplished , valiant , and amiable . Soon after the battle of Poictiers , in 1356 , he landed at Southwark , and was met by a great concourse of people , of all ranks and stations . His prison- er ...
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... Edward VI , the protestant religion prevailed in England , and was favored by the sovereign ; but he died at the early age of 15 , in 1553 ; and the sceptre passed to the hands of his sister Mary , an intolerent catholic , and most ...
... Edward VI , the protestant religion prevailed in England , and was favored by the sovereign ; but he died at the early age of 15 , in 1553 ; and the sceptre passed to the hands of his sister Mary , an intolerent catholic , and most ...
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... EDWARD III . , after the battle of Cressy , in the year 1347 , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege or throw succors into the ...
... EDWARD III . , after the battle of Cressy , in the year 1347 , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege or throw succors into the ...
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... Edward , provided he permitted him to depart with life and liberty . 2. Edward , to avoid the imputation of cruelty , consented to spare the bulk of the plebeians , provided they delivered up to him six of their principal citizens ...
... Edward , provided he permitted him to depart with life and liberty . 2. Edward , to avoid the imputation of cruelty , consented to spare the bulk of the plebeians , provided they delivered up to him six of their principal citizens ...
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... Edward . " Was there no resistance , no commotion among the peo- ple ? " " Not in the least , my lord ; the people would all have perished , rather than have delivered the least of these to your majesty . They are self - delivered ...
... Edward . " Was there no resistance , no commotion among the peo- ple ? " " Not in the least , my lord ; the people would all have perished , rather than have delivered the least of these to your majesty . They are self - delivered ...
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Page 152 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Page 342 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends , — do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world ; to see the stir Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd ; To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 153 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Page 102 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point : This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 320 - As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man...
Page 320 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumor of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more...
Page 140 - They lived unknown, Till Persecution dragg'd them into fame, And chased them up to Heaven. Their ashes flew — No marble tells us whither. With their names No bard embalms and sanctifies his song : And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this.
Page 22 - To some secure and more than mortal height, That liberates and exempts me from them all. It turns submitted to my view, turns round With all its generations ; I behold The tumult, and am still.
Page 361 - The clouds and sunbeams, o'er his eye That once their shades and glory threw, Have left in yonder silent sky No vestige where they flew. The annals of the human race, Their ruins, since the world began, Of him afford no other trace Than this — there lived a man ! James Montgomery, THE MARCH OF TIME.