Historical Parallels, 1. ciltC. Knight, 1831 |
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Aristomenes armour arms army Athenians Athens attack Attica battle Bertrand Boeotia bridge brother Caligula called Cambyses cause cavalry charge Christian command countrymen Crassus Croesus crysten Darius death Duke Emperor empire enemy English Eurybiades evil favour fear fell fight fleet force fortune fought French Ganellon gave Grecian Greece Greeks grete ground hand head heard hero Herodotus Hipparchus Hippias honour horse king knight kyng Lacedæmonians land Lord Lorenzo Lynsay master Medici Megacles Messenians Miltiades moche never noble Parthians passage passed Pausanias Pazzi Persian Persian war person Pisistratus possession prince prisoners Publius Crassus ranks retreat returned Rolland Romans Salamis Saracens sarasyns sayd Scythians sent shewed ships slain soldiers Spartans spirit Surena sword thee Themistocles Theseus thou thousand tion took triremes troops unto valour vessels victory Wallace whan whole whych wounded wyth Xerxes
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Sayfa 139 - Laud be to God ! — even there my life must end. It hath been prophesied to me many years, I should not die but in Jerusalem ; Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land. — But bear me to that chamber ; there I'll lie ; In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
Sayfa 127 - Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Sayfa 127 - This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of the Most High, which is come upon my lord the king. That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field...
Sayfa 127 - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. 30 The king spake, and said, is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
Sayfa 135 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Sayfa 23 - ... every powerful man made his castles, and held them against him ; and they filled the land full of castles. They cruelly oppressed the wretched men of the land with castle-works. When the castles were made they filled them with devils and evil men.
Sayfa 132 - Gnomes ! o'er the waste you led your myriad powers, Climb'd on the whirls, and aimed the flinty showers ! Onward resistless rolls the infuriate surge, Clouds follow clouds, and mountains mountains urge ; Wave over wave the driving desert swims, Bursts o'er their heads, inhumes their struggling limbs ; Man mounts on man, on camels camels rush, Hosts march o'er hosts, and nations nations crush, — Wheeling in air the winged islands fall, And one great...
Sayfa 284 - Three hundred bannered knights, it was a gallant show. Three hundred Moors they killed, a man with every blow ; When they wheeled and turned, as many more lay slain; You might see them raise their lances and level them again. There you might see the breastplates how they were cleft in twain, And many a Moorish shield lie shattered on the plain, The pennons that were white marked with a crimson stain, The horses running wild whose riders had been slain.
Sayfa 173 - When all was prepared, and the clergyman had left the prisoner on his knees, in momentary expectation of his fate, and the firing party were looking with intense attention for the signal, Colonel Campbell put his hand into his pocket for the reprieve, and in pulling out the packet, the white handkerchief accompanied it, and catching the eyes of the party, they fired, and the unfortunate prisoner was snot dead.
Sayfa 192 - ... or standardbearer, who was chosen every two months. Under this establishment the citizens imagined they enjoyed the full exercise of their liberties ; but such was the power of the Medici that they generally either assumed to themselves the first offices of the state, or nominated such persons as they thought proper to those employments. In this, however, they paid great respect to popular opinion. That opposition of interests so generally apparent between the people and their rulers, was at...