A Book of English Prose, Character and Incident 1387-1649Methuen and Company, 1905 - 395 σελίδες |
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... horsemen of the Britons and their essedaries fought sharply with the horsemen of the Romans as they were on their journey : but the Romans were victors , and chased them into the woods and mountains . But after that the Romans had slain ...
... horsemen of the Britons and their essedaries fought sharply with the horsemen of the Romans as they were on their journey : but the Romans were victors , and chased them into the woods and mountains . But after that the Romans had slain ...
Σελίδα 53
... horsemen could not fight without great peril , because their enemies would oftentimes flee for the nonce . And when they had moved by fraud the Romans a good distance from the legions , then they leapt out of their chariots and began a ...
... horsemen could not fight without great peril , because their enemies would oftentimes flee for the nonce . And when they had moved by fraud the Romans a good distance from the legions , then they leapt out of their chariots and began a ...
Σελίδα 54
... horsemen , were compelled to leave the banks and to flee away . Then Cassevelanus , as before , showed when he had lost all his hope that he had to make war , and also had put from him his great army , and kept all only with him four ...
... horsemen , were compelled to leave the banks and to flee away . Then Cassevelanus , as before , showed when he had lost all his hope that he had to make war , and also had put from him his great army , and kept all only with him four ...
Σελίδα 55
... horsemen . And by reason of the fear that they put the Romans in , they letted them to stray any more abroad , wherefore it came to this point , that Caesar would suffer his people to go no further on foraging than the host of the ...
... horsemen . And by reason of the fear that they put the Romans in , they letted them to stray any more abroad , wherefore it came to this point , that Caesar would suffer his people to go no further on foraging than the host of the ...
Σελίδα 101
... horsemen to be sent forth in all parts to see if they could apprehend him in any place , and bring him to him again , and they should have great rewards therefor . But yet they could get no kind of trial1 of him , until at the last ...
... horsemen to be sent forth in all parts to see if they could apprehend him in any place , and bring him to him again , and they should have great rewards therefor . But yet they could get no kind of trial1 of him , until at the last ...
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Σελίδα 343 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature...
Σελίδα 343 - ... on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. "Sufflaminandus erat," as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so, too! Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,...
Σελίδα 11 - JC Cox and A. Harvey. Second Edition. ENGLISH COSTUME. From Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. George Clinch. ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE. Abbot Gasquet. Fourth Edition. ENGLISH SEALS. J. Harvey Bloom. FOLK-LORE AS AN HISTORICAL SCIENCE. Sir GL Gomme. GiLDS AND COMPANIES OF LONDON, THE. George Unwin. •HERMITS AND ANCHORITES OF ENGLAND.
Σελίδα 362 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle muing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Σελίδα 361 - The adversary again applauds, and waits the hour. When they have branched themselves out, saith he, small enough into parties and partitions, then will be our time.
Σελίδα 362 - ... the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.
Σελίδα 174 - ... commanded the master gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship; that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours...
Σελίδα 174 - ... as she could never be removed out of the place. And as the matter was thus in dispute, and Sir Richard refusing to hearken to any of those reasons; the master of the Revenge (while the Captain won unto him the greater party) was convoyed aboard the General Don Alfonso Bassan.
Σελίδα 171 - Philip being in the wind of him, and coming towards him, becalmed his sails in such sort, as the ship could neither make way, nor feel the helm: so huge and high carged was the Spanish ship, being of a thousand and five hundred tons; who after laid the Revenge aboard.
Σελίδα 3 - A GARLAND OF COUNTRY SONG: English Folk Songs with their Traditional Melodies. Collected and arranged by S. BARING-GOULD and HF SHEPPARD. Demy 4/0. 6s. SONGS OF THE WEST: Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall. Collected from the Mouths of the People. ByS. BARING-GOULD, MA,and H.