Stepping Stones to Literature, Bücher 8Silver, Burdett, 1898 - 317 Seiten |
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... person who placed the crown on the head of Robert Bruce . She was imprisoned within the castle of Berwick , in a cage made on purpose . Some Scottish authors have pretended that this cage was hung over the walls with the poor countess ...
... person who placed the crown on the head of Robert Bruce . She was imprisoned within the castle of Berwick , in a cage made on purpose . Some Scottish authors have pretended that this cage was hung over the walls with the poor countess ...
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... means of one of his followers called Cuthbert . This person had directions that , if he should find the countrymen in Carrick disposed to take up arms against the English , he was to make a TALES OF A GRANDFATHER . 21.
... means of one of his followers called Cuthbert . This person had directions that , if he should find the countrymen in Carrick disposed to take up arms against the English , he was to make a TALES OF A GRANDFATHER . 21.
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... person , for what purpose I know not ; but as soon as I saw it burning , I knew that you would come over , thinking it my signal , and therefore I came down to wait for you on the beach , to tell you how the matter stood . " King ...
... person , for what purpose I know not ; but as soon as I saw it burning , I knew that you would come over , thinking it my signal , and therefore I came down to wait for you on the beach , to tell you how the matter stood . " King ...
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... person . Then the king again called to them to stand . 66 Traitors , " said he , " ye have sold my life for English gold , but you shall die if you come one foot nearer to me . " With that he bent the page's bow , and as the old ...
... person . Then the king again called to them to stand . 66 Traitors , " said he , " ye have sold my life for English gold , but you shall die if you come one foot nearer to me . " With that he bent the page's bow , and as the old ...
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... person whose trace he is put upon , he fol- lows him over every step he has taken . At that time these bloodhounds , or sleuth hounds ( so called from slot , or sleut , a word which signifies the scent left by an animal of chase ) ...
... person whose trace he is put upon , he fol- lows him over every step he has taken . At that time these bloodhounds , or sleuth hounds ( so called from slot , or sleut , a word which signifies the scent left by an animal of chase ) ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abbot Achaians Alexandros answer Ariel arms Balclutha battle behold Belshazzar Bingen brother Bruce Buckingham burning fiery furnace called Campeius cardinal Carthon Clessámmor cloud Comyn Cromwell dark daughter dear death duke enemy England English eyes father fear fell Fingal friends Gentleman give grace Guenever hand hath head hear heard heart heaven honor horse John of Lorn JOHN RUSKIN JOSEPH ADDISON King Arthur King Henry king's lady land live looked Lord Menelaos mighty Miranda Moina Nebuchadnezzar never night noble Norfolk Pickwick Picts pleasure poem poor pray Priam princes Prospero Queen Katherine Reader Robert Robert the Bruce round Scotland Scots ship Sir Bedivere Sir Lucan Sir Modred soul spake speak spear spider STEPPING STONES STONES TO LITERATURE stood Suffolk Surrey sword tell thee thing Thomas Bulfinch thought Trojans unto voice wild Winkle Wolsey words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 68 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Seite 187 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Seite 184 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Seite 113 - He heard the deep behind him, and a cry Before. His own thought drove him like a goad. Dry clash'd his harness in the icy caves And barren chasms, and all to left and right The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels — And on a sudden, lo ! the level lake, And the long glories of the winter moon.
Seite 188 - Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown. For the angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed...
Seite 55 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place: The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Seite 109 - Came on the shining levels of the lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery.
Seite 82 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the . joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
Seite 196 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris : rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank ! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve
Seite 190 - ON the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred ninety-two, Did the English fight the French, — woe to France ! And, the thirty-first of May, helter-skelter through the blue, Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue, Came crowding ship on ship to St. Malo on the Ranee, With the English fleet in view.