 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 522 Seiten
...dark reality of the horrors of the period. The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronic!' of the cruelties exercised in the reign of King Stephen...when their passions were inflamed. "They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1901 - 1182 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle...exercised in the reign of King Stephen by the great harons and lords of castles, who were at Normans, affords a strong proof of the excesses of which they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 460 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. •The description given by the author of the Saxon...when their passions were inflamed. " They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles ; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 468 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. 'The description given by the author of the Saxon...when their passions were inflamed. "They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles ; and when they were built, they Ailed them with wicked... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 456 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. 'The description given by the author of the Saxon...a strong proof of the excesses of which they were »pable when their passions were inflamed. " They grievously oppressed the poor people by building... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 590 Seiten
...devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle...affords a strong proof of the excesses of which they 20 geons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads." But it would be cruel to put the reader to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1904 - 592 Seiten
...devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle...affords a strong proof of the excesses of which they 20 geons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads." But it would be cruel to put the reader to the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 568 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle...when their passions were inflamed. "They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built they filled them with wicked... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1903 - 664 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle...when their passions were inflamed. " They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1913 - 760 Seiten
...historians, to prove that fiction itself can hardly reach the dark reality of the horrors of the period. The description given by the author of the Saxon -Chronicle...when their passions were inflamed. 'They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked... | |
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The description given by the author of the Saxon Chronicle , of the cruelties exercised in the reign of King Stephen by the great barons and lords of castles, who were all -Normans, affords a strong proof of the excesses of which they were capable when... 
