Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Band 4,Ausgabe 31 -Band 6,Ausgabe 59William Chambers, Robert Chambers William and Robert Chambers, 1845 |
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... fire with burning straw . Roused from their slumbers by the noise and smell of the burning , the English endeavoured to escape ; but they were driven back into their burning houses , or put to death on the spot . Thus perished , either ...
... fire with burning straw . Roused from their slumbers by the noise and smell of the burning , the English endeavoured to escape ; but they were driven back into their burning houses , or put to death on the spot . Thus perished , either ...
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... fire . Edward withdrew into England , leaving Scotland crushed for the meantime in military strength , but still unconquered . Little was done in 1299. Wallace resigned the guardianship , which he could no longer hold except by force ...
... fire . Edward withdrew into England , leaving Scotland crushed for the meantime in military strength , but still unconquered . Little was done in 1299. Wallace resigned the guardianship , which he could no longer hold except by force ...
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... fire , they surrendered , and were suffered to leave the country in safety . Bruce then traversed the south of Scotland , seizing and fortifying towns , and expelling the English who happened to be in his path . Although thus far ...
... fire , they surrendered , and were suffered to leave the country in safety . Bruce then traversed the south of Scotland , seizing and fortifying towns , and expelling the English who happened to be in his path . Although thus far ...
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... fire by a traitor of the name of Osborne , they were obliged to surrender . Nigel Bruce , the youngest of the king's brothers , and of great comeliness , was carried to Berwick , and there beheaded ; the Earl of Atholl was sent to ...
... fire by a traitor of the name of Osborne , they were obliged to surrender . Nigel Bruce , the youngest of the king's brothers , and of great comeliness , was carried to Berwick , and there beheaded ; the Earl of Atholl was sent to ...
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... fire , which had burned off all marks of blood that might have ever been upon it : the key of the chamber was gone from the seat by the door ; but no marks of violence appeared on any of the doors , nor were there any signs of a robbery ...
... fire , which had burned off all marks of blood that might have ever been upon it : the key of the chamber was gone from the seat by the door ; but no marks of violence appeared on any of the doors , nor were there any signs of a robbery ...
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Seite 28 - The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he ! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. " Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — " The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
Seite 27 - Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Seite 5 - gan stir, With a short uneasy motion — Backwards and forwards half her length With a short uneasy motion. Then like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound : It flung the blood into my head, And I fell down in a swound.
Seite 8 - Brown skeletons of leaves that lag My forest-brook along; When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Seite 4 - Thy snawie bosom sunward spread, Thou lifts thy unassuming head In humble guise; But now the share uptears thy bed, And low thou lies ! \ Such is the fate of artless maid, Sweet flow'ret of the rural shade! By love's simplicity betray'd, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Low i
Seite 8 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook...
Seite 2 - In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and Is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there Is a silent Joy at their arrival.
Seite 29 - And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe : For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow.
Seite 28 - He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.
Seite 31 - There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck, And then it seemed a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.