The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Band 7Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton J.B. Millet, 1900 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adams afterwards Agesilaus Alemanni Anne Boleyn appointed arms army Artaxerxes Athenians Aurelian battle became Belisarius Blücher British brother Burr Calhoun called character Chosroes Christian Church Clay command Constantine court crown Cyrus Dante daughter death declared defeated Domremy Duke Earl elected emperor empire enemy England English entered eyes father favor force France French Galerius gave Giotto glory Greeks Guzman heart Henry Henry VIII Henry's Heraclius Hofer honor horse Jackson Joan Katharine king king's kingdom labarum land Lord Lysimachus Madame de Pompadour Maid March married Maxentius military never noble Orleans Palmyra party peace Persian President prince Ptolemy queen Ravenna received reign retired retreat returned Richard Roman Rome says Semiramis Senate sent soldiers soon sovereign Spain Sparta sword thou throne tion Tissaphernes took treaty troops Union victory Vitiges voice Webster Wellington wife Wolsey Xenophon York Zenobia
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 392 - ... may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured,...
Seite 314 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew...
Seite 267 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly...
Seite 222 - Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold, For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.
Seite 217 - And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by A shadow like an Angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood; and he shriek'd out aloud, 'Clarence is come, — false, fleeting, perjur'd Clarence, That stabb'd me in the field by Tewkesbury; Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!
Seite 315 - He is gone who seem'd so great. — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.
Seite 35 - ... to meet her. She might not prefigure the very manner of her death ; she saw not in vision, perhaps, the aerial altitude of the fiery scaffold, the spectators without end on every road pouring into Rouen as to a coronation, the surging smoke, the volleying flames, the hostile faces all around, the pitying eye that lurked but here and there, until nature and imperishable truth broke loose from artificial restraints; — these might not be apparent through the mists of the hurrying future. But the...
Seite 266 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Seite 314 - Europe-shadowing wings, And barking for the thrones of kings ; Till one that sought but Duty's iron crown On that loud Sabbath shook the spoiler down ; A day of onsets of despair ! Dash'd on every rocky square Their surging charges foam'd themselves away ; Last, the Prussian trumpet blew ; Thro' the long-tormented air Heaven flashed a sudden jubilant ray And down we swept and charged and overthrew.
Seite 312 - Among the wise and the bold. Let the bell be toll'd : And a reverent people behold The towering car, the sable steeds : Bright let it...