Noble Deeds of Woman: Or, Examples of Female Courage and VirtuePhillips, Sampson and Company, 1850 - 470 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
affection affliction afterwards ANNA SEWARD Anne Boleyn appeared arms army arrived Artemisia attended benevolence brother castle charity Charles Cleombrotus Colonel command Conciergerie conduct Countess courage danger daughter death distress Duchess DUCHESS DE LONGUEVILLE Duchess of Northumberland Duke Eleanor Gwynne emperor enemy escape expressed faithful Farne Islands fate father favor fear feeling female fortitude fortune France friends gave grace Grace Darling hands happy heart heroine honor hope humanity husband Hutchinson immediately Jane Lane Joanna king lady Lavalette lived Lord louis-d'ors Madame Lavergne Madame Roland Mademoiselle Majesty Mardonius misfortunes mother never noble occasion Owthorpe pardon passed person petition poor presence of mind present prince princess prison queen received relief rendered replied resolved safety says sent SHAKSPEARE sister soldiers suffer tears TELESILLA thou tion took Tower troops unfortunate virtue Walter de Manny widow wife woman women young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 429 - you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, mine honor and my blood, even in the dust. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too; and take
Seite 258 - What infinite heart's-ease must kings neglect, That private men enjoy! And what have kings, That privates have not too, save ceremony, — Save general ceremony? And what art thou, thou idol, Ceremony? • • » # • Art thou aught else, but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men ? Wherein thou art less happy, being
Seite 316 - If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye, and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death.
Seite 277 - And, as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honor peereth in the meanest habit. What! is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful f Or, is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye
Seite 129 - 11 go along o'er the wide world with me ; Leave me alone to woo him : let's away, And get our jewels and our wealth together ; Devise the fittest time, and safest way To hide us from pursuit that will be made After my flight: now go we in content; To liberty, and not to banishment.
Seite 429 - scorn that Parma, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm. To the which, rather than any dishonor shall grow by me, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of your virtue in the field. I know that already for your forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and I assure you,
Seite 272 - Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.
Seite 370 - Though perils did Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and Appear in forms more horrid ; yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.
Seite 269 - Henry, ■ had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn ; with which name and place I could willingly have contented myself, if God and your grace had been so pleased ; neither did I at any time so
Seite 363 - Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness ? If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, And hug it in my arms.