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Pagina 2
... Saxon ancestors usually took their principal meal , just as the family and serving - folk of the Saxon franklin * , Selwood , were seating themselves at the well covered board , a loud barking from the watch dogs that guarded the ...
... Saxon ancestors usually took their principal meal , just as the family and serving - folk of the Saxon franklin * , Selwood , were seating themselves at the well covered board , a loud barking from the watch dogs that guarded the ...
Pagina 3
... Saxons and Danes , and pay him one of their predatory visits . The Danish settlements were , in fact , neither more nor less than so many formidable hordes of rapaci- ous banditti , always ready to give and take offence , and on the ...
... Saxons and Danes , and pay him one of their predatory visits . The Danish settlements were , in fact , neither more nor less than so many formidable hordes of rapaci- ous banditti , always ready to give and take offence , and on the ...
Pagina 4
... Saxons , ren- dered themselves the terror of the peacefully dispos- ed , and the scourge of the whole country . ' They are always before us , " says the Saxon Chronicler ; we always see the horizon reddened with flame , we always hear ...
... Saxons , ren- dered themselves the terror of the peacefully dispos- ed , and the scourge of the whole country . ' They are always before us , " says the Saxon Chronicler ; we always see the horizon reddened with flame , we always hear ...
Pagina 5
... Saxon fashion to remove the best part of the cheer when a stranger surprises you at your meals ? Now , that is the very dish whereof I mean to eat . " So saying , he snatched it from her hand , and placing himself in the seat of honour ...
... Saxon fashion to remove the best part of the cheer when a stranger surprises you at your meals ? Now , that is the very dish whereof I mean to eat . " So saying , he snatched it from her hand , and placing himself in the seat of honour ...
Pagina 6
... Saxon ser- vants , who knew , from the iron collar , and other unequivocal badges of slavery about his person , that ... Saxons , who very seldom ven- tured to remonstrate with their unwelcome guests , lest they should draw upon ...
... Saxon ser- vants , who knew , from the iron collar , and other unequivocal badges of slavery about his person , that ... Saxons , who very seldom ven- tured to remonstrate with their unwelcome guests , lest they should draw upon ...
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appeared Archbishop arms attended beautiful bishop Bishop of Ely Brackenbury called cardinal Castle child church Corfe Castle court cried crown Danes daughter dear death Dorothy Duke of Gloucester Duke of York Dunstan Eadred Earl of Rivers Elfrida England Ethelred exclaimed eyes faithful father fear forest Grace Guthred hand Hastings hath heart Henry holda honour Humphrey husband Jarrolds Joan King Edward king's lady Jane Lady Jane Grey Lady Lucy learning London Lord Grey mare Mary master mind mistress monarch monks mother murder never noble Northumberland person Pontefract Castle Prince Richard prisoner queen Redwald reign replied the king Reydon Ricsig Robert Brackenbury sanctuary Saxon Selwood Sir Thomas sisters sorrowful Stony Stratford Suffolk sweet tears thee thing Thomas Wolsey thou thought thrall throne Tower uncle Gloucester uncle Rivers weeping wife Winifred Witenagemot young king young prince young Wolsey youthful
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Pagina 254 - I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways (which I will not name for the honour I bear them) so without measure mis-ordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr.
Pagina 254 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning, is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it, all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.
Pagina 254 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.
Pagina 203 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Pagina 203 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. And though he were unsatisfied in getting (Which was a sin), yet in bestowing, Madam, He was most princely. Ever witness for him Those twins of learning that he raised in you, Ipswich and Oxford ! one of which fell with him, Unwilling to outlive the good that did it ; The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, So...
Pagina 202 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water. May it please your highness To hear me speak his good now ? Kath.
Pagina 203 - And though he were unsatisfied in getting, — Which was a sin,- — yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. Ever witness for him Those twins of learning, that he...
Pagina 232 - Our Lord bless you, good daughter, and your good husband, and your little boy, and all yours, and all my children, and all my godchildren and all our friends. Recommend me when ye may to my good daughter Cicely, whom I beseech our Lord to comfort.
Pagina 201 - O, father abbot, An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; Give him a little earth for charity...
Pagina 286 - ... heart; that if his soul were not firm and settled, she could not settle it by her eyes, nor confirm it by her words; that he...