Category: Historical Novels
_1st Carrier._ What, ostler!--a plague on thee, hast never an eye in thy head? Canst thou not hear? An 'twere not as good a deed as drink to break the pate of thee, I am a very villain--Come, and be hanged--Hast thou no faith in thee?
"Welcome, welcome," said that nobleman, advancing hastily to the young knight. "The Duke of Burgundy is a mile hence, with a body of horse to support the reconnoitring party. It...
16. CHAPTER XIV.For I have given here my full consent To undeck the pompous body of a king, Make glory base, and sovereignty a slave, Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant. _Richard II._
14. CHAPTER XII.Ay, this is he who wears the wreath of bays Wove by Apollo and the Sisters Nine, Which Jove's dread lightning scathes not. He hath doft The cumbrous helm of steel, and flung asi...
3. CHAPTER I._1st Carrier._ What, ostler!--a plague on thee, hast never an eye in thy head? Canst thou not hear? An 'twere not as good a deed as drink to break the pate of thee, I am a very...
12. CHAPTER X.The doors of the hall were now opened to the Swiss deputies, who for the preceding hour had been kept in attendance on the outside of the building, without receiving the slighte...
5. CHAPTER III.Away with these!--True Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature! for who teems like thee Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harol...
8. CHAPTER VI.I was, I must confess, Great Albion's queen in former golden days; But now mischance hath trod my title down, And with dishonour laid me on the ground; Where I must take like se...
9. CHAPTER VII.The eyes of the elder traveller were well accustomed to sights of martial splendour, yet even he was dazzled with the rich and glorious display of the Burgundian camp, in which,...
4. CHAPTER II.We have said in the conclusion of the last chapter, that, after a day of unwonted fatigue and extraordinary excitation, the merchant, Philipson, naturally expected to forget so...
19. CHAPTER XVII.Here's a weapon now, Shall shake a conquering general in his tent, A monarch on his throne, or reach a prelate, However holy be his offices, E'en while he serves the altar. _Old...
18. CHAPTER XVI.Sleep did not close the eyes of the Earl of Oxford or his son; for although the success or defeat of the Duke of Burgundy could not now be of importance to their own private or...
11. CHAPTER IX.The dawn of morning roused the banished Earl of Oxford and his son, and its lights were scarce abroad on the eastern heaven, ere their host, Colvin, entered with an attendant, b...
6. CHAPTER IV.Tell me not of it--I could ne'er abide The mummery of all that forced civility. "Pray, seat yourself, my lord." With cringing hams The speech is spoken, and, with bended knee, H...
7. CHAPTER V.The approach of the steward was now boldly expected by the little party. Arthur, flattered at once and elevated by the firmness which Anne had shown when this person's arrival w...
15. CHAPTER XIII.Want you a man Experienced in the world and its affairs? Here he is for your purpose.--He's a monk. He hath forsworn the world and all its work-- The rather that he knows it pas...
13. CHAPTER XI.A mirthful man he was--the snows of age Fell, but they did not chill him. Gaiety, Even in life's closing, touch'd his teeming brain With such wild visions as the setting sun Rai...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Colvin, the English officer, to whom the Duke of Burgundy, with splendid pay and appointments, committed the charge of his artillery, was owner of the tent assigned for the Engl...
17. CHAPTER XV.The commotion and shrieks of fear and amazement which were excited among the ladies of the court by an event so singular and shocking, had begun to abate, and the sighs, more se...
2. VOLUME II.1. VOLUME XLIV.