Category: Historical Novels
Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous: How it spits against the clouds! how it capers, And how the fiery element frights it back! There be devils dancing in the air, I think.
Vetus opinio est, jam usque ab heroicis ducta temporibus, Eaque et populi Romani et omnium gentium firmata Consensu, versari quandam inter homines divinationem Quam Græci MANTIK...
2. CHAPTER II.Still in the vale the village bells ring round, Still in TYRCONNEL hall the jests resound; For now the caudle-cup is circling there, Now glad at heart the gossips breathe their...
7. CHAPTER VII.Young innocent, on whose sweet forehead mild The parted ringlet shone in simplest guise, An inmate in the home of RAYMOND smil'd, Or blest his noonday walk.--She was his only ch...
1. CHAPTER I.Lay her aloof, the sea grows dangerous: How it spits against the clouds! how it capers, And how the fiery element frights it back! There be devils dancing in the air, I think.
3. CHAPTER III.The noble guests sat long and cheerfully to celebrate with due honour the baptismal day; while potations of claret, liberally flowing, and constantly renovated from _magnum_ bot...
13. CHAPTER XIII.----Hark! from camp to camp The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch; Steed threatens steed in hig...
11. CHAPTER XI.We now bring back the reader to the realm of Ireland, which was doomed shortly to be the scene of anarchy and civil war, where disastrous tidings of awful import, posting incess...
5. CHAPTER V.----Al llegar á las puertas de la villa que era cercada, salio regimiento del pueblo á recebirle, tocáron las campanas, y todos los vecinos diéron muestras de general alegria, y...
6. CHAPTER VI.----The nature of our people, Our city's institutions, and the terms Of common justice, y'are as pregnant in As art and practice hath enriched any That we remember. There is our...
4. CHAPTER IV.Por cierto, Senör Gobernador * * * * que vuesa merced tiene mucha razon en quanto ha dicho: y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los insulanos desta insula, que han de servir á v...
9. CHAPTER IX.The celebration of the birth-day of the Lady Adelaide passed over as we have described in the preceding chapter, and our lovely heroine was now quite recovered from whatever cau...
12. CHAPTER XII.Prætexta, et trabeæ, fasces, lectica, tribunal. Quid, si vidisset Prætorem curribus altis Enstantem, et medio sublimem in pulvere circi In tunica Jovis, et pictæ sarrana ferente...
10. CHAPTER X.While matters were going forward in Ireland as we have endeavoured to describe them in the preceding chapters, the tide, meanwhile, of political occurrences in England arose to...