Category: Historical Novels
I have marshalled my men, Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one. They are true to the last, of their blood and their breath; And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.
Sad and sorrowful ever is the parting hour when beloved friends separate, perchance never more to meet again! But oh, how sad must that separation prove if not accompanied with...
1. CHAPTER I.I have marshalled my men, Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one. They are true to the last, of their blood and their breath; And like reapers descend to the harvest...
7. CHAPTER VII.Erin my country! though sad and forsaken, In dreams I revisit thy sea-beaten shore; But, alas! in a far, foreign land I waken, And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more!
2. CHAPTER II.Throughout the entire night previous to the battle of the Boyne, fearful forebodings and dismal auguries preyed upon the superstitious mind of King James. An owl had perched upo...
4. CHAPTER IV.In brief, he is a rogue of six reprieves, four pardons of course; thrice pilloried, twice sung _Lachrymæ_ to the virginals of a cat's tail; he has been five times in the galleys...
9. LETTER II."Oh, give me joy! for yesterday my beloved husband, to our unexpected happiness, returned to my arms! Oh, how it delights me he has returned; and has received permission from th...
3. CHAPTER III.It is incumbent here that we should again return to Ostend, and attend our shipwrecked voyagers, who have been left so long in durance vile, as contained in the first chapter of...
14. CHAPTER XII.Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venemous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head: And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in t...
6. CHAPTER VI.To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn; and France displays her bright domain. Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the wor...
10. CHAPTER IX.Quanta vis amicitiæ sit, ex hoc intelligi maximè Potest: quod ex infinita societate generis humani, Quam conciliavit ipsa natura, ita contracta res Est, et adducta in angustum,...
13. LETTER III."Here we are at length arrived; we have been in this city a week, and keep our head quarters at the Golden Lion, one of their principal inns, where we are most agreeably and com...
11. CHAPTER X.I know it well, my Lord--and sure the match Were rich and honourable. Besides, the gentleman Is full of virtue, bounty, worth, and qualities, Beseeming such a wife as your fair...
12. CHAPTER XI.At tibi inesse videns cunctarum ANTVERPIA, dotes, Atque alias decoris parte vigere tui; Jam Famæ Credo, nec Credo; protinus inquit, Præsens quam Specto, dixerat illa minus. Ergo...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Aligerà BRUXELLA volans super æthera famâ, In laudes solui non petit ora novas. Cerne urbis faciem; cultasque Heroibus aulas: Non est invidiam dignior ulla pati. Cerne hortos, f...