Category: Historical Novels
The banditti who made the fierce and fiery attack, as recounted in our last chapter, a few days subsequent to that sad event were arrested by the _Gens d'Armes_ in Soignies wood. They had been composed, it appeared upon examination, of the daring and desperate of different nat...
It was on a serene autumnal morning succeeding the day of Lady Adelaide's nuptials, the sun had brilliantly arisen, dispelling the misty gloom and dews of night, and shed around...
6. CHAPTER V.And tell me, I charge you---- Why fold ye your mantles, why cloud ye your brows? So spake the stern chieftain.--No answer is made; But each mantle unfolding, a dagger display'd.
4. CHAPTER III.The thirty-first day of October, sixteen hundred ninety and ----, being the birth-day of our heroine, was the morning appointed for the solemnization of the nuptials of Sir Davi...
7. CHAPTER VI.The fugitives had now proceeded upon a long and wearisome journey after their departure from the cavern, which had so opportunely afforded them shelter and protection. Lonely, d...
9. CHAPTER VIII.Oh, thou wert lovely!--lovely was thy frame, And pure thy spirit as from heaven it came! And when recalled to join the blest above, Thou diedst a victim to exceeding love!
14. CHAPTER XII.--VOL. I., p. 287."We shall have little here to do but barely to transcribe the several forms used by the citizens in riding their franchises at different periods, as the same has been transmitte...
3. chapter xv. vol. I. It only is necessary here to observe, that thepopular dance at present prevalent in Ireland is called the _long dance_; it is similar to that of the Danes in Holstein, and other parts of Denmark, which they term _de lange d...
8. CHAPTER VII.Gentle Reader, hitherto thou hast been addressed by us in the plural number, now, for the first and last time, thou wilt not surely grudge that the author should for once in _pr...
1. CHAPTER I.The banditti who made the fierce and fiery attack, as recounted in our last chapter, a few days subsequent to that sad event were arrested by the _Gens d'Armes_ in Soignies wood...
17. CHAPTER V.--VOL. III., p. 92."_Caerlaverock Castle_ was founded in the sixth century by the son of Lewarch Hen, a famous British poet; it was the chief seat of the family of Maxwell in the days of King Malc...
2. CHAPTER II.---- In the turmoils of our lives, Men are like politic states, or troubled seas, Toss'd up and down, with several storms and tempests, Change and variety of wrecks and fortunes...
21. LETTER IV.I do not find by what I heare from you and others that those in Derry are so prest for want of victuals as once was believed, so that if they could be prest otherways, it would...
11. CHAPTER VII.--VOL. I., p. 169.Grace O'Malley, formerly better known in Ireland by the name (in popular parlance) of Grana Uile; and so called from the Castle of Carrick Uley, the ruins of which are stationed...
12. CHAPTER VIII.--VOL. I., p. 195.----"I have framed a fortification Out of rye paste, which is impregnable;[17] And against that for two long hours together, Two dozen of marrow-bones shall play continually. Fo...
20. LETTER III.You will before this, have had an account from L^{d.} Melfort, of what men, arms, and stors, have been sent you, and are designed for you, I now send back to you this bearer L^{...
18. LETTER I.I am sorry to find by yours of the 27: that Luisignan is so ill hurt lett him know how much I am troubled at it, and make a complyment to Pointz upon his being hurt also, you do...
19. LETTER II.I am sorry for the losse of Ramsay, such accidents will happen, and one must not be discouraged, I am sensible you have a hard worke on your hands, but at last will I hope be ab...
10. CHAPTER I.--VOL. I., p. 17."Ailsa, about fifteen miles from the coast, [of Ayrshire,] is a vast rock of a conical form, 940 feet in height, two miles in circumference, accessible only on the north-east, a...
13. CHAPTER VIII.--VOL. I., p. 200.In BEAUMONT and FLETCHER also, mention is made of this celebrated and once fashionable game--in vol. II. p. 185, in "_The Scornful Lady_," and likewise in "_The nice Valour_," i...
15. CHAPTER III.--VOL. III., p. 36.MR. WEBER, in a note to "The Knight of the Burning Pestle," in his edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, vol. I. p. 194, Edinburgh, 1812, observes, that "the running fo...
16. CHAPTER V.--VOL. III., p. 87."The ruins of Turnberry Castle are on a promontory of the sea coast, two miles west of Kirkoswald, and five south-west of Maybole. This castle belonged to Alexander Earl of Carr...