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They who draw their notions of royal enjoyment from the tinsel of its external trappings, will scarcely believe the above cottage to have been the residence of an English princess. Yet such was the rank of its occupant but a few years since, distant as may be the contrast of c...
"In addition to peculiar and extensive privileges of hunting, hawking, and fishing, the Londoners had large portions of ground allotted to them in the vicinity of the city, for...
1. Chapter 1They who draw their notions of royal enjoyment from the tinsel of its external trappings, will scarcely believe the above cottage to have been the residence of an English prince...
2. Chapter 2The night was gathering in, and the report of each successive wave, fraught as it were with my death warrant, struck on my heart like a funeral knell. Was there no hope of escap...
4. Chapter 4I burn--I die--I cannot fly-- Too late, and all in vain: The glow--the light--charmed sense and sight-- Now naught is left but pain. That wicked flame, no pencil's aim, No pen c...