Category: Historical Novels
_Citizen._ Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have had inkling, this fortnight, what we intend to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor suitors have strong breath: they shall know we have strong arms too.
From house to house, from street to street, The rapid rumour flies; Incredulous ears it finds, and hands Are lifted in surprise; And tongues through all the astonished town Are...
17. CHAPTER XVII.O blisful ordre, O wedlock precious, Thou art so mery, and so virtuous, And so commended, and approved eke, That every man that holt him worth a leke, Upon his bare knees oughte...
7. CHAPTER VII.The father was steel, and the mother was stone; They lifted the latch, and they bid him begone. But loud on the morrow their wail and their cry! He had laughed on the lass with...
5. CHAPTER V._Margaret._ To me what's title when content is wanting? Or wealth, raked up together with much care, And to be kept with more, when the heart pines, In being dispossessed of wha...
16. CHAPTER XVI.There be bright faces in the busy hall, Bowls on the board, and banners on the wall; Far checkering o'er the pictured window, plays The unwonted faggot's hospitable blaze; And g...
11. CHAPTER XI.And this the world calls frenzy. But the wise Have a far deeper madness, and the glance Of melancholy is a fearful gift. What is it but the telescope of truth? Which strips the...
10. CHAPTER X._Dogberry._ Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth, and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdl...
12. CHAPTER XII.That same evening the fugitive couple arrived in the metropolis, and took up their abode in apartments engaged for them by Mr. Riches at a hotel. It was time. Already they were...
2. CHAPTER II.When tumult lately burst his prison door, And set plebeian thousands in a roar, When he usurped authority's just place, And dared to look his master in the face, Liberty blushed...
6. CHAPTER VI.These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness,...
15. CHAPTER XV.Oh, days of youth and joy, long clouded, Why thus for ever haunt my view? When in the grave your light lay shrouded, Why did not memory die there too? Vainly doth hope her strai...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Decline all this, and see what now thou art. For one being sued to, one that humbly sues; For queen, a very caitiff crowned with care; For one that scorned at me, now scorned of...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Do you note, How much her Grace is altered on the sudden? How long her face is drawn? How pale she looks, And of an earthly cold? Mark you her eyes?
4. CHAPTER IV.O Primavera, gioventu del' anno, Bella madre de' fiori, D'erbe novelle, e di novelli amori, Tu torni ben, ma teco Non tornano i sereni E fortunati di delle mie gioje: Tu torni b...
3. CHAPTER III.The destruction of Pendarrel Hall was the crowning outrage of the riotous. It was a crime for which a severe retribution was certain to be exacted. On information, given partly...
9. CHAPTER IX.None but an author knows an author's cares, Or fancy's fondness for the child she bears: Committed once into the public arms, The baby seems to smile with added charms: Like som...
1. CHAPTER I._Citizen._ Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have had inkling, this fortnight, what we intend to do, which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor suitors have...