English Towns and Districts: A Series of Addresses and SketchesMacmillan and Company, 1883 - 455 من الصفحات Deals mostly with the ancient history of England and Wales. |
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الصفحة 113 - Oh, evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places and slew the saints of God.
الصفحة 452 - The last British King who held a court in Holyrood thought that he could not give a more striking proof of his respect for the usages which had prevailed in Scotland before the Union, than by disguising himself in what, before the Union, was considered by nine Scotchmen out of ten as the dress of a thief.
الصفحة 88 - But the lawful king has done the tyrant a great private wrong by carrying off his wife Guenever. He has carried her off to Ynysvitrin, to keep her safe in the inaccessible island, where he is presently besieged by the tyrant Arthur with a countless host of the men of Cornwall and Devonshire. At this moment Gildas comes to the island, an exile, driven by the pirates of Orkney — wikings put a little out of their place — from his hermitage on the Steep Holm, where for seven years he had lived on...
الصفحة 454 - Edition. 8vo. ios. 6d. Contents :— The Mythical and Romantic Elements in Early English History — The Continuity of English History — The Relations between the Crown of England and Scotland — St. Thomas of Canterbury and his Biographers, &c. HISTORICAL ESSAYS. Second Series. Second Edition, with additional Essays. 8vo.
الصفحة 450 - Scot hardly ever meant warfare with the true bearers of that name, allies as they so often were of the English over-lord ; the truer name of the warfare of which Carlisle was for many ages the centre would be warfare, as in the old days before England had a single king, between the northern and the southern English kingdoms. One king marched from Westminster, another from Dunfermline, each at the head of armies of the English speech, strengthened, it may be, or weakened by wilder allies from the...
الصفحة 92 - Basan. 16 Why hop ye so, ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleasetb him to dwell : yea, the LORD will abide in it for ever...
الصفحة 88 - Arthur, in rebellion against the king of the "aestiva regio," is something which neither the biographer of Gildas nor any one else would have invented ; it must be a bit of genuine tradition. And that tradition represents Glastonbury as a place to which a king who carried off the wife of one of his under-kings was likely to carry her. This is not the picture of Glastonbury to which we are used. If any later king, any of our West-Saxon kings, had designed such a crime as that of Meluas, he would not...
الصفحة 82 - ... step by step, assimilated with Englishmen. Nowhere else, in short, do we so clearly see the state of things which is pictured to us as still fresh in the laws of Ine, but which had come to an end before the putting forth of the laws of JElfred.
الصفحة 79 - William of Malmesbury records a charter of the year 601 granted by a king of Damnonia whose name he could not make out, to an abbot whose name — will our Welsh friends, if any are here to-day, forgive him? — at once proclaimed his British barbarism.* Then follows a charter of 670 of our own West-Saxon Cenwealh. Then follows one of 678 of Centwine the King, then one of Baldred the King, then the smaller and greater charters of Ine the glorious King. Except the difficulty of making out his name,...
الصفحة 396 - But the very greatness which made London the head of the EastSaxon kingdom tended to part London off from the East-Saxon kingdom. Among the shiftings of the smaller English kingdoms, London seems to have held her own as a distinct power, sometimes acknowledging the supremacy of Mercia, sometimes the supremacy of Wessex, but always keeping somewhat of an independent being. She parts off from the main East-Saxon body ; she carries off a fragment of it along with her, to become what we may call a free...