The Houses of Lancaster and York: With the Conquest and Loss of France

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Longmans, Green, 1874 - 252 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 252 - The HOUSES OF LANCASTER and YORK; with the CONQUEST and LOSS of FRANCE. By JAMES GAIRDNER, of the Public Record Office.
الصفحة 252 - A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to Secession. By JM LUDLOW, Author of "British India, its Races and its History," "The Policy of the Crown towards India,
الصفحة v - Roses we have, comparatively speaking, very few contemporary narratives of what took place, and anything like a general history of the times was not written till a much later date. But the doings of that stormy age, — the sad calamities endured by kings — the sudden changes of fortune in great men — the glitter of chivalry and the horrors of civil war, — all left a deep impression upon the mind of the nation, which was kept alive by vivid traditions of the past at the time that our great...
الصفحة 214 - of such as were secret with his chamberers, that after this abominable deed done he never had quiet in his mind, he never thought himself sure. Where he went abroad, his eyes whirled about, his body privily fenced, his hand ever on his dagger, his countenance and manner like one always ready to strike again. He took ill rest at nights, lay long waking and musing; sore wearied with care and watch, he rather slumbered than slept. Troubled with fearful dreams, suddenly sometimes started he up, leapt...
الصفحة 55 - MS. 1319. to place himself in his power at Flint. " My lord," said Lancaster to him, " I have now come before you have sent for me. The reason is that your people commonly say you have ruled them very rigorously for twenty or two and twenty years ; but, if it please God, I will help you to govern better.
الصفحة vi - The union of the two noble and illustre families of Lancaster and York, being long in continual dissension for the crown of this noble realm, with all the acts done in both the times of the princes, both of the one lineage and of the other, beginning at the time of King Henry the Fourth, the first author of this division, and so successively proceeding to the reign of the high and prudent prince King Henry the Eighth, the indubitable flower and very heir of the said lineages. It is then the marriage...
الصفحة 18 - Gibb, a good whelp of that litter, doth help mad Coll more mischief to do, And Will he doth vow, the time is come now, he'll join with their company too. Davie complains whiles Grigg gets the gains, and Hobb with them doth partake; Lorkin aloud, in the midst...

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