The Heroines of HistoryRoutledge, 1854 - 423 sider |
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admiration afterwards Antoinette Antony appears arrived Aspasia attendants Aurelian beautiful beloved brother Cæsar castle Catherine cause character Charles circumstances Cleopatra commanded countess courage court crown D'Aubigné daughter death declared duke duke of York earl Edward Elizabeth endeavoured enemy England English event eyes fatal fate father favour favourite fearful fell followed France friends grace grief hand heart Henry Herod heroine honour Huguenots husband Isabella Jane Joan Julius Cæsar king king of Navarre king's lady less Lord Louis Madame Madame de Maintenon Madame de Villette Margaret Mariamne Marie Antoinette marriage Mary Mary's mind monarch mother never noble Pætus period person Philippa Pompey possessed present prince prince of Condé princess prisoner Ptolemy queen received reign rendered replied Roman royal scarcely Scarron scene Semiramis Sisera sister sovereign speedily spirit success talents tears throne took virtue widow wife woman words young youth Zenobia
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Side 82 - Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them...
Side 82 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Side 82 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Side 82 - Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description: she did lie In her pavilion, cloth-of-gold of tissue, O'erpicturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature.
Side 271 - We," said the Justiza to the king in name of his highspirited barons, " who are each of us as good, and who are altogether more powerful than you, promise obedience to your government, if you maintain our rights and liberties ; but if not, not.
Side 338 - and tell you a truth which, perchance, ye will marvel at. One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me is that He sent me so sharp and severe parents and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence...
Side 175 - Every man regarded her marvellously: the king himself could not withhold his regarding of her, for he thought that he never saw before so noble nor so fair a lady. He was stricken therewith to the heart with a sparkle of fine love that endured long after: he thought no lady in the world so worthy to be beloved as she.
Side 82 - As if, secure of all beholders' hearts, Neglecting she could take them ; boys, like cupids, Stood fanning, with their painted wings, the winds That played about her face ; but if she smiled, A darting glory seemed to blaze abroad: That men's desiring eyes were never wearied, But hung upon the object : to soft flutes The silver oars kept time ; and while they played The hearing gave new pleasure to the sight, And both to thought. 'Twas...
Side 185 - Ah, gentle sir, since I have crossed the sea with great danger to see you, I have never asked you one favour : now, I most humbly ask as a gift, for the sake of the Son of the blessed Mary, and for your love to me, that you will be merciful to these six men.
Side 338 - I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing whiles I am with him.