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A.D. LESSON afterwards Agricola Alfred Anglo-Saxon arrows Athelney band banner barons battle Battle of Edington became Becket Bede began bishops Boadicea brave bravest Bretwalda Britain Britons built called camp Canute carried castles chief Christian church coast Conqueror conquest crown cruel Crusade Danes death defeated defended dis-tin'-guished Domesday Book Druids Dunstan Earl Earl of Wessex Edward Egbert Emperor enemy Ethelred Ethelred the Unready famous father feudal fight forefathers forests fought France Gaul Harold harp heard heart heathen Hengest Henry Holy invaders island Jarrow Julius Cæsar Jutes king of England kingdom knights land large army learning lived Mona monasteries monks never nobles Normandy Normans numbers old English peace Picts plunder priest prince reign Richard Roman Rome round sailed Saxons Scotland Scots slain smiled soldiers soon Suetonius sword terrible things thought throne took towns tribes Venerable Bede victory warriors Welsh Wessex William wise Woden
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Strana 24 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish — write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish, hopeless and abhorr'd, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Strana 24 - WHEN the British warrior queen. Bleeding from the Roman rods, Sought, with an indignant mien, Counsel of her country's gods. Sage beneath...
Strana 25 - Other Romans shall arise, Heedless of a soldier's name; Sounds, not arms, shall win the prize — Harmony the path to fame. Then the progeny that springs From the forests of our land, Arm'd with thunder, clad with wings, Shall a wider world command. Regions Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they.
Strana 26 - Such the bard's prophetic words, Pregnant with celestial fire, Bending as he swept the chords Of his sweet but awful lyre. She, with all a monarch's pride, Felt them in her bosom glow, Rushed to battle, fought and died, Dying, hurled them at the foe. " Ruffians, pitiless as proud, Heaven awards the vengeance due ; Empire is on us bestowed, Shame and ruin wait for you !
Strana 70 - To win his smile, his favour gain. They told him e'en the mighty deep His kingly sway confessed ; That he could bid its billows leap, Or still its stormy breast. He smiled contemptuously, and cried : ' Be then my boasted empire tried.' Down to the ocean's sounding shore The proud procession came, To see its billows...
Strana 121 - And still the light of England's cause And England's love was o'er him, Until he saw his gallant boy Go down in blood before him : — He hove his huge two-handed blade, He cried " "Tis time to die ! " And smote about him like a flail, And clear'da space to lie : —
Strana 120 - Gainst which the winds and waves are hurled In vain, unmoved, four-square ; And round him stormed the raging swords Of Edward and De Clare : And round him in the narrow combe His white-cross comrades rally, While ghastly gashings cloud the beck, And crimson all the valley. And triple sword-thrusts meet his sword, And thrice the charge he foils, Though now in threefold flood the foe...
Strana 120 - For England's cause, and England's laws, With you we fight and fall." — " Together, then, and die like men, And Heaven will hold us all ! " — Then face to face, and limb to limb, And sword with sword inwoven, That stubborn courage of the race On Evesham field was proven.
Strana 71 - ... there ; Bidding, with tones of kingly pride, The waves their strife forbear : — And, while he spoke his royal will, All but the winds and waves were still. Louder the stormy blast swept by, In scorn of his idle word ; The briny deep its waves tossed high, By his mandate undeterred, As threatening, in their angry play, To sweep both king and court away.
Strana 71 - To see its billows' wild uproar King Canute's power proclaim ; Or, at his high and dread command, Not so, thought he, their noble king, As his course he seaward sped ; — And each base slave, like a guilty thing, Hung down his conscious head ; — He knew the ocean's Lord on high ! They, that he scorned their senseless lie.