Chautauqua Library of English History and Literature ...: The wars of the rosesPhillips & Hunt, 1881 |
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Archbishop army Arundel battle Beaufort Bedford Bishop brother Buckingham Calais called Cardinal character Charles Church claim Commons conquests council crown daughter death declared Duke of Burgundy Duke of Clarence Duke of Gloucester Duke of Lancaster Duke of York Earl of March Earl of Richmond Earl of Warwick Edward Edward III enemy England English history father favor forces French guild hand hath head heir Henry IV Henry's House of Lancaster House of York John of Gaunt King Henry King Henry VI king of France King Richard king's labor Lancastrian land Lollards London Lord Margaret marriage nation never Nevilles nobility Norfolk Orleans Parliament party peace Percies Plantagenet political popular possession Prince of Wales prisoner queen rebellion reign Richard II rose royal Salique Scene siege Somerset sovereign summoned throne took treason uncle usurpation whole Wiclif young king
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Strana 35 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage ; and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once, — " Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! " Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus, — " I thank you, countrymen :" And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.
Strana 35 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas, poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard; no man cried, God save him...
Strana 79 - Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the.
Strana 17 - And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Strana 69 - return to him and to them that sent you hither, and say to them that they send no more to me for any adventure that falleth...
Strana 33 - Now mark me how I will undo myself : — I give this heavy weight from off my head, And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, The pride of kingly sway from out my heart ; With mine own tears I wash away my balm...
Strana 14 - Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth, Between two blades, which bears the better temper, Between two horses, which doth bear him best, Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye, I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judgment : • But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.
Strana 61 - And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a paradise, To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Strana 9 - THERE is no part of English history since the Conquest so obscure, so uncertain, so little authentic, or consistent, as that of the wars between the two Roses...
Strana 57 - ... reigned as a constitutional king ; he governed by the help of his parliament, with the executive aid of a council over which parliament both claimed and exercised control. Never before and never again for more than two strength of hundred years were the commons so strong as they were under Henry IV ; and, in spite of the dynastic question, the nation itself was strong in the determined action of the parliament.