Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 11 |
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... death in 1676 , at the age of forty - six . Alexis had been twice married . By his first wife , the daughter of the Bojar Meloslauski , he left two sons , and either four or six daughters . By his second wife , who was the daughter of ...
... death in 1676 , at the age of forty - six . Alexis had been twice married . By his first wife , the daughter of the Bojar Meloslauski , he left two sons , and either four or six daughters . By his second wife , who was the daughter of ...
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... death . But it would be a horrible task to narrate the atrocities which followed - the murder of the innocent ... death ; but in many cases death ensued from the infliction of a much less number . From the earliest times down to the ...
... death . But it would be a horrible task to narrate the atrocities which followed - the murder of the innocent ... death ; but in many cases death ensued from the infliction of a much less number . From the earliest times down to the ...
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... death in 1696 . THE CZAR TRAVELS . One of the most cruel wrongs Sophia had committed on her brother was that of keeping him in ignorance , and surrounding him , at the very age when character is formed , with every temptation to excess ...
... death in 1696 . THE CZAR TRAVELS . One of the most cruel wrongs Sophia had committed on her brother was that of keeping him in ignorance , and surrounding him , at the very age when character is formed , with every temptation to excess ...
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... death of his brother Ivan just at this time had thrown into his treasury the income which had maintained the dignity of the nominal czar , he had the means of strengthening and supplying his forces in a more efficient manner . The new ...
... death of his brother Ivan just at this time had thrown into his treasury the income which had maintained the dignity of the nominal czar , he had the means of strengthening and supplying his forces in a more efficient manner . The new ...
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... death over all its inhabitants ; in short , the Czar of Muscovy . Peter was at this time ( 1697 ) twenty - five years of age , and is described as a large , powerful man , with bold and regular features , dark - brown hair , that fell ...
... death over all its inhabitants ; in short , the Czar of Muscovy . Peter was at this time ( 1697 ) twenty - five years of age , and is described as a large , powerful man , with bold and regular features , dark - brown hair , that fell ...
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Page 28 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Page 8 - And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state And all the steep slope down. Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town ! But northward far, with purer blaze, On Ochil mountains fell the rays, And as each heathy top they kissed, " It gleamed a purple amethyst.
Page 22 - The bittern clamour'd from the moss, The wind blew loud and shrill ; Yet the craggy pathway she did cross To the eiry Beacon Hill. " I watch'd her steps, and silent came Where she sat her on a stone ; — No watchman stood by the dreary flame, It burned all alone. " The second night I kept her in sight, Till to the fire she came, And, by Mary's might ! an Armed Knight ( Stood by the lonely flame.
Page 13 - ... her plaid, and sat down and wept over him. It being a very desert place, where never victual grew, and far from neighbours, it was some time before any friends came to her.
Page 27 - O whare will I get a skeely skipper, To sail this new ship of mine?' O up and spake an eldern knight, Sat at the King's right knee, 'Sir Patrick Spens is the best sailor That ever sailed the sea.
Page 7 - I counsel you, Remember how It is no maiden's law Nothing to doubt, but to run out To wood with an outlaw. For ye must there in your hand bear A bow ready to draw ; And as a thief thus must...
Page 13 - To man I can be answerable ; and for God, I will take him in my own hand." Claverhouse mounted his horse, and marched, and left her with the corpse of her dead husband lying there ; she set the bairn on the ground, and gathered his brains, and tied up his head, and straighted his body, and covered him in her plaid, and sat down, and wept over him.
Page 16 - There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell ; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung, The dirge of lovely Rosabelle ! XXIV.
Page 28 - O where will I get a gude sailor, To take my helm in hand, Till I get up to the tall topmast, To see if I can spy land?' 'O here am I, a sailor gude, To take the helm in hand, Till you go up to the tall topmast, But I fear you'll ne'er spy land.
Page 21 - gainst the English yew To lift the Scottish spear. Yet his plate-jack was braced and his helmet was laced, And his vaunt-brace of proof he wore ; At his saddle-gerthe was a good steel sperthe, Full ten pound weight and more. The baron returned in three days...