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... brothers Hengist and Horsa , with whom Vortigern tried to confirm his league by marrying their sister Rowena . They were first settled in the Isle of Thanet , and soon succeeded in driving back the Picts and Scots to their own ...
... brothers Hengist and Horsa , with whom Vortigern tried to confirm his league by marrying their sister Rowena . They were first settled in the Isle of Thanet , and soon succeeded in driving back the Picts and Scots to their own ...
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... took the title of King of all Britain . He is said to have taken a cruel course with his brother Edwin , by turning him adrift in a ship without sails or oars , because he suspected him of conspiring 14 FROM THE REIGN OF ALFRED.
... took the title of King of all Britain . He is said to have taken a cruel course with his brother Edwin , by turning him adrift in a ship without sails or oars , because he suspected him of conspiring 14 FROM THE REIGN OF ALFRED.
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... brother Edmund I. ( A.D. 940 ) , a prince of remarkable promise , though forced by the Danes to agree to a partition of his kingdom with Anlaf their leader . He was slain in his own hall by a robber , named Leolf ( A.D. 947 ) , and his ...
... brother Edmund I. ( A.D. 940 ) , a prince of remarkable promise , though forced by the Danes to agree to a partition of his kingdom with Anlaf their leader . He was slain in his own hall by a robber , named Leolf ( A.D. 947 ) , and his ...
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... brother . By another account , it is said that the kingdom was divided by the nobles between Edwy and Edgar at Edred's death . The whole history therefore is very doubtful . It is certain , indeed , that Dunstan was more ambitious of ...
... brother . By another account , it is said that the kingdom was divided by the nobles between Edwy and Edgar at Edred's death . The whole history therefore is very doubtful . It is certain , indeed , that Dunstan was more ambitious of ...
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... brother , A.D. 978 . His name was Ethelred , and he was called the Unready , from the feeble resistance which he made to the Danes , who were now again rising against their Saxon rulers . Ethelred was weak enough to purchase the ...
... brother , A.D. 978 . His name was Ethelred , and he was called the Unready , from the feeble resistance which he made to the Danes , who were now again rising against their Saxon rulers . Ethelred was weak enough to purchase the ...
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Page 81 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 191 - What strings symphonious tremble in the air. What strains of vocal transport round her play ? Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear : They breathe a soul to animate thy clay.
Page 187 - Though, fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor e'en thy virtues, Tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears...
Page 137 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Page 190 - Stay, oh stay! nor thus forlorn Leave me unbless'd, unpitied, here to mourn: In yon bright track, that fires the western skies, They melt, they vanish from my eyes. But oh! what solemn scenes on Snowdon's height Descending slow their glitt'ring skirts unroll?
Page 191 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud, Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me, with joy I see The different doom our fates assign. Be thine despair and sceptred care, To triumph, and to die, are mine.
Page 191 - Girt with many a baron bold Sublime their starry fronts they rear ; And gorgeous dames, and statesmen old In bearded majesty, appear.
Page 188 - King ! their hundred arms they wave, Revenge on thee in hoarser murmurs breathe ; Vocal no more, since Cambria's fatal day, To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.
Page 188 - Eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear, as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear, as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep. They do not sleep. On yonder cliffs, a...
Page 189 - Give ample room, and verge enough The characters of hell to trace. Mark the year, and mark the night, When Severn shall re-echo with affright The shrieks of death, through Berkley's roof that ring...