Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Bind 13 |
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... length , however , the long - desired grandson came into the world in our hero , Henry IV . Some curious particulars are related respecting Henry's birth , The old king being desirous that the heir of Navarre should be born within the ...
... length , however , the long - desired grandson came into the world in our hero , Henry IV . Some curious particulars are related respecting Henry's birth , The old king being desirous that the heir of Navarre should be born within the ...
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... length I arrived at the college of Bur- gundy , where a still greater danger awaited me . The porter twice refused me admission , and I continued standing in the middle of the street , at the mercy of the furious murderers , whose ...
... length I arrived at the college of Bur- gundy , where a still greater danger awaited me . The porter twice refused me admission , and I continued standing in the middle of the street , at the mercy of the furious murderers , whose ...
Side 11
... length , early in the year 1576 , he contrived to elude the vigilance of the spies who surrounded him , and proceeding to Tours , he publicly renounced the Catholic religion , declared his adherence to it during the last four years to ...
... length , early in the year 1576 , he contrived to elude the vigilance of the spies who surrounded him , and proceeding to Tours , he publicly renounced the Catholic religion , declared his adherence to it during the last four years to ...
Side 15
... length , and was ready to have recourse to the most desperate measures for preserving the supremacy of the Catholic religion . This formidable society had long wrought in secret , but it had become now incorporated with the League ...
... length , and was ready to have recourse to the most desperate measures for preserving the supremacy of the Catholic religion . This formidable society had long wrought in secret , but it had become now incorporated with the League ...
Side 22
... length , just as the garrison was on the point of surrendering , Henry was compelled to raise the siege by a clever manœuvre of the Duke of Parma , who , hearing of the distress of the Parisians , had come to their assistance . This ...
... length , just as the garrison was on the point of surrendering , Henry was compelled to raise the siege by a clever manœuvre of the Duke of Parma , who , hearing of the distress of the Parisians , had come to their assistance . This ...
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Admiral de Coligny Andrayne army Bécard began benevolent bite bonnie Braes busk called Catholic charmer child Confalonieri daughter dear death distress door Dr Fulton Duke Duke of Guise Duke of Orleans eggs Eustache eyes father feelings felt frae France Frank French friends girl grief hand happy head heard heart Helen Gray Henry hope Huguenots Jacobin Club Jane Jeanne Jeanne d'Albret Jessie Jessie's kind king of Navarre lady League length live looked Louis Louis XVI Madame de Chavilhac maun mind Minghini morning mother Napoleon never night noble Paris Pauline person poor prince Prince of Condé prison Protestants Prussia reptile Robin Saint-Servan Salvotti seemed serpents shew sister snake St Germain-en-Laye suffering Sully thee thou thought tion Todlaw Mains took Uncle Joshua viper whilst wife woman words Yarrow young Logie
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Side 21 - Now by the lips of those ye love, fair gentlemen of France, Charge for the golden lilies now — upon them with the lance! A thousand spurs are striking deep, a thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre.
Side 3 - Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 22 - D'Aumale hath cried for quarter. The Flemish count is slain. Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale ; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags, and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and, all along our van, " Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man. But out spake gentle Henry, " No Frenchman is my foe : Down, down, with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Side 27 - ... grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see : My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Side 3 - Up then crew the red, red cock, And up and crew the gray; The eldest to the youngest said,
Side 20 - Full fifteen stane o' Spanish iron, They hae laid a' right sair on me ; Wi' locks and keys I am fast bound Into this dungeon dark and dreirie.
Side 2 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Side 31 - Lang maun she weep, lang maun she, maun she weep, Lang maun she weep with dule and sorrow, And lang maun I nae mair weil be seen Pu'ing the birks on the Braes of Yarrow.