Tales of a Grandfather: History of Scotland, Volum 2

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Ticknor and Fields, 1861
 

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Pàgina 248 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death, ere thou hast slain another Wise, and good, and learn'd as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Pàgina 90 - Leith, and burn and subvert it, and all the rest, putting man, woman, and child to fire and sword, without exception, when any resistance shall be made against you.
Pàgina 54 - He then asked the King, in turn, who he was; and James replied, as usual, that he was the Goodman of Ballengiech, a poor man who had a small appointment about the palace; but he added, that if John Howieson would come to see him on the next Sunday, he would endeavor to repay his manful assistance, and, at least, give him the pleasure of seeing the royal apartments.
Pàgina 80 - Well, said he, if you had the las and we the lad, we coulde be well content with it ; but I cannot beleve that your nacyon coulde agree to have a Scotte to be Kyng of England. And lykewise I assure you, said he, that our nacyon being a stout nacyon, will never agree to have an Englishman to be King of Scotland. And though the hale nobilite of the realme wolde consent unto it, zet our comen people and the stenes in the strete wolde ryse and rebelle against it.
Pàgina 199 - Let us not stay to be burned in the flaming house : I will go out foremost, and the Gordons, taking me for your lordship, will kill me, while you escape in the confusion.' They rushed out among their enemies accordingly, and Dunbar was slain. But his death did not save his friend, as he had generously intended.
Pàgina 238 - A short time before her death she broke the silence which she had so long preserved on that subject, and told Cecil and the lord admiral, " That her throne was the throne of kings ; that she would have no mean person to ascend it, and that her cousin the king of Scots should be her successor.
Pàgina 127 - The witnesses, the actors, and the scene of this cruel tragedy, render it one of the most extraordinary which history records. The cabinet and the bedroom still remain in the same condition in which they were at the time ; and the floor near the head of the stair bears visible marks of the blood of the unhappy Rizzio. The Queen continued to beg his life with prayers and tears ; but when she learned that he was dead, she dried her tears. — " I will now," she said,
Pàgina 198 - This was enough to make the two families irreconcilable enemies, even if they had been otherwise on friendly terms. Murray was so handsome and personable a man, that he was generally known by the name of the Bonnie Earl of Murray. About...
Pàgina 80 - I have gained ten years advantage ? If I had refused the King's orders, I must have been instantly put to death; but as it is, I have the advantage of a long delay, during which the King may die, the ass may die, or I may die myself. In either of the three cases, I am freed from my trouble. Even so...
Pàgina 52 - Highlander, /with an axe on his shoulder, standing sentinel at the door. This grim warder refused the King admittance, saying, that the laird of Arnpryor was at dinner, and would not be disturbed. " Yet go up to the company, my good friend...

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