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Pàgina 110 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Pàgina 110 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Pàgina 94 - Last time I mounted thee. The warning bell now bids me cease, My -trouble's nearly o'er, Yon sun that rises from the sea Shall rise on me no more. Albeit that here in London town It is my fate to die, Oh ! carry me to Northumberland, In my father's grave to lie.
Pàgina 107 - I am going fast : — it will be all over with me soon. Come nearer to me. Let my dear Lady Hamilton have my hair, and all other things belonging to me.
Pàgina 30 - Fitz-Stephen, a sea-captain, and said : " My liege, my father served your father all his life upon the sea. He steered the ship with the golden boy upon the prow, in which your father sailed to conquer England. I beseech you to grant me the same office. I have a fair vessel in the harbour here, called The White Ship, manned by fifty sailors of renown.
Pàgina 84 - Mark, child! what I say: they will cut off my head! and perhaps make thee a king: but mark what I say: thou must not be a king as long as thy brothers Charles and James are alive. They will cut off thy brothers' heads, when they can catch them! And thy head, too they will cut off at last! Therefore I charge thee, do not be made a king by them!
Pàgina 50 - The king looked at her for some time in silence, and then said ; " Ah, lady, I wish you had been anywhere else than here : you have entreated in such a manner that I cannot refuse you ; I therefore give them to you, to do as you please with them.
Pàgina 50 - Ah, gentle sir, since I have crossed the sea with great danger to see you, I have never asked you one favour: now, I most humbly ask as a gift, for the sake of the Son of the blessed Mary, and for your love to me, that you will be merciful to these six men.
Pàgina 32 - ... morning, some fishermen saw him floating in his sheepskin coat, and got him into their boat — the sole relater of the dismal tale. For three days no one dared to carry the intelligence to the King. At length, they sent into his presence a little boy, who, weeping bitterly, and kneeling at his feet, told him that The White Ship was lost, with all on board. The King fell to the ground like a dead man, and never, never afterwards was seen to smile.
Pàgina 8 - The sparrow, flying in at one door and out at the other, whilst he is within is safe from the wintry storm ; but after a...