The History of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest, 2. köideLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1836 |
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... HAROLD the First , surnamed HAREFOOT . 1035 . Harold succeeds his father 1040. His death CHAP . XIII . The Reign of HARDICANUTE . 1040. He succeeds his brother 1042. His sudden death CHAP . XIV . The Reign of EDWARD the Confessor - The ...
... HAROLD the First , surnamed HAREFOOT . 1035 . Harold succeeds his father 1040. His death CHAP . XIII . The Reign of HARDICANUTE . 1040. He succeeds his brother 1042. His sudden death CHAP . XIV . The Reign of EDWARD the Confessor - The ...
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... Harold and William Harold's transactions in Normandy The tapestry of Bayeux Harold's coronation His brother Tostig invades him William accedes in Normandy His message to Harold Harold's answer King of Norway invades His defeat and death ...
... Harold and William Harold's transactions in Normandy The tapestry of Bayeux Harold's coronation His brother Tostig invades him William accedes in Normandy His message to Harold Harold's answer King of Norway invades His defeat and death ...
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... Harold , p . 115. So Wallingford , 541. The Chroni- cle of Mailros also calls him Eyric the son of Harold , p . 148. Ingulf names him Hircius , p . 30. Simeon calls him Eiric , a Dane , 134 . Matt . West . has Elric , p . 368 . 4 ...
... Harold , p . 115. So Wallingford , 541. The Chroni- cle of Mailros also calls him Eyric the son of Harold , p . 148. Ingulf names him Hircius , p . 30. Simeon calls him Eiric , a Dane , 134 . Matt . West . has Elric , p . 368 . 4 ...
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... Harold was the last of the Anglo - Saxon kings . His origin has never yet been mentioned in Eng- lish history ; but as the rise of poverty to grandeur is always an interesting contemplation , we will state the short history of Godwin's ...
... Harold was the last of the Anglo - Saxon kings . His origin has never yet been mentioned in Eng- lish history ; but as the rise of poverty to grandeur is always an interesting contemplation , we will state the short history of Godwin's ...
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... , from a royal pen , are highly valuable . Such kings give new splendor to their thrones , and secure to themselves that perpetuity of fame which mortality so covets . CHAP . XII . The Reign of HAROLD the First ANGLO - SAXONS . 349.
... , from a royal pen , are highly valuable . Such kings give new splendor to their thrones , and secure to themselves that perpetuity of fame which mortality so covets . CHAP . XII . The Reign of HAROLD the First ANGLO - SAXONS . 349.
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Page 425 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 425 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 426 - When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?
Page 426 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well ? the old man of whom ye spake ; is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive : and they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.
Page 428 - Alone can rival, can succeed to thee. • How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ? The world forgetting, by the world forgot : Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind ! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd ; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep ; ' Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep ;' Desires composed, affections ever even ; Tears that delight,' and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Page 426 - And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Page 22 - O THOU, whose power o'er moving worlds presides ! Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides ! On darkling man, in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine.
Page 427 - God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love.
Page 426 - These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. — The rolling year Is full of thee.
Page 83 - He was one of the first men in that country, yet he had not more than twenty horned cattle, and twenty sheep, and twenty swine, and the little that he ploughed he ploughed with horses. But their wealth consists for the most part in the rent paid them by the Fins. That rent is in skins of animals, and birds' feathers, and whalebone, and in ship-ropes made of whales