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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...with his victorious troops, the Britons rose. Because Boadicea, a British queen, the widow of the King of the Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted th... ...o the last; but they were vanquished with great slaughter, and the unhappy queen took poison. Still, the spirit of the Britons was not broken. When Su... ...ntlemen paid ransom and went home. The wife of Louis, the fair Blanche of Castile , dutifully equipped a fleet of eighty good ships, and sent it over... ...carried before her, upon which were a picture of God, and the words Jesus Maria . In this splendid state, at the head of a great body Charles Dicken... ...rtunity. All of a sudden there appeared at Cork, in a vessel arriving from Portugal, a young man of excellent abilities, of very handsome appearance a... ...ssing to it; that Baby Charles had actually fallen in love with Henrietta Maria , the French King’s sister, whom he had seen in Paris; that he though... ...he sent a fleet abroad under bold Admiral Blake, which brought the King of Portugal to his senses—just to keep its hand in—and then engaged a Spanish ...
...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...
... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...e quite a paragon, And worthy of the noblest pedigree (His sire was of Castile, his dam from Aragon): Then for accomplishments of chivalry, ... ...e so much to quote; You must excuse this extract, ‘t is where she, The Queen of Denmark, for Ophelia brought Flowers to the grave); and, sob... ...In Spain, he’d make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goet... ... her lover, left alone, The rosy flood of twilight’s sky admired;— Ave Maria! o’er the earth and sea, That heavenliest hour of Heaven is worth... ...he earth and sea, That heavenliest hour of Heaven is worthiest thee! Ave Maria! blessed be the hour! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so... ...ing; ‘T was famous, too, for Thisbe and for Pyramus, And the calumniated queen Semiramis. That injured Queen by chroniclers so coarse Has be...
...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...