Landmarks of the History of England Author:James White General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1858 Original Publisher: G. Routledge Subjects: Great Britain History / General History / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books ed... more »ition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 111. Edttabd I., 1272. -- Edward II., 1307. -- Edward III., 1327. -- Bichard II., 1377. -- Henry IV., 1399. -- Henry V., 1413. -- Henry VI., 1422. -- Edward IV., 1461. -- Edward V., 1483. -- Richard III., 1483. In climbing our Bonchurch and Ventnor Downs, you most all have felt how pleasant it was to pause when you had reached a certain elevation, and to look down on the landscape spread like a map beneath your feet. The undulations and twistings of the road you had travelled are all before you -at one view. The scenery on each side, which, while'you kept to the common path, was hid from you by walls and hedgerows, is now opened, and winding valley and jutting -crag are equally submitted to your observation. So, perhaps, it will be with us at the present point to which we have brought these lectures. A long way off we see the ancient Romans gradually extending their power within this land; a turn of the road hides them from us for ever, and the Saxons and other wanderers from the chilly regions of the North take their place. Suddenly a certain spot catches the sunlight, and the roughnesses of the Saxon outline take a new shape of beauty when it lies withm the light of Christianity. Again we look, and see Law and Liberty rising like the massive rooks that on the one side support the cliff, and on the other resist the sea, and we reflect that the great and good Alfred is now upon the throne. The Danes, " The Iiiet who issued, host impelling host, The blue-eyed myriads from the Baltic...« less