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The Chevaliers Of France: From The Crusaders To The Marechals Of Louis XIV
The Chevaliers Of France From The Crusaders To The Marechals Of Louis XIV Author:Henry William Herbert General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Redfield Subjects: France History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France 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 edition of th... more »is book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: HAMILTON OF BOTHWELHAUGH ; fir, tjit Bnssntrt nf it. A DARK SCENE IN PARia 1565. PART I. Let the great Gods, That keep this dreadful pudder o'er our heads, Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes, Unwhipped of justice ! Hide thee, thou bloody hand ; Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtue, That art incestuous! Caitiff, to pieces shake, That under covert and convenient seeming Has practised on man's life 1 -- Close pent-up guilts, Rive your concealing continents, and cry These dreadful summoners grace! -- I am a man More sinned against than sinning. , King Lear, Act III., Scene 2. The shadows of evening had settled down upon the moor and the morass, the tangled brakes and haunted ravines of Et- trick, with more than the wonted gloom of a December's night ; the distant moanings of the heavy gale foretold the storm that was already brewing in the west, and a few broad flakes ofsnow were felt, rather than seen, flitting through the gloomy atmosphere. There needed no extraordinary sagacity to foresee the sure approach of one of those tremendous flurries, as they are termed, of hurricane and hail, which, bewildering to the stranger in the full light of day, become perilous and appalling even to the hardy natives, when encountered amid the hills in the hours of solitude and darkness. But it would seem that neither tempest nor obscurity had power to check the solitary rider, who journeyed over hill and dale Vith such unfaltering reso...« less