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James Grant 306v3s
The genius of a monarch is said to stamp a character upon his time; but this can scarcely be said to have been the good fortune of the sovereign in whose reign I have laid the following romance. Like all the princes of his house, James V. was far in advance of the age in which he lived; for to all his forefathers' valour and ionate love of thei.. 4n2r5w
S. Baring-Gould 4m5h14
In Exitu Israel: An Historical Novel is the first of two volume historical fiction work written by S. Baring-Gould, who is also the author of ‘Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,’ ‘Origin and Development of Religious Belief,’ ‘The Silver Store,’ &c., &c.There is a side to the History of the French Revolution which is too generally overl..
Victor Hugo 5u1a6u
HANS of Iceland is the work of a young man,—a very young man.As we read it, we see clearly that the eighteen-year old boy who wrote “Hans of Iceland” during a fever fit in 1821 had no experience of men or things, no experience of ideas, and that he was striving to divine all this.Every intellectual effort, be it drama, poem, or romance, must contai..
Victor Hugo 5u1a6u
The regiment of musketeers from Munkholm was on the march through the narrow es lying between Throndhjem and Skongen. Sometimes it moved along the brink of a torrent, and the long line of bayonets crept through the ravine like a huge serpent with glittering scales; sometimes it wound around a mountain, making it look like one of those triumphal..
James Grant 306v3s
In that broad and magnificent valley which separates chain of the Grampians from the Ochil Mountains, close by the margin of the Allan, and sequestered among venerable trees, lies the pleasant and peaceful little village of Dunblane, in Scotland's elder days an old cathedral city. Northward of the limpid Allan lie purple heaths, black swamps, and d..
James Grant 306v3s
From the historical and descriptive nature of the following tale, the Author intended that certain ages should be illustrated with notes, containing the local traditions and authorities from which it has been derived; but on second thoughts he has preferred confining these explanations to the preface.History will have rendered familiar to the r..
James Grant 306v3s
Louis, surnamed the Saint, King of , having taken the cross, sailed with a splendid retinue of knights, nobles, and soldiers bent on the delivery of Jerusalem from the profanation of the Moslem; and, landing in the East, laid siege to Damietta (in Lower Egypt), which he triumphantly won by storm. But, after enduring innumerable hardships and ..
James Grant 306v3s
The image of Clermistonlee and his threats came painfully upon Lilian's memory. She shrieked for aid, but her cries were lost in the vacuity of the old-fashioned coach in which she was being carried off. She strove to open the windows, but they were immoveable as those of a castle, and she resigned herself to tears and despair. The vehicle was rumb..