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          id: 16669
      author: Holinshed, Raphael
       title: Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England
        date: None
       words: 21421
      flesch: 69
     summary: [Sidenote: Duke William eftsoones sendeth to king Harold.] For Tostie the brother of king Harold (who in the daies of king Edward for his crueltie had béene chased out of the realme by the Northumbers) returning out of Flanders, assembled a nauie of ships from diuers parts to the number of 60, with the which he arriued in [Sidenote: _Matt.
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 7672
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
        date: None
       words: 17019
      flesch: 59
     summary: According to the plan I adopt, I have to make the reader acquainted with the imperfect fusion of races in Saxon England, familiarise him with the contests of parties and the ambition of chiefs, show him the strength and the weakness of a kindly but ignorant church; of a brave but turbulent aristocracy; of a people partially free, and naturally energetic, but disunited by successive immigrations, and having lost much of the proud jealousies of national liberty by submission to the preceding conquests of the Dane; acquiescent in the sway of foreign kings, and with that bulwark against invasion which an hereditary order of aristocracy usually erects, loosened to its very foundations by the copious admixture of foreign nobles. In like manner their kindred tribes, who had poured into Saxon England to ravage and lay desolate, had no sooner obtained from Alfred the Great permanent homes, than they became perhaps the most powerful, and in a short time not the least patriotic, part of the Anglo-Saxon population [18].
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 7673
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
        date: None
       words: 10201
      flesch: 71
     summary: And he who wrongs me here, is foe and traitor to me, not as Norman Duke but as human being. Knowest thou not that Duke William the dauntless at eight years old had the Comments of Julius Caesar by heart?--and that it is his saying, that 'a king without letters is a crowned ass?'
    keywords: church; duke; edward; face; fitzosborne; hand; head; king; lord; men; norman; priest; rou; saxon; taillefer; thee; thou; thy; william
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 7674
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03
        date: None
       words: 14481
      flesch: 75
     summary: [73] and riders of the Earl; and hosts, with one voice, answered the cry of the children of Horsa, Life or death with Earl Godwin. Friendly and peace-making Sir, dare I so far venture to intrude on the secrets of thy mission as to ask if Godwin demands, among other reasonable items, the head of thy humble servant --not by name indeed, for my name is as yet unknown to him--but as one of the unhappy class called Normans? Had Earl Godwin, returned the nuncius, thought fit to treat for peace by asking vengeance, he would have chosen another spokesman.
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 7675
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04
        date: None
       words: 15948
      flesch: 75
     summary: Ere Harold could reply, Githa exclaimed: Leave there thy right hand on my child's head, and say, simply: 'By my troth and my plight, if the Duke detain Wolnoth, son of Githa, against just plea, and King's assent to his return, I, Harold, will, failing letter and nuncius, cross the seas, to restore the child to the mother.' Earl Harold needs no bride to bring spearmen to his back at his need; and his lordships he will guard with the shield of a man, not the spindle of a woman.
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 7676
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05
        date: None
       words: 10335
      flesch: 78
     summary: O Harold, release me from my promise; for the time already hath come that thy sister foretold to me; the silver cord is loosened, and the golden bowl is broken, and I would fain take the wings of the dove, and be at peace. Is it so?--Is there peace in the home where the thought of Harold becomes a sin? Not sin then and there, Harold, not sin. Depart to thy home, my brother, said Earl Harold to Tostig, and grieve not that Algar is preferred to thee.
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 7677
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06
        date: None
       words: 16184
      flesch: 73
     summary: Harold, like all calm and mild men, ever says less than he means, returned Algar; and were Harold king, small pretext would he need for cutting the talons and drawing the fangs. But Algar was as little match for Earl Harold in speech as in sword play.
    keywords: algar; atheling; earl; edith; edward; england; godrith; good; graville; gryffyth; harold; kent; king; knight; love; men; norman; saxon; sexwolf; thee; thou; thy; vebba; william
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 7678
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07
        date: None
       words: 11889
      flesch: 79
     summary: Already the strong rings of his mail had been twice pierced, and his blood trickled fast, while his great sword had but smitten the air in its sweeps at the foe; when the Saxon phalanx, taking advantage of the breach in the ring that girt them, caused by this diversion, and recognising with fierce ire the gold torque and breastplate of the Welch King, made their desperate charge. Thou turnest in loathing from the lord whose marriage-gift was a crown; and the sleek form of thy Saxon Harold rises up through the clouds of the carnage.
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 7679
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08
        date: None
       words: 10470
      flesch: 72
     summary: The next day, with a gallant company, the falcon on his wrist [186], the sprightly hound gamboling before his steed, blithe of heart and high in hope, Earl Harold took his way to the Norman court. CHAPTER I. Some days after the tragical event with which the last chapter closed, the ships of the Saxons were assembled in the wide waters of Conway; and on the small fore-deck of the stateliest vessel, stood Harold, bareheaded, before Aldyth, the widowed Queen.
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 7680
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09
        date: None
       words: 15302
      flesch: 70
     summary: You most grievously wrong Duke William, cried Harold, indignantly, to suppose, merely in that playful humor, for which ye Normans are famous, that he could lay force on his confiding guest? Duke William politicly checked Odo's answer, and said mildly: Every land its own laws: and by them alone should it be governed by a virtuous and wise ruler.
    keywords: brother; duke; earl; edward; england; english; graville; haco; hand; harold; king; lord; men; noble; norman; odo; saxon; thee; thou; thy; william
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 7681
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
        date: None
       words: 19586
      flesch: 73
     summary: Abbot combined with thegn in zeal for Earl Harold. The good Bishop Alred, now raised to the See of York, had been summoned from his cathedral seat by Edward, who had indeed undergone a severe illness, during the absence of Harold; and that illness had been both preceded and followed by mystical presentiments of the evil days that were to fall on England after his death.
    keywords: alred; brother; earl; edith; england; face; haco; harold; hath; heart; house; king; life; love; man; men; norman; saxon; son; soul; thee; thegns; thou; thy; tostig
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 7682
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11
        date: None
       words: 17977
      flesch: 78
     summary: Meanwhile, King Harold of England had made himself dear to his people, and been true to the fame he had won as Harold the Earl. From the moment of his accession, he showed himself pious, humble, and affable King Harold came from York, whither he had gone to cement the new power of Morcar, in Northumbria, and personally to confirm the allegiance of the Anglo-Danes:--King Harold came from York, and in the halls of Westminster he found a monk who awaited him with the messages of William the Norman.
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 7683
      author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
       title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
        date: None
       words: 42986
      flesch: 74
     summary: Before that standard, in the front of the men, stood Gurth, and Leofwine, and Haco, and Harold, the last leaning for rest upon his axe, for he was sorely wounded in many places, and the blood oozed through the links of his mail. Live, Harold; live yet, and Saxon England shall not die! In many a noiseless field, with Thoughts for Armies, your relics, O Saxon Heroes, have won back the victory from the bones of the Norman saints; and whenever, with fairer fates, Freedom opposes Force, and Justice, redeeming the old defeat, smites down the armed Frauds that would consecrate the wrong,--smile, O soul of our Saxon Harold, smile, appeased, on the Saxon's land!
    keywords: anglo; army; banner; battle; brother; church; country; crown; day; dead; death; duke; edith; edward; end; england; english; face; field; foe; foot; godwin; graville; great; gurth; haco; hand; harold; hath; head; heart; hilda; king; knight; life; lines; london; love; men; norman; note; right; round; saxon; son; standard; thee; thou; thy; time; voice; william; word
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