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id: 7676
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05
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  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.


id: 7679
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 08
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  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.


id: 7673
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 02
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  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?'


id: 7678
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07
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  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.


id: 5137
author: Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
title: Fair Em
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  A good devise: till then, Farwell, fair love. Can this be found an action of good faith Thus to dissemble where you found true love? LUBECK.


id: 7674
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 03
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  [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.


id: 7680
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 09
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  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.


id: 7675
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 04
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  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.


id: 7677
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 06
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  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.


id: 7682
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11
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  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.


id: 7672
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
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  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].


id: 7681
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
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  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.


id: 7683
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
title: Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
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  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!


id: 25848
author: Abbott, Jacob
title: William the Conqueror Makers of History
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  At the proper time, Duke Robert came in, dressed in his pilgrim's garb, and leading young William by the hand. King Henry might himself lay claims to the vacant duchy, with a view of bestowing it upon some favorite of his own, in which case he might confine young William in one of his castles, in an honorable, but still rigid and hopeless captivity, or treacherously destroy his life by the secret administration of poison.


id: 38513
author: Hayward, John, Sir
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  The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First

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  And although King _Edward_ was also descended from the _Saxon_ Kings, yet could not he deriue from them any right: For that _Edgar_ King _Edward_ not long before made a manifest way for this inuasion and change.


id: 41168
author: Blake, M. M. (Matilda Maria)
title: The Siege of Norwich Castle: A story of the last struggle against the Conqueror
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  This ceremony was magnificently observed at the East Anglian earl's wedding, and Emma de Guader dispensed the favourite Saxon drink in a glorious golden beaker, which was of depth sufficient to try the wind and capacity of the gallants, as they strove to empty it without drawing breath, particularly of the Normans, who were not adepts at the art of copious drinking. The day which was to part Emma de Guader from her bridegroom dawned clear and bright, and the summer sunshine sparkled upon the broad reaches of the Yare, and gleamed amidst the pale green rushes and brown osier beds of the Cowholme, shining with impartial equality, not only upon the just and the unjust, but upon the joyous and the sad.


