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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...- ging up the hideous perpendicular place, you were to find regi- ments of British grenadiers ready to plunge bayonets into your poor panting stomach,... ...” or the brave “Horse Marine,” where the people of our nation are drinking British beer and gin, you hear choruses of “Garryowen” or “The Lass I left ... ...read about wars comfortably in Harry Lorrequer or Scott’s novels, in which knights shout their war-cries, and jovial Irish bayoneteers hurrah, without... ...rtifications:as far as I can understand the former, Gibraltar is the great British depot for smuggling goods into the Peninsula. Y ou see vessels lyin... ...m were the palaces of the successors of the goodli- est company of gallant knights the world ever heard tell of. It seems unromantic; but these were n... ...d ever heard tell of. It seems unromantic; but these were not the romantic Knights of St. John. The heroic days of the Order ended as the last Turki... ...r which 35 Thackeray men are supposed to assemble there!The Church of the Knights of St. John is paved over with sprawling heraldic devices of the d...

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...e back; this time, with eight hundred vessels and thirty thousand men. The British tribes chose, as their general in chief, a Briton, whom the Romans ... ...ef, a Briton, whom the Romans in their Latin language called —, but whose British name is supposed to have been Caswallon. A brave general he was, an... ...oman soldiers saw a great cloud of dust, and heard the rattle of the rapid British chariots, they trembled in their hearts. Besides a number of smalle... ... the whole; though he and his men al ways fought like lions. As the other British chiefs were jealous of him, and were always quarrel ling with him,... ...y did little; and Ostorius Scapula , an other general, came. Some of the British Chiefs of Tribes submitted. Others resolved to fight to the death. ... ...the eye, was nearly blind. His brothers were already killed. Twenty Norman Knights, whose battered armour had flashed fiery and golden in the sun shi... ...n the moonlight, dashed forward to seize the Royal banner from the English Knights and soldiers, still faithfully collected round their blinded King. ... ... William, which was pitched near the spot where Harold fell—and he and his knights were carousing, within—and soldiers with torches, going slowly to a... ...61 against him there, King William seized upon, and gave to his own Norman knights and nobles. Many great English families of the present time acquire...

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...mn gloom, That shrouds, O Pitt, thy hallowed tomb! Deep graved in every British heart, Oh never let those names depart! Say to your sons—Lo, here h... ...banner proud to stand, Looked up the noblest of the land, Till through the British world were known The names of Pitt and Fox alone. Spells of such fo... ... was their love!) He sought proud Tarquin in his den, And freed full sixty knights; or when, 10 Marmion A sinful man, and unconfessed, He took the Sa... ...vision high, He might not view with waking eye. The mightiest chiefs of British song Scorned not such legends to prolong: They gleam through Spense... ... Although with them they led Galwegians, wild as ocean’s gale, And Lodon’s knights, all sheathed in mail, And the bold men of Teviotdale, Before hi... ...branches made. “A pleasant path,” Fitz-Eustace said, “Such as where errant-knights might see Adventures of high chivalry; Might meet some damsel flyin... ...nd night: Dazzling alternately and dim, Her wavering lamp I’d rather trim, Knights, squires, and lovely dames, to see Creation of my fantasy, Than gaz... ... On Flemish steeds of bone and height, With battle-axe and spear. Young knights and squires, a lighter train, Practised their chargers on the plain...

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...re full of his hounds giving tongue, and the woodways were packed with his knights in armour riding down into the water-mists—all his own Magic, of co... ...sometimes waist-deep among his shadow-hounds— sometimes leading his shadow-knights on a hawk-winged horse to rescue his shadow-girls. I never guessed ... ...‘But Iron—Cold Iron—shall be master of you all!’ Woe for the Baron and his knights so strong, When the cruel cannon-balls laid ‘em all along! He was t... ...s if the place belonged to him— and commanding all and sundry to fight the British. But I’d heard that before. I got into a long straight street as wi... ...athered and shelled and beaded no bounds. I thought it was war against the British till I saw their faces weren’t painted, and they only carried wrist... ...avy to help them fight France, on pretence that those Americans was lawful British subjects. His gentlemen put this very clear to Big Hand. It didn’t ... ...d and the United States for such as ‘ud take the risk of being searched by British and French men-o’-war. Those two was fighting, and just as his gent... ... American ship he’d press half the best men out of her, and swear they was British subjects. Most of ‘em was! If a Frenchman met her he’d, likely, hav... ...f Pook’s Hill. See ‘Young Men at the Manor,’ 182 Rewards and Fairies ‘The Knights of the Joyous Venture,’ and ‘Old Men at Pevensey,’ in that book.] ‘...

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...imagination by yet more sacred remem- brances—had been of late surveyed by British eyes, and de- scribed by recent travellers. Had I, therefore, attem... ...d was killed there. Lockhart proceeded to the Holy Land with such Scottish knights as had escaped the fate of their leader and assisted for some time ... ...r repress his fury. The Marquis he said, was a traitor, who had robbed the Knights Hospitallers of sixty thousand pounds, the present of his father He... ...ing consternation among the Turks, who feared death from the lances of the knights less than that further consummation they heard of under the teeth o... ...ple. They had their tournaments and games of chivalry; they had even their knights, or some rank analogous; and above all, the Saracens observed their... ... what is impossible, and reporting what never chanced. Thou art one of the knights of France, who hold it for glee and pastime to gab, as they term it... ...y spread an alarm, as general as the cause seemed vague, through the whole British forces. The En- glish soldiers, waked in alarm from that noonday re...

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...e given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet to- ward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth cen- ... ...ring and proselyting armies of the French Directory. 14 Billy Budd To the British Empire the Nore Mutiny was what a strike in the fire-brigade would ... ...d- the blue-jackets, to be num- bered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out; by that cancellation tra... ...re- strains celebrating, among other things, the patriotic devotion of the British tar: “And as for my life, ’tis the King’s!” Such an episode in the ... ...m, a clumsy con- trivance, was, as is well known, scouted by no few of the knights as a base implement, good enough peradventure for weavers too crave... ...ashore, knightly valor, tho’ shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights, neither on the seas, though nowadays in encounters there a certain... ...ates as Don John of Austria, Doria, Van Tromp, Jean Bart, the long line of British Admi- rals and the American Decaturs of 1812 become obsolete with t...

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... lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights er rant of yore, —by single combat; but lchabod was too con sci... ...f those highly favored places which abound with chronicle and great men. The British and American line had run near it during the war; it had, therefo... ...y of Doffue Martling, a large blue bearded Dutchman, who had nearly taken a British frigate with an old iron nine pounder from a mud breastwork, only...

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...ant of Books and Men! 16. It is not to be thought of that the Flood Of British freedom, which to the open Sea Of the world’s praise from dark an... ... good Be lost for ever. In our Halls is hung Armoury of the invincible Knights of old: We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shake... ...25. ANTICIPATION October, 1803. Shout, for a mighty Victory is won! On British ground the Invaders are laid low; The breath of Heaven has drifte...

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...is Government, and in its name, to accept the coffin from the hands of the British authori- ties, and that he and the other persons composing the Fren... ... Guizot was the worthy representative of the French good- will towards the British people; and the remark frequently made by our orators at public din... ...sus at the gate of the Horse Guards can be considered a fair sample of the British soldier of the line. The sword and pistol, however, had no doubt th... ...than all the politeness and high-breeding that ever wore red-heeled pumps, knights’ spurs, or Hoby’s boots, Titmarsh for one is never going to say you...

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...vant to Posthumus. CORNELIUS: a physician. A Roman Captain. (Captain:) Two British Captains. A Frenchman, friend to Philario. Frenchman. Two Lords o... ...y end Can make good use of either: she being down, I have the placing of the British crown. [Re enter CLOTEN .] How now, my son! CLOTEN: ... ...rom one side, LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and the Roman Army: from the other side, the British Army; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS following, like a poor soldier. They mar... ...unt.] SCENE III: Another part of the field. [Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord .] Lord: Camest thou from where they made the stand? POSTHU... ...re I’ll keep nor bear again, But end it by some means for Imogen. [Enter two British Captains and Soldiers .] First Captain : Great Jupiter be praise... ...are honest. CYMBELINE: Bow your knees. Arise my knights o’ the battle: I create you Companions to our person and will fi...

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...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ...ronged the town, and appeared in every public place, filled George’s truly British soul with in- tense delight. They flung off that happy frigidity an... ...from the conversation. This is a species of dignity in which the high-bred British fe- male reigns supreme. To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to o... ... Opera. It was almost like Old England. The house was filled with familiar British faces, and those toilettes for which the British female has long be... ...k. It pleased him to see his old quarters, and his old fellow-guardsmen at Knightsbridge: he had begun to think of his bachelorhood with something lik... ... in a Very Small Way WE MUST SUPPOSE little George Osborne has ridden from Knightsbridge towards Fulham, and will stop and make in- quiries at that vi... ...e pawns were little green and white men, with real swords and shields; the knights were on horseback, the castles were on the backs of elephants. “Mrs... ...the gloomy spot, where the bones of the descen- dant of an ancient line of knights and gentlemen lay, awaiting their final consignment to the family c...

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...on: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. 9. E. T . MASON. Personal T raits of British Authors. New York, 1885. [4 vols. The volume subtitled Scott, Hogg,... ...for shelter? Is a prison the safest retreat? or a lunatic hospital? or the British Museum?” I should have replied, “Oh no; I’ll tell you what to do. T... ...e it must go undone. The bet- ter men that I meant were the sailors in the British navy, every man of whom mends his own stockings. Who else is to do ... ...tural detection of the dauphin (Charles VII) among three hundred lords and knights, I am surprised at the credulity which could ever lend itself to th... ... of Post- Office conveyance, and of locomotive machinery generally, in the British Islands. The result was a scheme for supersed- ing, on the great ro... ...the great French admiral who in 1780- 1781 inflicted so much loss upon the British. 70 10 MAGNANIMOUS JUSTICE OF ENGLISHMEN: As Professor Hart observe... ... OF FEUDALISM, ETC.: The English yeomen at Crecy, overpowering the mounted knights of France, took from feudalism its chief support,—the superiority o... ...discontinuance at the Revolution this order was reinstated in 1814; but no knights have been created since 1830. “Chevalier” is the lowest rank in suc...

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...ng of Harold Fairhair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The... ...Viking blood a little altered. (2) “West over the Sea” is the word for the British Isles. (3) See T odd (J. H.). “War of the Gaedhil with the Gaill”. ... ... Documents relating to the Settlements and Descents of the Northmen on the British Isles. Ed., G. W. Dasent, D.C.L, and Gudbrand Vigfusson, M.A. “In t... ...he same time in English State papers as plundering along the coasts of the British Isles, especially Ireland. 18 The V olsunga Saga Iceland. has alwa... ...o me by the rede of thy kin, and dower paid I for thee; yea, thirty goodly knights, and seemly maidens, and many men besides; and yet wert thou not co... ... our hands wrought Folk of the kings. Red shields we did, Doughty knights of the Huns, Hosts spear-dight, hosts helm-dight, All a high ... ... “Fare happy, O Lords, Whereso your hearts lead you!” Then the bold knights Let their bit-griping steeds Wend swift o’er the fells, Tr...

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...campaign as a mere boy at the time of the battle of Almanza, that solitary British defeat, for which our na- tional consolation is that the French wer... ..., when the pos- session of Gibraltar and Minorca had provided harbours for British ships, which exercised a salutary supervision over these Southern s... ...aptain, and then the best that could betide ye wad be that a shot frae the Knights of Malta should make quick work wi’ ye. Or look at the dumbie there... ... down on them from the opposite direction. ‘Rascals. Do they not dread the British flag?’ cried Arthur. ‘Surely that will protect us?’ ‘They are small... ...ible of a relaxation of effort, and that the chase was over, then that the British boat was alongside, friendly voices ringing in his ears, ‘How now, ... ...his ears, ‘How now, mates? Runaways, eh? Where d’ye hail from?’ ‘Scottish! British!’ panted out Arthur, unable to utter more, faint, giddy, and astoun...

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...ely through brake and brier, over ditch and dyke, and meet with a score of knights around her who will be willing and able to give her eager aid shoul... ...ting country ! 26 Hunting Sketches THE MAN WHO HUNTS AND NEVER JUMPS T he British public who do not hunt believe too much in the jumping of those who...

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...rt to be re- garded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprint... ...t years, I have received from many quarters in England, in Ireland, in the British colonies, and in the United States, a series of letters expressing ... ...much leisure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coexten... ... peril than any analogous one that has been proved to exist at Waterloo. A British surgeon, indeed, in a work of two octavo volumes, has endeavored to... ...ained blowing up of tumbrils, under the miserable purpose of shak- ing the British steadiness. But the evidences are not clear; whereas my brother ins... ...ich I witnessed, as the most splendid I may mention an installation of the Knights of St. Patrick. There were six knights installed on this occa- sion... ...is ceremony; but that plan was laid aside, on learning that the other five knights were to be attended by adults; and thus, from being partakers as ac... ...e whole ceremonial, except that some fool- ish person laughed aloud as the knights went up with their offerings to the altar; the object of this unfee...

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...; the lighter minded may read and mark the temper of Professor Case in the British Encyclopaedia, article Logic (Vol. XXX.). I have appended to his bo... ...on. T o us, clad as we are in mountain-soiled tweeds and with no money but British bank- notes negotiable only at a practically infinite distance, thi... ...f labour. This most excellent idea does, as a matter of fact, underlie the British institution of the work- house, but it is jumbled up with the relie... ...of begging. 94 A Modern Utopia There will need to be, in the place of the British casual wards, simple but comfortable inns with a low tariff—con- tr... ... of the Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank.... ... and with a woven purple hem. His general effect reminds me somehow of the Knights T emplars. On his head is a cap of thin leather and still thinner s... ...e about these samurai, who remind me of Plato’s guard- ians, who look like Knights T emplars, who bear a name that recalls the swordsmen of Japan … an...

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...her’s house, now a flourishing and stirring establishment, in South Place, Knightsbridge, where, under the warmth of increasing revenue and suc- cess,... ... “To Anthony Sterling, Esq., 24th Regiment, Dublin. “Knightsbridge, 10th Nov., 1829. “My Dear Anthony,—Here in the Capital of En... ...d, or almost of a gay though perilous tourna- ment, and bout of “A hundred knights against all com- ers,”—was maintained by Sterling and his friends. ... ...t has got notice of what is going on; the Spanish Envoy, and of course the British Foreign Sec- retary, and of course also the Thames Police. Armed me... ... p. xli. 72 The Life of John Sterling “To Mrs. Sterling, South Place, Knightsbridge, London. “Brighton, St. Vincent,, 28th August, ... ...r,—his poor followers reduced to extremity of impatience and distress; the British Gov- ernor too, though not unfriendly to him, obliged to frown. As ... ...o anything. The fated, gallant-minded, but too headlong man. At length the British Governor himself was obliged, in official decency and as is thought... ...tter ending. It is said, he offered Torrijos and his people passports, and British protection, to any country of the world except Spain: Torrijos did ... ...d no- ticed them; it was from the Spanish Consul, next morn- ing, that the British Governor first heard they were gone. The British Governor knew noth...

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....’ 280 ‘Not so, by Heaven!’ (he answers in a rage); ‘Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.’ ‘So vast a throng th... ...Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 31 90 ‘Our humbler province is to tend the fair,... ...’d, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interpre... ...linda now, whom thirst of fame invites, Burns to encounter two adventurous knights, At ombre singly to decide their doom, And swells her breast with c... ... While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach-and-six the British fair, As long as Atalantis 32 shall be read, Or the small pillow g... ...aming pour along, and rush into the Thames. Thou, too, great Father of the British floods! With joyful pride survey’st our lofty woods; Where towering... ... Be mine the blessings of a peaceful reign. No more my sons shall dye with British blood Red Iber’s sands, or Ister’s foaming flood: Safe on my shore ... ...you pass the imaginary sights Of lords, and earls, and dukes, and garter’d knights, While the spread fan o’ershades your closing eyes; Then give one f...

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...n to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional,... ...ef of Owyhee or Tongataboo should proclaim a momentary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign ... ...n echo—or to ascend by so much as an infantine susurrus to the ears of the British Neptune. Parthia, it is true, might pretend to the dignity of an em... ...t modern empires, doubtless, the Spanish of the sixteenth century, and the British of the present, can- not but be admired as prodigious growths out o... ...est title of Commentaries, he meant to offer the records of his Gallic and British campaigns, simply as notes, or memoranda, afterwards to be worked u... ...s, as it appeared by the event, that in this singular tumult, twenty Roman knights, 54 The Cæsars and as many mothers of families, were cudgelled to ... ...xes, the first prince of this race, sent an embassy of four hundred select knights, enjoining the Roman emperor to content himself with Europe, and to...