 | Voltaire - 1761 - 304 trang
...by-paths half fpent with hunger and fatigue, till he arrived in Staffbrdfhire. There he concealed himfelf a whole night and day, in the hollow of a large oak in the midft of a wood *, furrounded by Cromwell's foldiers, who were every where in fearch of him. The oak... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 trang
...bye-paths, halffpent with hunger and fatigue, till he arrived in Stafford fliire. There he concealed himfelf a whole night and day, in the hollow of a large oak in the midft of a wood*, furrounded by Cromwell's foldiers, who were every where in fearch of him. The oak... | |
 | L. M. Stretch - 1808 - 316 trang
...and fatigue, till he arrived in Staffordshire, where he concealed himself a whole night and day iu the hollow of a large oak in the midst of a wood, surrounded by Cromwell's soldiers, who were every where in search of him : the oak was to be seen at the beginning of this century . Astronomers... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 520 trang
...perilous days of the Parliamentary war, has more of the old leaven in it than -we altogether approve of. In the hollow of a large oak, in the midst of a wide, open forest, the cavalier is crouching and pressing to his lips the hand of her who has brought... | |
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The oak was still to be seen at the beginning of this century. Astronomers have given it a place among the constellations of the Southern pole, and have thus perpetuated the remembrance of these disasters. This prince, after wandering from village to... 