A Noble Purpose Nobly Won: An Old, Old Story, Tập 1

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A. Hall, Virtue and Company, 1862

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Trang 31 - Ah, princes, prelates, valiant lords, Lawyers and tradesfolk, small and great ! Burghers and warriors girt with swords, Who fatten on our daily sweat ! To labouring hinds some comfort give : Whate'er betide, we needs must live. But live we cannot long, we trow, If God deny his powerful aid Against the poor man's...
Trang 112 - I am come here,' said the Maid, ' to ask of the Sire de Baudricourt to send me before the Dauphin : he has no care for me, or for words of mine ; and yet it is needful that before Mid-Lent I should stand in the Dauphin's presence, should I even in reaching him wear through my feet, and have to crawl upon my knees. For no one upon this earth, neither King, nor Duke, nor daughter of King of Scots,* no one but myself is appointed to recover this realm of France.
Trang 112 - ... presence, should I even in reaching him wear through my feet, and have to crawl upon my knees. For no one upon this earth, neither King, nor Duke, nor daughter of King of Scots,* no one but myself is appointed to recover this realm of France. Yet I would more willingly remain to spin by the side of my poor mother, for war seems no work for me. But go I must, because the Lord my Master so wills it.' ' And who is the Lord your Master?' said Jean de Metz. 'The King of Heaven,
Trang 177 - In the name of God," Joan answered, " it is no other but yourself. Moat noble Lord Dauphin, I am Joan, the maid, sent on the part of God to aid you and your kingdom ; and by his command I announce to you that you shall be crowned in the city of Eheims, and shall become his lieutenant in the realm of France.
Trang 3 - ... au couvert d'une chambre, et faut que cet » arbre aye pour le moins trois cents ans , qui est une merveille de
Trang 3 - Les branches de ce fau sont toutes rondes, et rendent une belle et grande ombre pour s'abriter dessous, comme presque 1'on feroit au couvert d'une chambre. Et faut que cet arbre aye pour le moins trois cents ans, qui est une merveille de nature.
Trang 177 - Gentle Dauphin,' she added shortly afterwards, ' why will you not believe me ? I tell you that God has pity upon you, upon your kingdom, and upon your people ; for St. Louis and Charlemagne are on their knees before him, praying for you and for them.
Trang 18 - ... any great mischief to the French, they were soon completely defeated. About eighteen hundred English were left dead on the field, and from one hundred to six score made prisoners, the principal of whom were the lords Scales, Talbot, Hungerford, sir Thomas Rampstone and several more. Some of the great lords were killed, and the rest were people of low degree, of the same sort as those whom they were accustomed to bring from their own country to die in France.
Trang 109 - Johanna quod ipse presbyter apporteverat stolam, et cor am dicto capitaneo eam adjuraverat dicendo sibi, quod si esset mala res, quod recederet ab eis, et si bona, veniret juxta ipsos.
Trang 194 - ... défendre ; les sujets les plus dévoués étaient prêts à se livrer au désespoir; des calamités horribles, la misère , la famine , les maladies ravageaient les provinces des bords de la Loire. Il n'y avait plus d'argent ni dans le trésor du roi ni dans la bourse des sujets. « Tant de la pécune du roi que de la » mienne, il n'y avait pas en tout, chez moi , quatre écus, » racontait Renault de Bouligny, son trésorier 8.

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