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...dered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor. All the monarchs of the Norman 5 Sir Walter Scott race had shown the most marked p... ...ingsburgh, a personage, who, on account of his descent from the last Saxon monarchs of England, was held in the highest respect by all the Saxon nativ... ...ter- tained the valiant and unfortunate Harold, then advancing against the Norwegians, who had united themselves to the rebel T osti. It was in this h... ...ore.’ “The hall rung with acclamations, and cup and horn was filled to the Norwegian, who should be speedily in posses- sion of his English territory.... ... more of his kingdom, than the share which he allotted in his wrath to the Norwegian invader? — Who would have thought that you, noble Athelstane—that... ...other to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, during her early residence for education in England,... ...possessed and prac- tised the medical science in all its branches, and the monarchs and powerful barons of the time frequently committed them- selves ... ...ess, is still shown to the curious traveller, was furiously contested. One Norwegian long defended it by his single arm, and was at length pierced wit... ...nother the “Battle flats.” From a tradition that the weapon with which the Norwegian champion was slain, resembled a pear, or, as others say, that the...

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...rit ain; succeeded to the throne of Wessex; con quered some of the other monarchs of the seven kingdoms; added their territories to his own; and, fo... ..., but of a strong mind. And his armies fought the Northmen, the Danes, and Norwegians, or the Sea Kings, as they were called, and beat them for the ti... ... was a vassal of Harold Hardrada , King of Norway. This brother, and this Norwegian King, joining their forces against England, with Duke William’s h... ...such a fight King Harold led against that force, that his brother, and the Norwegian King, and every chief of note in all their host, except the Norwe... ... his head, he swore to govern the English as well as the best of their own monarchs. I dare say you think, as I do, that if we except the Great Alfred... ... important now that the King himself should be married; and divers foreign Monarchs, not very particular about the character of their son in law, prop...

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...d waistcoat, exposed a large measure of chest to flaws of a wind barbed on Norwegian peaks by the brewers of cough and catarrh—horrid women of the whi... ...yal moral English for the numer- ous offspring of the peccadillos of their monarchs. These things pass muster from being ‘Britannically cocooned in th...

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...r. Anderson but to get chalked upon his spade in snow-white copy-book characters, hungry! and to sit down here. Yes; one thing more remained to Mr. An... ...g the stacks of timber would be a convenient kind of travelling in foreign countries—among the forests of North America, the sodden Honduras swamps, t...

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...he Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times! And who pronounced our glowing eulog... ...arge-eyed, small-headed, bluff-chested, and with the dignity of a thousand monarchs in his lofty , overscorning carriage. He was the elected Xerxes of... ...s of years, by Semiramis, by Porus, by Hannibal, and by all the successive monarchs of the East—if they still survive there in great numbers, much mor...

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...oan Was heard—she trembled like one aspen pale Among the gloomy pines of a Norwegian vale. 7. 7. 7. 7. 7. What were his thoughts linked in the morning... ...me serpent, that poor shadow, France, Cry peace, and that means death when monarchs speak. Ho, there! bring torches, sharpen those red stakes, _...

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...nd about Lord Cochrane’s waters; then as swiftly back. For, like the frail Norwegian bark on the edge of the maelstrom, liker to a country of conflict... ...eptable triangle, and eyes and mouth could be what she pleased for mice or monarchs. M. Livret did not gainsay the impeachment of her by a great Frenc...

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...rs the regard paid to certain forms of conventional de- cency. For, if the monarchs of Europe have been de- rided for addressing each other as “brothe... ...ll hands, is the heritage of democracy. In the ceremonial brother- hood of monarchs the reality of blood-ties, for what little it is worth, acted ofte... ...dy to do their duty by the flag under which they served. The majority were Norwegians, whose courage and straightness of character are matters beyond ... ... two million dollars nailed (or more likely pasted) to the foremast of the Norwegian than I am, who don’t believe that the Storstad is worth two milli... ...ances, a couple of simple and ef- fective cork-fenders—or on board of that Norwegian either? There must have been, since one ship was just out of a do...

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...ediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of whom I... ...rry. Napoleon constructing a galaxy of generals and courtiers, and even of monarchs, out of his collection of social nobod- ies; Julius Caesar appoint... ...oundrels have been beneficent rulers whilst amiable and privately harmless monarchs have ruined their countries by trusting to the hocus-pocus of inno...

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...e, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! y... ...gs. But the sweetness of mercy brew’d bitter destruction, and the frighten’d monarchs come back, Each comes in state with his train, hangman, priest, ... ...Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. The homeward bound and the outward bound, The beautiful...

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...ains in her spotty Globe. His Spear, to equal which the tallest Pine Hewn on NORWEGIAN hills, to be the Mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand, H... ...strous twilight sheds On half the Nations, and with fear of change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark’n’d so, yet shon Above them all th’ Arch Angel: but his f...