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...d died after a few years. The adventure of Edward with the outlaw of Alton Wood is one of the stock anecdotes of history, and many years ago the roman... ...eggar of Bethnal Green, gives the framework. That ballad is believed to be Elizabethan in date, and the manners therein certainly are scarcely accorda... ... Who wanderest here so free?’ “‘Oh, I’m one that will walk the green green woods, Nor ever ask leave of thee.’” —S. M. A FINE EVENING—six centuries a... ...M. A FINE EVENING—six centuries ago—shed a bright parting light over Alton Wood, illuminating the gray lichens that clung to the rugged trunks of the ... ...tty Bessee’s marriage-portion shall be a heavier bag of gold than the Lady Elizabeth de Montfort would gather by all the aids due to her father from h... ...t, that judg- ment, mercy, faith, and the subject’s welfare, were the pri- mary duties of a sovereign—an idea only now and then glimpsed by the feudal... ... readily. So he trusted to this fascination in the case of the little Lady Elizabeth. He held out his hands to her, and claimed her as his cousin; and...

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...Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modern Broo... ...rsity. 3 Yo n g e Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For By Charlotte Mary Yonge CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I T T T T TOR OR... ..., Paulina asked whether it meant being as well off as the Colonel and Lady Mary - “Who keep a carriage and pair, and a butler,” interposed V era. “Oh ... ...up all white and silvery in the middle, and above the house and garden was wood, not of fine trees, and interspersed with rocks, but giving shade and ... ... peeping in sight, and red cattle feeding in one, and above the same rocky woodland, meeting the other at the quarry; and then after a little cascade ... ...hancel was fee- bly fitted after the ideas of the “fifties,” but the faded wood- work of the nave was intact, and Magdalen still had to sit in the gri... ... and neighbourhood generally. Two ladies had been secured for the purpose, Elizabeth Merrifield and Miss Arthuret, and the former arrived on the Satur... ...fter the death of their parents, about three years previ- ously, Susan and Elizabeth had gone to live at Coalham, and to be useful to their brother Da... ...ne. There he sat enthroned on the platform, with portraits of himself, his Elizabethan ancestor, and the Prince of Wales overhead, and, in propria per...

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...inferior in his foreign to what he was in his domestic policy as was Queen Elizabeth. He is chiefly familiar to us as failing to keep up his authority... ...r to us as failing to keep up his authority in Flanders after the death of Mary of Burgundy, as lingering to fulfil his engagement with Anne of Britta... ...were the Kaisar’s own, communicated by himself, and he superin- tended the wood-cuts. The name is explained to mean “crav- ing glory,”—Gloriaememor. T... ..., Konig Romreich is seen on his back dying in a garden, and Ehrenreich (as Mary really did) despatches a ring to sum- mon her betrothed. But here Theu... ...her book, “pondering these things in her heart.” All around were blocks of wood and carvings in varying states of progress—some scarcely shaped out, a... ...from the press. Nay, Master Gottfried had made experiments in printing and wood-engraving on his own account, and had found no head so intelligent, no... ...d Sir Kasimir, who had met many of the exiles of the Roses at the court of Mary of Burgundy; and then he turned to discuss with the guildmasters the i...

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... with him, saying - ‘We may breathe here a moment; there is shelter in the wood. And you, Rab, get ye up to the top of Jill’s Knowe, and keep a good l... ...n face and big sil- ver ear-rings, seated himself on the bench at the long wooden table under the great garland of fir-boughs, willow catkins, and pri... ... in my ears for many a year! Here, lad!’ and dropping a gold coin into the wooden bowl carried round by the blind minstrel’s attendant, he was turning... ...aris, where young James Kennedy—son to Sir James Kennedy of Dunure, and to Mary, an elder sister of the King—was studying with ex- ceeding zeal. Both ... ... the frost of the December night for a man whose mother, the fair and wise Mary de Bohun, had died in early youth from disease of the lungs. James and... ...uely beneath the archway of its tower up to the hall of the college of St. Mary Winton, then really New College. He had been residing there with Dr. B... ...now so well as Hotspur’s gentle Kate (only that unfortunately her name was Elizabeth); fondling, teasing, being fondled and teased in return, and then...

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... parody the 4 ABBEYCHURCH CHAPTER I. ONE SUMMER AFTERNOON, Helen Woodbourne returned from her daily walk with her sisters, and immediately r... ...me by the railroad.’ At this moment, the door was thrown back hastily, and Elizabeth, the elder sister of Katherine and Helen, darted in, looking full... ...aid Helen. ‘All that they can touch, all that depends upon sympathy,’ said Elizabeth. ‘Well, but I do not see—’ said Katherine. ‘No, no,’ said Elizabe... ...’ ‘Pray keep the same opinion of her all the time she is here, Kate,’ said Elizabeth; ‘but I know you too well to trust you. I only know they will kee... ... As soon as Elizabeth had finished winding her skein, she hastened to Mrs. Woodbourne, and found no great diffi- culty in gaining her consent to the p... ...form her of the change of day, and invite her to share her room. Elizabeth Woodbourne and Anne Merton were first cous- ins, and nearly of the same age... ...to write to her brother. 15 CHARLOTTE M YONGE CHAPTER II. ABBEYCHURCH ST. MARY’S was a respectable old town, situ- ated at the foot of St. Austin’s H... ...long ears.”’ ‘Perhaps she meant it as a compliment,’ said Anne; ‘you know, Mary of Scotland says, that “Sovereigns ought to have long ears.”’ ‘I suppo... ...old Mr. Dillon offering Winifred his best variegated dahlia, by name Dod’s Mary.’ ‘Mr. Dillon!’ exclaimed Katherine; ‘I thought he never gave away his...

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...ven see such a room ?” “No; I slept in the attic with the maid at old Aunt Mary’s, and always in a cubicle after I went to the asylum. Some of the gir... ...home, she freely chatted to Mrs. Brownlow, who was always ready to hear of Mary Ogilvie and Clara Cartwright, and liked to draw out the stories of the... ... with grave humour, “that your children are at their present growth in the Elizabethan age of culture—” But again began a “Well, but papa!” but, he ex... ...hs and groans at the holiday tasks that lay before him. “Here’s an answer, Mary. What was Magna Charta? The first map of the world.” “Who’s that ingen... ...ose, to the Papal Bull. Here’s a third! The French fleet defeated by Queen Elizabeth. Most have passed it over entirely.” “Well, you know this is the ... ...e had been checked by extensive private grounds. There were very beautiful woods coming almost close to the town, and in the absence of the owner, a g... ..., of the smiling primrose of that inimitable tint it only wears in its own woodland nest; and when Allen lighted on a bed of wood-sorrel, with its sca... ...s not immediately to be found; and their progress was further impeded by a wood-pigeon dwelling impressively on the notes “Take two cows, Taffy; Taffy... ...was opened, a flourish on a tin trum- pet was heard, and out darted, in an Elizabethan ruff and cap, a respectable Dorking mother of the yard, cacklin...

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...s had known and felt of this Universe. Which agrees, add they, with a pri- mary law of human nature, still everywhere observably at work, though in le... ... or god, that bit you sharply when you touched it, and that lived upon dry wood. From us too no Chemistry, if it had not Stupidity to help it, would h... ... we still say “the steam coach,” “four-horse coach,” or the like. All pri- mary adjectives, according to Smith, were formed in this way; were at first... ...r whom. Among the Northland Sovereigns, too, I find some who got the title Wood-cutter; Forest-felling Kings. Much lies in that. I suppose at bottom m... ... earth, becomes a new root; and so, in endless complexity, we have a whole wood, a whole jungle, one seed the parent of it all. Was not the whole Nors... ...of Mahomet, if such were never so well proved against him, shake this pri- mary fact about him. On the whole, we make too much of faults; the details ... ... that strange outbudding of our whole English Existence, which we call the Elizabethan Era, did not it too come as of its own accord? The “Tree Igdras... ...pread the highest Heaven!— In some sense it may be said that this glorious Elizabethan Era with its Shakspeare, as the outcome and flowerage of all wh... ... him forth; taking small thought of Acts of Parliament. King Henrys, Queen Elizabeths go their way; and Nature too goes hers. Acts of Parliament, on t...

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...k, though he could set the young- ster galloping. Nevil wandered about the woods of Steynham, disinclined to shoot and lend a hand to country sports. ... ...ken ill of. ‘ All the men of that family are heartless, and he is a man of wood, my dear, and a bad man,’ the old lady said. ‘He should have kept you ... ...ence, however, that these decried the woman’s vi- cious arts, and Mistress Elizabeth Mary Beauchamp put all the sin upon the man. Such a man! she said... ...ver, that these decried the woman’s vi- cious arts, and Mistress Elizabeth Mary Beauchamp put all the sin upon the man. Such a man! she said. ‘Let me ... ... young Blackburn Tuckham, the lawyer, was issue. He took his leave of Mrs. Elizabeth Beauchamp, respecting her for her constitutional health and brigh... .... You look on men from your own elevation as upon a quantity of our little wooden images, unto whom you affix puny characteristics, under restrictions... ... lord? Her no- tions of the conduct of the Press were primitive. In a sum- mary of the article Beauchamp was treated as naughty boy, formerly brave bo... ...ity and what the law al- lows them. His manners have improved. Your cousin Mary seems to like him: it struck me when I saw them together. Cecilia! one...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid R...

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...certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delinea- tion of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ... ...pt something similar respecting “her sister and her foe,” the cel- ebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap- proached the task with... ... personage, and singularly well featured, being a great favourite to Queen Elizabeth, it was thought, and commonly reported, that had he been a bachel... ...rincipal men of the University of Ox- ford) her body to be reburied in St, Mary’s Church in Ox- ford, with great pomp and solemnity. It is remarkable,... ...n three or four miles of Ox- ford, boasted, during the eighteenth of Queen Elizabeth, an excellent inn of the old stamp, conducted, or rather ruled, b... ...choice, were counted but as a cup of bastard at the Groyne, or at Port St. Mary’s. You should travel, mine host, if you would be deep in the mysteries... ...hat would be but renewing an old intimacy, for Mike’s shins and the town’s wooden pinfold have been well known to each other ere now,” said the mercer... ...hony Foster. The village of Cumnor is pleasantly built on a hill, and in a wooded park closely adjacent was situated the ancient man- sion occupied at... ... grass, and, in one or two places, interrupted by piles of withered brush- wood, which had been lopped from the trees cut down in the neighbouring par...

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..., I dare say it would do.” And Rachel leant back, applied her- self to her wood carving, and virtually retired from the dis- cussion. “One sister is a... ... being above its ac- ceptance, but he was not, and she was thankful that a wood path offend itself, leading through the Homestead planta- tions away f... ...nd, On a mission, on a mission, T o declare the coming vision.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “WELL, GRACE, all things considered, perhaps I ... ...over-limbed creature, until at last it kindly rested for a moment with its wooden peg of a body sloping, and most of its thread-like members prone upo... ...comprehension, that she held her peace. Rachel and Grace united in sending Mary Morris, the other child; they really could do nothing more, so heavily... ... only pain and vexation, an example of the sort of match he likes to make. Mary, the other daughter, was the favourite, and used to her own way, and s... ...lty, but made quiet answer. “I had rather see it settled as a provision on Mary and her children.” Lord Keith growled something about minding his own ... ...st advan- tage there,” Rachel could not help exclaiming, as at that moment Elizabeth Keith smiled at them, as she floated past, her airy white draperi... ...t exactly. I have been cast about the world too long not to be thankful.” “Elizabeth!” “Do not look so very much surprised,” she said, in her sweet pl...

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...................................................... 55 The Way Through the Woods ........................................................................ ...d Dan and Una would find the strangest sort of persons in their gardens or woods. In the stories that follow I am trying to tell something about those... ... and fern of Pook’s Hill, and they heard the cock-pheasants crowing in the woods be- hind them. ‘No use!’ said Dan, questing like a puzzled hound. ‘Th... ...be!) ‘Here is Bread and here is Wine—sit and sup with me. Eat and drink in Mary’s Name, the whiles I do recall How Iron—Cold Iron —can be master of me... ...safe home to come back to.’ ‘And what was she called?’ ‘Gloriana—Belphoebe—Elizabeth of England.’ Her voice changed at each word. ‘You mean Queen Bess... ...ands passes belief! If I had been a man, and a woman had played with me as Elizabeth played with Philip, I would have—’ She nipped off one of the Virg... ... make one for you. Watch! You are to imagine that she—Gloriana, Belphoebe, Elizabeth—has gone on a progress to Rye to comfort her sad heart (maids are... ...all! The Queen was in her chamber, a-combing of her hair, There came Queen Mary’s spirit and it stood behind her chair, Singing, ‘Backwards and forwar... ...omen to Hamull on the Hoke in the countie of Suthampton. For there lay the Mary of the T ower, his ship of war so strong, And he would discover, certa...

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...Excerpt: ?Let the boys have it if they like it,? said Mrs. Garrow, pleading to her only daughter on behalf of her two sons. ?Pray don?t, mamma,? said Elizabeth Garrow. ?It only means romping. To me all that is detestable, and I am sure it is not the sort of thing that Miss Holmes would like.? ?We always had it at Christmas when we were young.? ?But, mamma, the world is so ...

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... to her only daughter on behalf of her two sons. “Pray don’t, mamma,” said Elizabeth Garrow. “It only means romping. To me all that is detestable, and... ... mistletoe which Frank Garrow had brought home with him out of the Lowther woods be hung up on Christmas Eve in the dining-room at Thwaite Hall, accor... ...Frank, “I’d ask my father. He wouldn’t give way to such nonsense, I know.” Elizabeth turned away without answering, and left the room. Her eyes were f... ...ster Kate, was coming from Penrith to spend the Christmas at Thwaite Hall. Elizabeth left the room with her slow, graceful step, hiding her tears,—hid... ...er Eamont, on the Westmoreland side of the river, looking over to a lovely wooded bank in Cumberland. All the world knows that the Eamont runs out of ... ...ut aid from oars or paddles. From the opposite side a path led through the woods and across the fields to Penrith, and this was the route commonly use... ...much. “Mamma,” she said, “could I not make some excuse and go away to Aunt Mary?” “What now?” “Yes, mamma; now; to-morrow. I need not say that it will... ... will be better.” “What will papa say?” “You must tell him all.” “And Aunt Mary must be told also. You would not like that. Has he said anything?” “No...

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...ellynch Hall. “W alter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county o... ...k, in the county of Gloucester, by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, ... ...ne 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, November 5, 1789; Mary, born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally ... ... the information of himself and his family, these words, after the date of Mary’s birth—”Married, December 16, 1810, Charles, son and heir of Charles ... ...lty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duod... ...ignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo page... ...watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, ... ...ferent plight, were contrasted with some few articles of a rare species of wood, excellently worked up, and with something curious and valuable from a...

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...er resentfully, “since we are not to visit.” “But you forget, mamma,” said Elizabeth, “that we shall meet him at the assemblies, and that Mrs. Long pr... ...d on them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great b... ... lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts.” Mary wished to say something sensible, but knew not how. “While Mary is adj... ...ed into particular resentment by his having slighted one of her daughters. Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit dow... ...uce you.” “Which do you mean?” and turning round he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said: “She... ... mother could be, though in a quieter way. Elizabeth felt Jane’s pleasure. Mary had heard herself mentioned to Miss Bingley as the most accomplished g... ...ut it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.” Elizabeth said no more— but her mind could not acqui... ...t in one of its lowest points, and drove for some time through a beautiful wood stretching over a wide extent. Elizabeth’s mind was too full for conve... ...and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situ- ate...

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...ice of it. “Books, pic- tures, china, manuscripts, and the very chair that Mary Queen of Scots sat in when she heard of Darnley’s mur- der. I must lie... ...ER IV At about nine o’clock at night, on every alternate Wednes- day, Miss Mary Datchet made the same resolve, that she would never again lend her roo... ...t, or to discuss art, or to reform the State, had a way of suggesting that Mary had better be asked to lend them her rooms. She always met the request... ...s like a room on the stage. Who is it to-night?” “William Rodney, upon the Elizabethan use of meta- phor. I expect a good solid paper, with plenty of ... ...began very rapidly in high-strained tones: “In undertaking to speak of the Elizabethan use of meta- phor in poetry—” All the different heads swung sli... ... one in another group was saying. Rodney, meanwhile, was talking about the Elizabethan dramatists. He was a curious-looking man since, upon first sigh... ...le, and the china made regular circles of deep blue upon the shining brown wood. In the middle there was a bowl of tawny red and yellow chrysanthemums... ...sphere which, in country lanes, would now have been soft with the smoke of wood fires; and on both sides of the road the shop windows were full of spa... ..., and reading half a stanza to himself. “Ahem! The Princess is lost in the wood, and she hears the sound of a horn. (This would all be very pretty on ...

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...ble summer’s day. There was not a cloud; the sunshine was baking; yet in the woody river valleys among which we wound our way, the atmosphere preserve... ...t had an inland sweetness and variety to one newly from the sea; it smelt of woods, rivers, and the delved earth. These, though in so far a country, w... ...se the reader has some notion of an American railroad-car, that long, narrow wooden box, like a flat-roofed Noah’s ark, with a stove and a convenience... ... clearer, but not change the spelling. 26 Across the Plains “My dear Sister Mary, – I am afraid you will go nearly crazy when you read my letter. If ... ...impses of the moon, or could I myself climb backward to the spacious days of Elizabeth. But in the second case, I should most likely pretermit these q... ...nd hires and drugs a 124 Across the Plains babe, and poisons life with poor Mary Ann or long, long ago; he knows what he is about when he loads the c...

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...e those of his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indians would elect him Sachem;” and his lordship was pleased to... ... passed thence through the music-gallery, long since dismantled, and Queen Elizabeth’s Rooms, in the clock-tower, and out into the terrace, where was ... ...to the terrace, where was a fine prospect of sunset and the great darkling woods with a cloud of rooks returning; and the plain and river with Castlew... ... shine; and a great army of rooks, wheeling over their heads, made for the woods behind the house, as Harry saw; and Mr. Holt told him that they lived... ...isited. Indeed, the chamber was richly or- namented in the manner of Queen Elizabeth’s time, with great 29 Thackeray stained windows at either end, a... ...THE IMPRIS- ONMENT OF HIS VISCOUNTESS AT FIRST MY LADY WA S FOR DYING like Mary, Queen of Scots (to whom she fancied she bore a resemblance in beauty)... ...is country against the authority of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary—and my orders are to search the house for such papers or traces of the... ...k in; and though she repeatedly de- sired to be led out to execution, like Mary Queen of Scots, there never was any thought of taking her painted old ...

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...ings in the town; and these were miserable hovels, with roofs of straw and wooden chimneys. The passengers in the fleet either built huts with bark an... ... is hoeing in his field of In dian corn. Here comes a huntsman out of the woods, drag ging a bear which he has shot, and shouting to the neighbors t... ...ld a house for Lady Arbella and himself. Boston was then covered with wild woods, and had fewer inhabitants, even, than Salem. During her husband’s ab... ...Netherlands. Grandfather, for aught I know, might have gone on to speak of Maryland and Virginia; for the good old gentleman really seemed to suppose ... ...em, but was reprieved on condition of her leaving the colony. Her name was Mary Dyer. In the year 1660 she re turned to Boston, although she knew dea... ...an inci dent had then taken place which connects her with our story. This Mary Dyer had entered the mint master’s dwelling, clothed in sackcloth and ... ...New England as that which Old England had experienced in the days of Queen Elizabeth, when the Spanish Armada was wrecked upon her coast. “In 1747,” p...

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...Adam Bede by George Eliot [pseudonym of Mary Anne Evans] A PENN STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Adam... ... STAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Adam Bede by George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... there, busy upon doors and window-frames and wainscoting. A scent of pine-wood from a tentlike pile of planks outside the open door mingled itself wi... ...e tallest of the five workmen, who was carving a shield in the centre of a wooden mantelpiece. It was to this workman that the strong barytone belonge... ...or, took the key out, and carried it to the house on the other side of the woodyard. It was a low house, with smooth grey thatch and buff walls, looki... ...d been banished for the last three genera- tions—mouldy portraits of Queen Elizabeth and her ladies, General Monk with his eye knocked out, Daniel ver...

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... his feet. Flowed up tbe hill and down King William Street, To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.... ...into the laquearia, Stirring the pattern on the coffered ceiling. Huge sea-wood fed with copper Burned green and orange, framed by the coloured stone,... ... the Isle of Dogs. Weialala leia Wallala leialala Elizabeth and Leicester Beating oars ... ... turn. V. Gotterdammerung, III. i: the Rhine-daughters. 279. V. Froude, ELIZABETH, vol. I, ch. iv, letter of De Quadra to Philip of Spain: In the... ...- book of Birds of Eastern North America) ‘it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats … . Its notes are not remarkable for variety...