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Old and New London
… 1422, the corpse of that brave and chivalrous king, the hero of Agincourt, Henry V., was borne to its rest at … far as Temple Bar. The shadow of every monarch and popular hero since Charles II.'s time has rested for at least a … hats gaily to the crowd. Mr. James (Jemmy) Dawson, the hero of Shenstone's touching ballad, was one of the nine. As …
Old and New London
… celebrated chief cashier of the Bank, Abraham Newland, the hero of Dibdin's well-known song "Sham Abraham you may, But …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… Nearly a hundred years after his death he was the hero of a romance by Thomas Deloney, entitled 'The Pleasant …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and Rochester chroniclers and the 'deservedly honoured' hero of the Barnwell book. 52 His exaction of ploughing and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… The marriage of the Marquess of Granby, the popular hero of the Seven Years War, to the heiress of Cheveley had …
A History of the County of Warwick
… procession may have survived from the memory of a god or hero, representative of life and enemy of evil and death. The … Black figures, especially linked with the dragon-slaying hero, belonged to an Arabic wisdom cult. He also suggests … Myths, 159-62. The struggle between the monster and the hero is a universal theme in myth and romance: TurvillePetre, …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… erected in one year's time, as I find in the life of that hero, at page 89, which is become in much less time than this …