随笔分类 - 狄更斯的英国史
摘要：CHAPTER 7 ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS Harold was crowned King of England on the very day of the maudlin Confessor's
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摘要：The King was at first as blind and stubborn as kings usually have been whensoever [每当] they have been in the hands of monks. But the people rallied so
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摘要：But, although she was a gentle lady, in all things worthy to be beloved - good, beautiful, sensible, and kind - the King from the first neglected her.
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摘要：CHAPTER 6 ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR Canute left three sons, by name Sweyn, Harold, and Hardicanute; but his
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摘要：CHAPTER 5 ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE Canute reigned eighteen years. He was a merciless King at first. After he had clasped the hands of the Saxon c
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摘要：And indeed it did. For, the great army landing from the great fleet, near Exeter, went forward, laying England waste, and striking their lances in the
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摘要：At first, Elfrida possessed great influence over the young King, but, as he grew older and came of age, her influence declined. The infamous woman, no
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摘要：Then came the boy-king, Edgar, called the Peaceful, fifteen years old. Dunstan, being still the real king, drove all married priests out of the monast
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摘要：Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, was one of the most sagacious of these monks. He was an ingenious smith, and worked at a forge in a little cell.
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摘要：CHAPTER 4 ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS Athelstan, the son of Edward the Elder, succeeded [继任] that king. He reigned only fifteen year
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摘要：In the next reign, which was the reign of Edward, surnamed The Elder, who was chosen in council to succeed, a nephew of King Alfred troubled the count
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摘要：But, first, as it was important to know how numerous those pestilent Danes were, and how they were fortified, King Alfred, being a good musician, disg
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摘要：CHAPTER 3 ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED Alfred [born in 849 CE, 唐: 618年-907年] the Great was a young man, three-and-twenty years of age, when he
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摘要：After the death of Ethelbert, Edwin, King of Northumbria [公元616年，隋朝末年], who was such a good king that it was said a woman or child might openly carry
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摘要：It was a British Prince named Vortigern who took this resolution, and who made a treaty of friendship with Hengist and Horsa, two Saxon chiefs. Both o
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摘要：Above all, it was in the Roman time, and by means of Roman ships, that the Christian Religion was first brought into Britain, and its people first tau
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摘要：Still, the Britons would not yield. They rose again and again, and died by thousands, sword in hand. They rose, on every possible occasion. Suetonius,
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摘要：So, Julius Caesar came sailing over to this Island of ours, with eighty vessels and twelve thousand (不用复数) men. And he came from the French coast betw
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摘要：They made boats of basket-work, covered with the skins of animals, but seldom, if ever, ventured far from the shore. They made swords, of copper mixed
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摘要：A Child's History of England, by Charles Dickens (狄更斯) CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in th
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