随笔分类 - 狄更斯的英国史
摘要：SECOND PART That the Merry Monarch might be very merry indeed, in the merry times when his people were suffering under pestilence [瘟疫] and fire, he dr
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摘要：It broke out at a baker's shop near London Bridge, on the spot on which the Monument now stands as a remembrance of those raging flames. It spread and
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摘要：Through the months of July and August and September, the Great Plague raged more and more. Great fires were lighted in the streets, in the hope of sto
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摘要：For, this was the year and the time of the Great Plague in London. During the winter of one thousand six hundred and sixty-four it had been whispered
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摘要：The Merry Monarch was so exceedingly merry among these merry ladies, and some equally merry (and equally infamous) lords and gentlemen, that he soon g
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摘要：Of course, the remains of Oliver's wife and daughter were not to be spared either, though they had been most excellent women. The base clergy of that
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摘要：CHAPTER 35 ENGLAND UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND, CALLED THE MERRY MONARCH There never were such profligate [恣意挥霍的] times in England as under Charles the S
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摘要：He had appointed his son Richard to succeed him, and after there had been, at Somerset House in the Strand, a lying in state more splendid than sensib
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摘要：One of Oliver's own friends, the Duke of Oldenburgh, in sending him a present of six fine coach-horses, was very near doing more to please the Royalis
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摘要：Over and above all this, Oliver found that the Vaudois, or Protestant people of the valleys of Lucerne, were insolently [rude and not showing any resp
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摘要：These were not all his foreign triumphs. He sent a fleet to sea against the Dutch; and the two powers, each with one hundred ships upon its side, met
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摘要：SECOND PART Oliver Cromwell - whom the people long called Old Noll - in accepting the office of Protector, had bound himself by a certain paper which
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摘要：They formed a new Council of State [国事会] after this extraordinary proceeding [event], and got a new Parliament together in their own way: which Oliver
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摘要：Ireland being now subdued, and Scotland kept quiet by plenty of forts and soldiers put there by Oliver, the Parliament would have gone on quietly enou
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摘要：After this, he walked and walked until his feet were all blistered; and, having been concealed all one day in a house which was searched by the troope
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摘要：To gratify the Scottish Parliament, and preserve their favour, Charles had signed a declaration they laid before him, reproaching the memory [sth that
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摘要：Oliver had been appointed by the Parliament to command the army in Ireland, where he took a terrible vengeance [复仇] for the sanguinary [血腥的]rebellion,
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摘要：CHAPTER 34 ENGLAND UNDER OLIVER CROMWELL Before sunset on the memorable day on which King Charles the First was executed, the House of Commons passed
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摘要：He was not at all afraid to die; but he was anxious to die easily. When some one touched the axe while he was speaking, he broke off [suddenly stop ta
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摘要：Notwithstanding [in spite of] all, the warrant [令] for the execution was this day signed. There is a story that as Oliver Cromwell went to the table w
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