随笔分类 - 狄更斯的英国史
摘要：The ministers and courtiers made out [编出] that his Sowship, by a direct miracle from Heaven, found out what this letter meant. The truth is, that they
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摘要：They found it dismal [凄凉的] work alone there, underground, with such a fearful secret on their minds, and so many murders before them. They were filled
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摘要：His object was, when the King, lords, and commons, should [表推测] be assembled at the next opening of Parliament, to blow them up, one and all, with a g
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摘要：His Sowship's prime Minister, Cecil (for I cannot do better than call his majesty what his favourite called him), was the enemy of Sir Walter Raleigh,
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摘要：CHAPTER 32 ENGLAND UNDER JAMES THE FIRST 'Our cousin of Scotland' was ugly, awkward, and shuffling both in mind and person. His tongue was much too la
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摘要：In this case, as in the cases of the Duke of Norfolk and Mary Queen of Scots, the Queen had commanded, and countermanded [撤销], and again commanded, th
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摘要：He was a man who could find comfort and occupation [时间的占用] in his books, and he did so for a time; not the least happy time, I dare say, of his life.
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摘要：Though the Spanish king had had this bitter taste of English bravery, he was so little the wiser for it, as still to entertain [willing to consider] h
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摘要：THIRD PART On its being formally made known to Elizabeth that the sentence had been executed on the Queen of Scots, she showed the utmost grief and ra
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摘要：She, feeling sure that her time was now come, wrote a letter to the Queen of England, making three entreaties; first, that she might be buried in Fran
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摘要：At home, intelligence [情报] of plots began to thicken every day. I suppose the people never did live under such continual terrors as those by which the
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摘要：I must say that for a Queen who made all those fine speeches, of which I have confessed myself to be rather tired, about living and dying a Maiden Que
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摘要：It is called in history, The Massacre of Saint Bartholomew, because it took place on Saint Bartholomew's Eve. The day fell on Saturday the twenty-thir
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摘要：On the very day when Felton was brought to his trial, the poor Duke of Norfolk was released. It would have been well for him if he had kept away from
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摘要：SECOND PART When Mary Queen of Scots arrived in England, without money and even without any other clothes than those she wore, she wrote to Elizabeth,
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摘要：Such guilty unions seldom prosper. This husband and wife had lived together but [only] a month, when they were separated for ever by the successes of
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摘要：Within a day or two, she gained her husband over, and prevailed [劝说] on the tall idiot to abandon the conspirators and fly [flee] with her to Dunbar.
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摘要：Divers [several] princes proposed to marry Mary, but the English court had reasons for being jealous of them all, and even proposed as a matter of pol
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摘要：Elizabeth had been Queen three years, when Mary Queen of Scots embarked at Calais for her own rough, quarrelling country. As she came out of the harbo
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摘要：The one great trouble of this reign, and the unfortunate cause of the greater part of such turmoil and bloodshed as occurred in it, was Mary Stuart, Q
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