随笔分类 - 狄更斯的英国史
摘要：CHAPTER 31 ENGLAND UNDER ELIZABETH There was great rejoicing all over the land when the Lords of the Council went down to Hatfield, to hail [拥戴] the P
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摘要：Cranmer remained still alive and in prison. He was brought out again in February, for more examining and trying, by Bonner, Bishop of London: another
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摘要：The next day, Hooper, who was to be burnt at Gloucester, was brought out to take his last journey, and was made to wear a hood over his face that he m
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摘要：It would seem that Philip, the Prince of Spain, was a main cause of this change in Elizabeth's fortunes. He was not an amiable man, being, on the cont
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摘要：In the danger of this rebellion, the Queen showed herself to be a woman of courage and spirit. She disdained [不屑理会] to retreat to any place of safety,
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摘要：It came on fast. A Parliament was got together; not without strong suspicion of unfairness; and they annulled the divorce, formerly pronounced by Cran
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摘要：After a ten days' dream of royalty, Lady Jane Grey resigned the Crown with great willingness, saying that she had only accepted it in obedience to her
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摘要：CHAPTER 30 ENGLAND UNDER MARY The Duke of Northumberland was very anxious to keep the young King's death a secret, in order that he might get the two
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摘要：Many of the bystanders [旁观者] rushed forward and steeped [浸泡] their handkerchiefs in his blood, as a mark of their affection. He had, indeed, been capa
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摘要：The most powerful risings were in Devonshire and Norfolk. In Devonshire, the rebellion was so strong that ten thousand men united within a few days, a
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摘要：A Parliament was called when Somerset came back, and it repealed [撤销] the whip with six strings, and did one or two other good things; though it unhap
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摘要：CHAPTER 29 ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE SIXTH Henry the Eighth had made a will, appointing a council of sixteen to govern the kingdom for his son while he
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摘要：He married yet once more. Yes, strange to say, he found in England another woman who would become his wife, and she was Catherine Parr, widow of Lord
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摘要：This amiable {sarcasm} monarch now thought of taking another wife. He proposed to the French King to have some of the ladies of the French Court exhib
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摘要：Cranmer had done what he could to save some of the Church property for purposes of religion and education; but, the great families had been so hungry
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摘要：These things were not done without causing great discontent among the people. The monks had been good landlords and hospitable entertainers of all tra
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摘要：But, these were speedily followed by two much greater victims, Sir Thomas More, and John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester. The latter, who was a good a
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摘要：Being now quite resolved to get rid of Queen Catherine, and to marry Anne Boleyn without more ado, the King made Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury, and
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摘要：It was bad for Cardinal Wolsey that he had left Cranmer to render [give] this help. It was worse for him that he had tried to dissuade the King from m
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摘要：When this great change was thus going on, the King began to show himself in his truest and worst colours. Anne Boleyn, the pretty little girl who had
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