Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century: With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences, Opseg 1Bradbury & Evans, 1864 |
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Stranica 146 - FAMED for contemptuous breach of sacred ties, By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies ; Between them stands another sceptred thing — It moves, it reigns — in all but name, a king : Charles to his people, Henry to his wife, — In him the double tyrant starts to life : Justice and death have mix'd their dust in vain, Each royal vampire wakes to life again.
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