 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 500 pages
...upon him. "Never day dawned," says his chronicler, " but he rose a worse man than he had lain down; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he...which they were quartered, or insulted the honour of women. What they could not carry off or sell, they often heaped before the owner's door and burned,... | |
 | Charles Henry Pearson - 1861 - 502 pages
...upon him. "Never day dawned," says his chronicler, " but he rose a worse man than he had lain down ; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he...which they were quartered, or insulted the honour of women. What they could not carry off or sell, they often heaped before the owner's door and burned,... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...on whom," as the chronicler says, " never day dawned but he rose a worse man than he had lain down, never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." The Red King exposed himself to great danger in recovering his saddle, when it had been lost in battle... | |
 | Arthur Henry Johnson - 1877 - 292 pages
...profane. ' Never day dawned,' says his chronicler, ' but he rose a worse man than he had lain down ; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen.' Yet, in spite of his wickedness, he had energy and ability. Had these been only directed to better ends,... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 214 pages
...wickedness. "Never day dawned," says a writer of the time, "but he rose a worse man than he had lain down ; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." He kept within bounds while Lanfranc lived, but after the death of the archbishop there was no' one... | |
 | John Morrison Davidson - 1884 - 144 pages
..." Never day dawned,' 1 says the Chronicle, " but he (Rufus) rose a worse man than he had lain down; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." One morning, fresh from a heavy debauch, he went out to hunt in the New Forest, and was some time afterwards... | |
 | Arthur Henry Johnson - 1884 - 314 pages
...profane. " Never day dawned," says his chronicler, "but he rose a worse man than he had lain down; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen.'1 Yet, in spite of his wickedness, he had energy and ability. Had these been only directed to... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 402 pages
...foulest life. " Never day dawned," says his chronicler, " but he was a worse man than when he lay down ; never sun set, but he lay down a worse man than he had risen."] No form of election seems to have preceded the coronation of William Rufus. His accession to the throne... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1890 - 332 pages
...licentiousness. " Never day dawned," says one gloomy historian, "but he rose a worse man than he had lain down ; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." Yet William the Red was no savage. The castles and churches that he built are noble structures, as he may... | |
 | James Richard Joy - 1898 - 330 pages
...' ' Never day dawned," says one gloomy historian, " but he rose a worse man than he had lain down ; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." Yet William the Red was no THE WHITE TOWER (TOWKR OF LONDON). „,. . savage. Ihe castles and churches... | |
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Never day dawned," says his chronicler, " but he rose a worse man than he had lain down; never sun set but he lay down a worse man than he had risen." Yet his hand prospered in all that it found to do; the sea and the wind seemed to obey him; an old Greek... 