A Short History of the English People, volume 1
A Short History of the English People, volume 1
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In his winter march on Chester he strode afoot at the head of his fainting troops, and helped with his own hands to clear a road through the snowdrifts. With the northman's daring broke out the northman's pitilessness. When the townsmen of Alen^on hung raw hides along their walls in scorn of the baseness of his birth, with cries of " Work for the Tanner ! " William tore out his prisoners' eyes, cut ofT their hands and feet, and flung them into the town. At the close of his greatest victory he r...efused Harold's body a grave. Hundreds of Hampshire men were driven from their homes to make him a hunting-ground, and his harrying of Digitized by Google ENGLAND UNDER FOREIGN KINGS 141 Northumbria left the north of England a desolate waste. There is Sec. iv a grim, ruthless ring about his very jests. In his old age Philip of ^oJukr r France mocked at the Conqueror's unwieldy bulk and at the sickness 1042 TO which confined him to his bed at Rouen. " King William has as 1066 long a lying-in," laughed his enemy, "as a woman behind her curtains !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In his winter march on Chester he strode afoot at the head of his fainting troops, and helped with his own hands to clear a road through the snowdrifts. With the northman's daring broke out the northman's pitilessness. When the townsmen of Alen^on hung raw hides along their walls in scorn of the baseness of his birth, with cries of " Work for the Tanner ! " William tore out his prisoners' eyes, cut ofT their hands and feet, and flung them into the town. At the close of his greatest victory he r...efused Harold's body a grave. Hundreds of Hampshire men were driven from their homes to make him a hunting-ground, and his harrying of Digitized by Google ENGLAND UNDER FOREIGN KINGS 141 Northumbria left the north of England a desolate waste. There is Sec. iv a grim, ruthless ring about his very jests. In his old age Philip of ^oJukr r France mocked at the Conqueror's unwieldy bulk and at the sickness 1042 TO which confined him to his bed at Rouen. " King William has as 1066 long a lying-in," laughed his enemy, "as a woman behind her curtains !
What to read after A Short History of the English People, volume 1?
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