English Romanticism. Black romance. Raimunda Maria Agustina Saragossa i Domènech was a Spanish independence fighter
Augustina, the Maid of Saragossa.
Tag: Character sketches
Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama by Rev. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 1892. A revised American edition of the readers handbook. Edited by Marion Harland.
Cinq Mars and De Thou led to Execution.
Cinq Mars and De Thou led to Execution. HENRY D’EFFIAT, marquis de Cinq Mars, was a member of a noble French family. Born in 1620, he was made grand equerry… Read More
Don Juan. Lord Byron’s Haidée. English romanticism
“Haidée,
The greatest heiress of the Eastern isles;
So very beautiful was she,
Her dowry was as nothing to her smiles:
Still in her teens, and like a lovely tree
So grew to womanhood.
English Romanticism, the black romance.
Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke, Queen of England.
Anne Boleyn, 1st Marquess of Pembroke was the second of the six wives of Henry VIII and Queen of England from 1533 to 1536.
Pierre du Terrail, Chevalier de Bayard. The Perfect Knight.
The Knight in shining armor. Many incidents are related of his bravery.
Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother.
Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother. Gustav Dore, Arist. A. Pisan, Engraver. AFTER Cinderella had dressed her two sisters for the ball, she followed them with her eyes as long as… Read More
Francisco Pizarro, the conquerer of Peru.
Pizarro before Charles V. Francisco Pizarro, the conquerer of Peru, was born in Spain about 1475. In 1522 he became a captain, and organized an expedition to explore and conquer… Read More