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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
ear the extreme of foppery; and when the remains of Hampden himself were disinterred, within half a century, th never be again, and, for the last time, Rupert and Hampden meet face to face. The foremost representative mabout to be made General-in-Chief of the Cavaliers; Hampden is looked to by all as the future General-in-Chief f the Puritans. Rupert is the nephew of the King,--Hampden the cousin of Cromwell; and as the former is believ all the greater qualities of manhood, how far must Hampden be placed above the magnificent and gifted Rupert! st compromise with the country party succeeded, and Hampden become the tutor of Prince Clharles,--or could this fight at Chalgrove Field issue differently, and Hampden survive to be general instead of Essex, and Protector dibras) get thrice captured and thrice escape. For Hampden, the hope of the nation, is fatally shot through thforgets him and recalls only the slain and defeated Hampden. The brilliant renown of the Prince was like the g
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
nic. War or peace hung on the color of a bail-dress, and Madame de Chevreuse knew which party was coming uppermost, by observing whether the binding of Madame de Hautefort's prayer-book was red or green. Perhaps it was all a little theatrical, but the performers were all Rachels. And behind the crimes and the frivolities stood the Parliaments, calm and undaunted, with leaders like Mole and Talon, who needed nothing but success to make their names as grand in history as those of Pym and Hampden. Among the Brienne Papers in the British Museum there is a collection of the manifestoes and proclamations of that time, and they are earnest, eloquent, and powerful, from beginning to end. Lord Mahon alone among historians, so far as my knowledge goes, has done fit and full justice to the French parliaments, those assemblies which refused admission to the foreign armies which the nobles would gladly have summoned in,--but fed and protected the banished princesses of England, when the cour