His second wife, a cruel and scheming woman, plots to destroy Posthumus so that her son, the boorish Cloten, may marry Imogen.
Plots against the French Emperor, and their Consequences.
There are plots sufficient in the book for two or three good stories, but they are badly managed, and the various parts of the story clumsily put together.
Try as I may I can't really associate you with plots and counter-plots and secret meetings, and associations with all the rag-tag and bob-tail of Balkan intrigue.
Like Caesar, he had his enemies, but, more fortunate than Caesar, he escaped their plots and was elected Emperor of the French by an almost unanimous vote of the people.
Perhaps one of you will condescend to let me in presently on all these plots and counterplots," he remarked as he walked away.
Quite innocent of plots and stratagems formulating about him, the Tyro tried all the various devices made and provided for the killing of time on shipboard, but found none of them sufficiently lethal.
I was then in a position to advocate your cause, and to state your original reluctance to enter into the plots of the insurgents.
In a sudden moment I discovered that some of its more active projectors had coupled with a patriotic enterprise plots of a dark nature, and that the conspiracy itself was about to be betrayed to the government.
Quietly and secretly he had sought out, amongst the most needy and unprincipled of his own countrymen, those whom he could suborn to depose to Riccabocca's participation in plots and conspiracies against the Austrian dominion.
It was a time of plots and counterplots, when England seemed on the brink of another civil war.
Had the seminary priests been left free to continue their work, unimpeded by foreign or English political plots on the Continent, it is difficult to say what might have been the result.
Unfortunately new plots were hatched under the protection of France or Spain for the release of Mary Queen of Scotland, and for her proclamation as Queen of England.
It is far more secure and imperishable than yours, and no one envies it or plotsagainst it, neither populace nor tyrant: best of all, the larger the number of persons who share it, the greater it will grow.
Thus having the appearance of armor without its weight he could be safe from plots and also arouse admiration.
The tribune charged with slaying him and the soldiers in his contingent lost their lives, nominally for making plots but really for not having killed their victim.
But the plotswe want are fortunately rocky places, where burial is impossible.
She had struggled with admirable stubbornness, with mortal anxieties born of the most sacred patriotism, against the treasonable plots of the captains who finally brought on her downfall.
Furious at not being able to catch Joan in the snares that they had spread for her, George of La Tremouille and his two accomplices, the Bishop of Chartres and the Sire of Gaucourt, pursued their darksome plots with increased intensity.
Her position became extremely difficult, as the French, the Spaniards, and the Protestant party each sought to involve her in plots for their own ends.
In the spring of 1570 the Pope issued a bull of deposition; and the plots on behalf of Mary as Catholic claimant to the throne thickened.
He was depressed by sad presentiments, and was in constant apprehension of assassination, for it was well-known that there were plots against his life.
A magnanimous prince like yourself should seek at once the place where such plots are hatching, and you would see the fury of the rebels change at once to cowardice.
Thus Ferdinand hoped to secure considerable accessions of territory and to avoid any interference on the part of the Holy Roman Empire and England, the only outstanding powers which might be able to hinder his plots against France.
Of these the plots are for the most part poorly contrived, the narrative hammered out invita Minerva, and, owing to their aim, nothing capricious or accidental is permitted.
It cannot be because her plots are ill-constructed.
The camp which Carmichael and Robinson had selected, while I rode over to the other creek, was a most wretched place, in the midst of dense mallee and amidst thick plots of triodia, which we had to cut away before we could sit down.
Travelling now for the new hills, we soon entered scrubs, where some plots of the dreaded triodia were avoided.
It had little other vegetation upon it than huge plots of triodia, of the most beautiful and vivid green, and set with the most formidable spines.
He invented plots and situations full of fine possibilities by which later poets have profited, but his own handling of them was feeble and prolix.
These translations are mainly of interest as having furnished plots to the English dramatists.
Though often loose in their plots and without that consistency in the development of their characters which distinguished Jonson's more conscientious workmanship, they are full of graceful dialogue and beautiful poetry.
Bell says that although "written in the most contemptible language, yet they never fail to melt the audience into tears, merely by the force of judicious and well-arranged plots and incidents.
Grimm jokes over plots admitting of double denouements, and alludes to the Norman vicar of Montchauvet, who wrote a tragedy on the subject of Belshazzar.
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