Waverley Novels, المجلد 9A. & C. Black, 1853 |
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... Richard I. , not only as abounding with characters whose very names were sure to attract general attention , but as affording a strik- ing contrast betwixt the Saxons , by whom the soil was culti- vated , and the Normans , who still ...
... Richard I. , not only as abounding with characters whose very names were sure to attract general attention , but as affording a strik- ing contrast betwixt the Saxons , by whom the soil was culti- vated , and the Normans , who still ...
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... Richard and Friar Tuck . King Edward ( we are not told which among the monarchs of that name , but , from his temper and habits , we may suppose Edward IV . ) sets forth with his court to a gallant hunting- match in Sherwood Forest , in ...
... Richard and Friar Tuck . King Edward ( we are not told which among the monarchs of that name , but , from his temper and habits , we may suppose Edward IV . ) sets forth with his court to a gallant hunting- match in Sherwood Forest , in ...
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... which can positively be termed modern ; but , on the other hand , it is extremely próbable that I may have confused the manners of two or three centuries , and 1 introduced , during the reign of Richard the First , 20 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
... which can positively be termed modern ; but , on the other hand , it is extremely próbable that I may have confused the manners of two or three centuries , and 1 introduced , during the reign of Richard the First , 20 WAVERLEY NOVELS .
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Walter Scott. introduced , during the reign of Richard the First , circumstances appropriated to a period either considerably earlier , or a good deal later than that era . It is my comfort , that errors of this kind will escape the ...
Walter Scott. introduced , during the reign of Richard the First , circumstances appropriated to a period either considerably earlier , or a good deal later than that era . It is my comfort , that errors of this kind will escape the ...
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... Richard I. , when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects , who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppres- sion . The nobles , whose ...
... Richard I. , when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects , who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppres- sion . The nobles , whose ...
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Abbot answered armour arms Athelstane attendants Beaumanoir beauty betwixt Black Knight blood Bracy Brian de Bois-Guilbert brother called canst castle Cedric champion Christian companion Coningsburgh Copmanhurst daughter defend Disinherited Knight England exclaimed eyes fair fate father favour fear forest Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Boeuf Grand Master guest Gurth hand hath head heart Heaven hermit holy holy Order honour horse Isaac Ivanhoe Jester Jewess King knave Knight Templar knowest Lady Rowena lance lists Locksley look maiden Malvoisin noble Norman numbers Order outlaws Preceptor present priest Prince John Prior Aymer prisoner ransom Rebecca replied reverend Richard Richard Plantagenet Saint Dunstan Saracens Saxon seemed shew Sir Knight squire steed sword tell Templar Templestowe thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tournament trust valour voice Waldemar Fitzurse Wamba Wilfred wine wounded yeoman yonder zecchins
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الصفحة 25 - IN that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
الصفحة 326 - And I must lie here like a bedridden monk," exclaimed Ivanhoe, " while the game that gives me freedom or death is played out by the hand of others ! Look from the win-dow once again, kind maiden, but beware that you are not marked by the archers beneath —• look out once more, and tell me if they yet advance to the storm.
الصفحة 256 - They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured.
الصفحة 18 - ... that extensive neutral ground, the large proportion, that is, of manners and sentiments which are common to us and to our ancestors, having been handed down unaltered from them to us, or which, arising out of the principles of our common nature, must have existed alike in either state of society.
الصفحة 110 - Saracenic music of the challengers concluded one of those long and high flourishes with which they had broken the silence of the lists, it was answered by a solitary trumpet, which breathed a note of defiance from the northern extremity. All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barriers opened than he paced into the lists.
الصفحة 343 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
الصفحة 110 - Disinherited. He was mounted on a gallant black horse; and as he passed through the lists he gracefully saluted the Prince and the ladies by lowering his lance. The dexterity with which he managed his steed, and something of youthful grace which he displayed in his manner, won him the...
الصفحة 125 - Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings, Vex'd and tormented runs poor Barabas With fatal curses towards these Christians.
الصفحة 164 - ... added he, walking deliberately to the other end of the lists, and sticking the willow wand upright in the ground, " he that hits that rod at five-score yards, I call him an archer fit to bear both bow and quiver before a king, an it were the stout King Kichard himself.
الصفحة 329 - all about him is black as the wing of the night raven. Nothing can I spy that can mark him further; but having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength — there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to even- blow which he deals upon his enemies.