Ivanhoe: A RomanceMarcus Ward & Company, 1877 - 428 من الصفحات |
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... seemed loath to depart t PRIOR THE Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity , and might , in his peculiar district of litera- ture , have been termed L'Enfant Gâté of success . It was ...
... seemed loath to depart t PRIOR THE Author of the Waverley Novels had hitherto proceeded in an unabated course of popularity , and might , in his peculiar district of litera- ture , have been termed L'Enfant Gâté of success . It was ...
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... seemed to the author that the existence of the two races in the same country -the vanquished distin- guished by their plain , homely , blunt manners , and the free spirit infused by their ancient institutions and laws , the victors by 2 ...
... seemed to the author that the existence of the two races in the same country -the vanquished distin- guished by their plain , homely , blunt manners , and the free spirit infused by their ancient institutions and laws , the victors by 2 ...
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... seemed then to be your opinion , that the charm lay entirely in the art with which the unknown author had availed himself , like a second M'Pherson , of the antiquarian stores which lay scattered around him , supplying his DEDICATORY ...
... seemed then to be your opinion , that the charm lay entirely in the art with which the unknown author had availed himself , like a second M'Pherson , of the antiquarian stores which lay scattered around him , supplying his DEDICATORY ...
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... seemed to be your opinion , that the very office of an antiquary , employed in grave , and , as the vulgar will sometimes allege , in toilsome and minute research , must be considered as incapacitat- ing him from successfully ...
... seemed to be your opinion , that the very office of an antiquary , employed in grave , and , as the vulgar will sometimes allege , in toilsome and minute research , must be considered as incapacitat- ing him from successfully ...
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... seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidi- cal superstition ; for on the summit of a hillock , so regular as to seem artificial , there still remained part of a circle of rough unhewn stones , of large dimensions ...
... seemed formerly to have been dedicated to the rites of Druidi- cal superstition ; for on the summit of a hillock , so regular as to seem artificial , there still remained part of a circle of rough unhewn stones , of large dimensions ...
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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 cloth extra companion Coningsburgh daughter Disinherited Knight England exclaimed eyes fair father favour fear forest Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Bœuf gold Grand Master Gurth hand hath head heart Heaven hermit holy holy Order honour horse Illuminated Illustrations Isaac Ivanhoe Jester Jewess King knave knowest Lady Rowena lance lists Locksley look maiden Malvoisin noble Norman numbers octavo Order outlaws Preceptor present Price priest Prince John Prior Aymer prisoner ransom Rebecca replied reverend Richard Richard Plantagenet Saint Saint Dunstan Saracens Saxon seemed Sir Knight squire sword tell Templar Templestowe thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself valour voice Waldemar Fitzurse Wamba Wilfred word wounded yeoman yonder zecchins
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الصفحة 257 - He blenches not! He blenches not!" said Rebecca. "I see him now; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back!
الصفحة 19 - Hundreds of broad-headed, shortstemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun...
الصفحة 89 - Norman on the visor, where his lance's point kept hold of the bars. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man, rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust.
الصفحة 258 - They have — they have — and they press the besieged hard upon the outer wall ; some plant ladders, some swarm like bees, and endeavor to ascend upon the shoulders of each other ; down go stones, beams, and trunks of trees upon their heads, and as fast as they bear the wounded to the rear, fresh men supply their places in the assault. Great God ! hast thou given men thine own image that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren!" "Think not of that," replied Ivanhoe; "this...
الصفحة 258 - Rebecca again looked forth, and almost immediately exclaimed, "Holy prophets of the law! Front-de-Boeuf and the Black Knight fight hand to hand on the breach, amid the roar of their followers, who watch the progress of the strife Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly;...
الصفحة 258 - ... in the assault. Great God ! hast thou given men thine own image, that it should be thus cruelly defaced by the hands of their brethren !" " Think not of that," said Ivanhoe ; " this is no time for such thoughts.
الصفحة 130 - ... eye, while he held in his hand his bended bow, with the arrow placed on the string. At length he made a step forward, and raising the bow at the full stretch of his left arm, till the centre or grasping-place was nigh level with his face, he drew his bowstring to his ear.
الصفحة 24 - thou speakest but sad truths; little is left to us but the air we breathe, and that appears to have been reserved with much hesitation, solely for the purpose of enabling us to endure the tasks they lay upon our shoulders. The finest and the fattest is for their board; the loveliest is for their couch; the best and bravest supply their foreign masters with soldiers, and whiten distant lands with their bones, leaving few here who have either will or the power to protect the unfortunate Saxon.
الصفحة 12 - ... 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 cither state of society.
الصفحة 131 - and in the land where he was bred, men would as soon take for their mark King Arthur's round table, which held sixty knights around it. A child of seven years old,' he said, 'might hit yonder target with a headless shaft; but,' 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 fivescore yards, I call him an archer fit to bear both bow and quiver before a king, an it were the stout King Richard himself.