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Pagina 6
... eyes , was but the chief of a semi- barbarous province ; while he , on his part , considered them little better than a sort of privileged robbers , and with the utmost difficulty restrained himself from manifesting his open hatred when ...
... eyes , was but the chief of a semi- barbarous province ; while he , on his part , considered them little better than a sort of privileged robbers , and with the utmost difficulty restrained himself from manifesting his open hatred when ...
Pagina 13
... eyes of the prince confessed at once his passion for the subject , and his admiration of the poet . The figures of Celtic poetry , in themselves highly imagina- tive , were scarce sufficient for the enthusiasm of the ambi- tious bard ...
... eyes of the prince confessed at once his passion for the subject , and his admiration of the poet . The figures of Celtic poetry , in themselves highly imagina- tive , were scarce sufficient for the enthusiasm of the ambi- tious bard ...
Pagina 15
... eyes in silence . ' Read it ! ' exclaimed the fierce Gwenwyn . ' So please you , ' replied the more prudent chaplain , a smaller company were a fitter audience . ' ' Read it aloud ! ' repeated the prince , in a still higher tone ; there ...
... eyes in silence . ' Read it ! ' exclaimed the fierce Gwenwyn . ' So please you , ' replied the more prudent chaplain , a smaller company were a fitter audience . ' ' Read it aloud ! ' repeated the prince , in a still higher tone ; there ...
Pagina 16
... eyes so handled , that thou shalt never read letter more ! ' The monk replied , trembling ( for he was well aware that the sacerdotal character was not uniformly respected among the irascible Welshmen ) , By the oath of my order ...
... eyes so handled , that thou shalt never read letter more ! ' The monk replied , trembling ( for he was well aware that the sacerdotal character was not uniformly respected among the irascible Welshmen ) , By the oath of my order ...
Pagina 17
... eyes were bent , and to whom each ear was turned with breathless eagerness as if his strains were the responses of an oracle . 6 ' We wed not with the stranger , ' - thus burst the song from the lips of the poet . Vortigern wedded with ...
... eyes were bent , and to whom each ear was turned with breathless eagerness as if his strains were the responses of an oracle . 6 ' We wed not with the stranger , ' - thus burst the song from the lips of the poet . Vortigern wedded with ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abbess Amelot ancient arms attendants Baldringham barbed horses betrothed betwixt bezant blood called castle command Constable of Chester Constable's countenance Croftangry Dame Gillian Damian de Lacy danger daughter death defend Elspat Ermengarde Eveline Berenger Eveline's eyes faith Father Aldrovand favour fear Fleming Flemish Garde Doloureuse gate gentlemen Genvil Glentanner Guarine Gwenwyn Hamish hand hastily hath hear heard Heaven Highland Holy Holy Land honour horse Hugo de Lacy Jorworth king knight Lacy's Lady Eveline look lord MacTavish maiden mangonel manner master methinks minstrel mistress monk mother nephew never noble Norman occasion Oldbuck person prelate present prince Prince of Powys purpose Randal Raoul Raymond Berenger rendered replied Rose Saint Saint Dunstan Saxon seemed soldier speak spoke sword thee thou art thought tone trust Vidal voice Welsh Welsh hooks Welshman Wenlock Wilkin Flammock words yonder young youth
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Pagina 44 - 1 Horace, Sat. II, lib. 2. The meaning will be best conveyed to the English reader in Pope's imitation :— What's property, dear Swift ? you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or in a mortgage prove a lawyer's share; Or in a jointure vanish from the heir. Shades, that to Bacon could retreat afford,
Pagina 350 - me her body looked more like a thick cloud than substance. I was so much frightened that my hair stood on end, and my night-clothes fell off. I pulled and pinched your father, who never awoke during the disorder I was in, but at last was much surprised to see me in
Pagina 333 - Long live King Henry ! and so perish all enemies of the gentle Norman men!' CONCLUSION A sun hath set—a star hath risen, O, Geraldine ! since arms of thine Have been the lovely lady's prison.
Pagina 103 - Glendower— And a thousand of his people butchered ; Upon whose dead corpse' there was such misuse, Such beastly, shameless transformation. By these Welshwomen done, as may not be, Without much shame, retold or spoken of.
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Pagina 135 - certify the cause of his delay. At this time Sir John Dalrymple, afterwards Earl of Stair, being in attendance upon William as Secretary of State for Scotland, took advantage of Macdonald's neglecting to take the oath within the time prescribed, and procured from the king a warrant of military execution against that chief and his whole
Pagina 18 - the priests and the bards, were soldiers,—and to settle the order of their descent upon the devoted marches, where they proposed to signalize, by general ravage, their sense of the insult which their prince had received by the rejection, of his suit. CHAPTER III The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end. 3 Henry VI,
Pagina xxviii - read—a book in which every incident shall be incredible, yet strictly true—a work recalling recollections with which the ears of this generation once tingled, and which shall be read by our children with an admiration approaching to incredulity. Such shall be the LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE by the AUTHOR OF WAVERLEY.