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Pagina ix
... called His- torical Romance , that the preliminary letter of Mr Laurence Templeton became in some measure necessary . To this , as to an Intro- duction , the reader is referred , as expressing the author's purpose and opinions in under ...
... called His- torical Romance , that the preliminary letter of Mr Laurence Templeton became in some measure necessary . To this , as to an Intro- duction , the reader is referred , as expressing the author's purpose and opinions in under ...
Pagina x
... called , and others proper to the period , are added , but with a sparing hand , since sufficient information on these subjects is to be found in general history . An incident in the tale , which had the good fortune to find favour in ...
... called , and others proper to the period , are added , but with a sparing hand , since sufficient information on these subjects is to be found in general history . An incident in the tale , which had the good fortune to find favour in ...
Pagina xviii
... called King Edward and the Shepherd , * which , considered as illustrating manners , is still more curious than the King and the Hermit ; but it is foreign to the present purpose . The reader has here the original legend from which the ...
... called King Edward and the Shepherd , * which , considered as illustrating manners , is still more curious than the King and the Hermit ; but it is foreign to the present purpose . The reader has here the original legend from which the ...
Pagina xix
... called a taking title , serves the direct interest of the bookseller or publisher , who by this means sometimes sells an edition while it is yet passing the press . But if the author permits an over degree of atten- tion to be drawn to ...
... called a taking title , serves the direct interest of the bookseller or publisher , who by this means sometimes sells an edition while it is yet passing the press . But if the author permits an over degree of atten- tion to be drawn to ...
Pagina xlii
... churlish boor has destroyed the ancient statue , or rather bas - relief , popularly called Robin of Redesdale . It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the xlii DEDICATORY EPISTLE .
... churlish boor has destroyed the ancient statue , or rather bas - relief , popularly called Robin of Redesdale . It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the xlii DEDICATORY EPISTLE .
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abbot ancient appearance armour arms Ashby Athelstane attendants banquet beauty betwixt Bracy Brian de Bois-Guilbert brother castle Cedric the Saxon champion character chivalry churl companion Copmanhurst courtesy Disinherited Knight dogs dress Earl encounter England English eyes fair fate father favour fear fool forest Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Bœuf gallant gold grace guest Gurth hall hand hath head herd hermit honour horse Isaac Isaac the Jew Ivanhoe Jester King Knight Templar Lady Rowena lance land language lists Locksley look lord master noble Norman numbers outlaws Palmer person Pilgrim pleasure Prince John Prior Aymer race Rebecca rendered replied Richard Saracens Saxon seat seemed shield side Sir Knight spectators squires St Dunstan steed sword Templar thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt tion tournament tribe of Benjamin turned victor voice Waldemar Fitzurse Wamba wine yeoman zecchins
Populaire passages
Pagina 315 - So strange, outrageous, and so variable, As the dog Jew did utter in the streets : ' My daughter ! O my ducats ! O my daughter ! Fled with a Christian ! O my Christian ducats ! Justice ! the law ! my ducats, and my daughter...
Pagina 209 - Let your guards attend me,' he said, 'if you please; I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush.
Pagina 210 - drew a good bow at the battle of Hastings, and never shot at such a mark in his life — and neither will I. If this yeoman can cleave that rod, I give him the bucklers...
Pagina 124 - The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.'* Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles.
Pagina 209 - 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.
Pagina 14 - And swine is good Saxon," said the jester; "but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels like a traitor?" "Pork," answered the swineherd. "I am very glad every fool knows that...
Pagina 6 - French was the language of honour, of chivalry, and even of justice, while the far more manly and expressive Anglo-Saxon was abandoned to the use of rustics and hinds, who knew no other. Still, however, the necessary intercourse between the lords of the soil, and those oppressed inferior beings by whom that soil was cultivated, occasioned the gradual formation of a dialect, compounded betwixt the French and the Anglo-Saxon, in...
Pagina 133 - Templar aimed at the centre of his antagonist's shield, and struck it so fair and forcibly that his spear went to shivers, and the Disinherited Knight reeled in his saddle. On the other hand, that champion had, in the beginning of his career, directed the point of his lance...
Pagina 137 - And as in beauty she surpass'd the choir, So nobler than the rest was her attire; A crown of ruddy gold enclosed her brow, Plain without pomp, and rich without a show; A branch of Agnus Castus in her hand, She bore aloft her symbol of command.
Pagina 235 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well: Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.