Age of Chivalry: Or, Legends of King ArthurJ.E. Tilton Company, 1865 - 401 sider |
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Side 10
... young person is expected to know the story of the Golden Fleece , why is the quest of the San- greal less worthy of his acquaintance ? Or if an allusion . to the shield of Achilles ought not to pass unapprehended , why should one to ...
... young person is expected to know the story of the Golden Fleece , why is the quest of the San- greal less worthy of his acquaintance ? Or if an allusion . to the shield of Achilles ought not to pass unapprehended , why should one to ...
Side 14
... young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms . This privilege was conferred on youths of family and fortune only , for the mass of the people were not furnished with arms . The knight then was a mounted warrior , a ...
... young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms . This privilege was conferred on youths of family and fortune only , for the mass of the people were not furnished with arms . The knight then was a mounted warrior , a ...
Side 17
... young man's education was supposed to be completed . In the mean time , the esquires were no less assiduously en- gaged in acquiring all those refinements of civility which formed what was in that age called courtesy . The same castle ...
... young man's education was supposed to be completed . In the mean time , the esquires were no less assiduously en- gaged in acquiring all those refinements of civility which formed what was in that age called courtesy . The same castle ...
Side 50
... young woman , who , on the birth of her son , intrusted him to a priest , who hurried him to the baptismal fount , and so saved him from sharing the lot of his father , though he retained many marks of his unearthly origin . At this ...
... young woman , who , on the birth of her son , intrusted him to a priest , who hurried him to the baptismal fount , and so saved him from sharing the lot of his father , though he retained many marks of his unearthly origin . At this ...
Side 51
... young as he was , ex- plained to the king the absurdity of attempting to rescue the fabric by such means , for he told him the true cause of the instability of the tower was its being placed over the den of two immense dragons , whose ...
... young as he was , ex- plained to the king the absurdity of attempting to rescue the fabric by such means , for he told him the true cause of the instability of the tower was its being placed over the den of two immense dragons , whose ...
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adventure answered armor arms Arthur's court asked battle behold Bendigeid Vran Branwen brother Caerleon Camelot castle celot chamber Cornwall counsel Countess damsel daughter death drew Dyved earl Elphin Enid fair Isoude feast fell forest Geraint gladly Guenever hand head heard Heaven Hector de Marys hermit hoary-headed honor horse host island Kilwich King Arthur knight knighthood Kynon lady lance land lord maiden Manawyddan marvel Matholch Merlin never noble Owain palace pray Pryderi Pwyll Queen Guenever quest returned Rhiannon rode Round Table saluted Sangreal shield Sir Bedivere Sir Bohort Sir Galahad Sir Gawain Sir Hector Sir Kay Sir Laun Sir Launcelot Sir Lionel Sir Lucan Sir Modred Sir Palamedes Sir Perceval Sir Tristram slain slay smote spear sword Taliesin thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thur told took tournament unto thee Welsh wife wound yonder youth Yspadaden Penkawr
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Side 132 - Out upon the wharfs they came, Knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name, The Lady of Shalott. Who is this? and what is here? And in the lighted palace near Died the sound of royal cheer; And they cross'd themselves for fear, All the knights at Camelot: But Lancelot mused a little space; He said, "She has a lovely face; God in his mercy lend her grace, The Lady of Shalott.
Side 253 - And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword.
Side 199 - ... of his age never to have seen so fair a man of form. Then said Sir Launcelot: Cometh this desire of himself? He and all they said yea. Then shall he, said Sir Launcelot, receive the high order of knighthood as tomorn at the reverence of the high feast.
Side 18 - In the name of God, of St. Michael, and St. George, I make thee a knight ; be valiant, courteous, and loyal !' Then he received his helmet, his shield, and spear ; and thus the investiture ended.
Side 58 - O'er the fainting hero threw Her mantle of ambrosial blue; And bade her spirits bear him far, In Merlin's agate-axled car, To her green isle's enamelled steep Far in the navel of the deep.
Side 132 - The first house by the water-side, Singing in her song she died, The Lady of Shalott. Under tower and balcony, By garden-wall and gallery, A gleaming shape she floated by, Dead-pale between the houses high, Silent into Camelot.
Side 378 - And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp, well-tempered, headed with steel, three ells in length, of an edge to wound the wind, and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the dew of June is at the heaviest.
Side 112 - Turn you knights unto me, and leave your fighting with that knight. And then they all three left Sir Kay, and turned unto Sir Launcelot, and there began great battle, for they alighted all three, and struck many great strokes at Sir Launcelot, and assailed him on every side.
Side 79 - Also that no man take battle in a wrongful quarrel, for no law, nor for any world's goods. Unto this were all the knights sworn of the Table Round, both old and young. And at every year were they sworn at the high feast of Pentecost.
Side 206 - Lord, when shall this sorrow leave me, and when shall the holy vessel come by me, where through I shall be blessed, for I have endured thus long for little trespasse ! ' And thus a great while complained the knight, and alwaies Sir Launcelot heard it.