Stories of Chivalry and Romance ...Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827 - 275 sider |
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abbot adventure altar appearance arms bard barrier Beauford beauty behold beneath brave bright brother Caerleon Cardiff Castle cavern chevaliers chivalry Cicely de Londres combatants commanded companions courser courteous cronal dark daughter Devil's Gorge Donat's Dubricius Duke of Gloucester earth ENCHANTED SHIELD exclaimed fair falchion fame favour fear fell fortune gallant Gaston de Biern gazed glory Guienne hand hath heard heralds hero holy honour Jacques de Wilton John de Castlenau joust King Arthur knighthood knightly lady lance Lancelot du lac lord loud martial master minstrel Mortimer Morville castle noble Ogmore pennon Perceforest Plumeless Helm possession present preux chevaliers Pridwen prince proud renown replied Round Table royal seat Sir Galath Sir Gaston Sir Hugh Mathraval Sir Jacques Sir John Sir Knight Sir Lancelot Sir Robert Esterling Sir Tristan soon spear squire steed stood summoned sword thee thou tournay victor Villemorris voice Walter Sele
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Side 255 - ... fortress, that was still enabled to keep on high a little longer the well known ensign of fast-falling royalty. One only of the former garrison remained; and he with beating heart and anxious look, had twice already explored the intricacies of each apartment which the castle contained, in search of the object of his every hope and fear, but all in vain. Still coping with the grim fiend despair, he was in the act of doing so for the third time, when summoned, and upon refusing to obey, forced...
Side 243 - Beauford striking against an iron-ring in the floor, he stumbled, when putting out his sword to prevent his falling it snapt, and of course occasioned that which it was intended to prevent. The issue of the strife seemed now determined ; but it was not so : for on Sele's springing forward to disarm his adversary, he received the contents of a pistol in his left shoulder, and fell prostrate beside him. A party of the guard who had been alarmed by the noise which the combat had necessarily occasioned,...
Side 246 - ... holds of the feudal barons, frequently abounded with a multitude of secret posterns, and subterranean passages, for which any person except the original proprietor, would be puzzled to find an use. Groping therefore his way, as well as he was able, he proceeded slowly along, carefully examining with his hands the wall of the dungeon, which ere he had gone very far, became sensibly larger ; and he was enabled to stand erect. Still keeping the wall for his guide, he had not proceeded much farther...
Side 250 - ... scarcely knew whether he ought not to look upon his prisoner as a madman, paused, ere he made any reply. However, as the chances, judging from the resistance which the garrison had already made, were so many against his being able to take the place by force of arms, he determined as a last resource, to embrace the opportunity which thus offered itself, be the consequences what they might. " Be it so," was the answer; " he whom you address is always ready, lead on then, but hearken, haughty cavalier!
Side 245 - ... soon brought the ill-fated youth to himself again, where seating, (for the place he was in, would not allow of his standing,) himself upon the step on which he had been left, he proceeded to bind up the wound, as well as he was able, with his handkerchief: after which he felt relieved. Perfectly aware from the situation of his prison, that it would be in vain to attempt either by the loudness of his voice, or any other means now in his power, to make his friends acquainted with his fate, he made...
Side 81 - ... comers. As the blazonry of the whole was alike unknown to him, he directed the point of his lance to the first on the row. Five golden lozenges upon a field gules, informed the learned in the science of heraldry, that it belonged to the descendant of the renowned conqueror of Brecknock, Bernard Newmarch, uterine brother of the still more renowned conqueror of England. Roger Newmarch, its present possessor, was a young knight of great promise and increasing fame, and who had, in the sports of...
Side 229 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Side 238 - ... governor : but when the latter so far forgets himself, as to accuse those falsely who have cheerfully shed their best blood at his bidding, and neglects to provide for their safety in the hour of danger, it is time they look to themselves. Hear me then, I care not for the effects of your threatened vengeance.
Side 241 - ... Walter was not fated to behold. It appears, however, that he was not the only person among the besieged, who was sensible of the charms of the fair Deva. The commandant himself, who, to his unshaken loyalty (almost his only virtue) added all that licentiousness and profligacy which characterised, in a greater or less degree, the reign of every monarch of the Stuart line : had also beheld and admired her charms; but alas! beheld, and admired them with the most dishonourable feelings; and he seized...
Side 244 - ... steps, when a similar barrier opposed them, which was also, with some difficulty opened ; and the interior of the castle keep presented itself to their view, darker, if possible, than the sepulchres of the dead. Here, just within the entrance, Beauford commanded the men to lay down their prisoner. They did so, and retreated. The door grating upon its rusty hinges, closed again ; and the unfortunate Sele found himself in a dark, damp dungeon, far from the reach of any human being. Not having been...