The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volum 2;Volumer 4-5Baudry's European Library, 1837 - 477 sider |
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... Chivalry , Romance , and the Drama , PARIS , BAUDRY'S EUROPEAN LIBRARY , RUE DU COQ , NEAR THE LOUVRE . SOLD ALSO BY AMYOT , RUE DE LA PAIX ; TRUCHY , BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS ; THEOPHILE BARROIS , JUN . , RUE RICHELIEU ; HEIDELOFF AND ...
... Chivalry , Romance , and the Drama , PARIS , BAUDRY'S EUROPEAN LIBRARY , RUE DU COQ , NEAR THE LOUVRE . SOLD ALSO BY AMYOT , RUE DE LA PAIX ; TRUCHY , BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS ; THEOPHILE BARROIS , JUN . , RUE RICHELIEU ; HEIDELOFF AND ...
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... chivalry , would the perusal have excited ! Now , and brought close to our own times , they can only be considered as the stock in trade of the master of a regimental band ; or at best , we may suppose the compilation to have been the ...
... chivalry , would the perusal have excited ! Now , and brought close to our own times , they can only be considered as the stock in trade of the master of a regimental band ; or at best , we may suppose the compilation to have been the ...
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... chivalry are end- ed , and since no single knight can now rout a legion of cuirassiers with his own good sword , the king must have owed his restoration to Wellington and Blucher ; and those who only walked forward in the path which our ...
... chivalry are end- ed , and since no single knight can now rout a legion of cuirassiers with his own good sword , the king must have owed his restoration to Wellington and Blucher ; and those who only walked forward in the path which our ...
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Walter Scott. AN ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA . [ 1818. ] C Eu Amo bit ± 52 . Recy's Rell you IV . 13.
Walter Scott. AN ESSAY ON CHIVALRY . FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA . [ 1818. ] C Eu Amo bit ± 52 . Recy's Rell you IV . 13.
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... chivalry . In attempting to treat this curious and important subject , rather as philosophers than as antiquaries , we cannot , however , avoid going at some length into the history and origin of the institution . From the time that ...
... chivalry . In attempting to treat this curious and important subject , rather as philosophers than as antiquaries , we cannot , however , avoid going at some length into the history and origin of the institution . From the time that ...
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ancient antiquity appears arms army authority barons battle battle of Waterloo beautiful betwixt Bonaparte Border Borthwick Borthwick Castle Bothwell British called castle cavalry character chief Chivalry church circumstances clans comedy command court Crichton Crichton Castle crown Dalkeith defence Douglas Drama Duke Duke of Albany Duke of Wellington Dunbar Earl Earl of Bothwell Earl of Douglas Edinburgh enemy England English favour fortress France French frequently frontier garrison hand honour horse inhabitants James Jedburgh king kingdom knight lady Laird land Liddesdale Lord manner marches military minstrels monarch moss-troopers noble Northumberland occasion officers palace Paris Parliament party person possessed present prince prisoners probably Prussians Queen racter rank regalia rendered Romance royal rude ruins Saint Saxon scene Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Border seems soldiers supposed sword taste tion tower town tribes troops usually wall warden William
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Side 383 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Side 107 - Berkley's roof that ring, Shrieks of an agonizing king ! She-wolf of France, with unrelenting fangs, That tear'st the bowels of thy mangled mate, From thee be born, who o'er thy country hangs The scourge of heaven. What terrors round him wait ! Amazement in his van, with flight combined, And sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.
Side 141 - Lord, thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle ? MICAH.
Side 388 - I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played, but now the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesties being so long abroad.
Side 364 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Side 295 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Side 159 - In gentle stream; then rose the song, the loud Acclaim of praise. The wheeling plover ceased Her plaint; The solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns the watcher's ear Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note.
Side 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Side 38 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Side 300 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.