Count Robert of ParisAdam & Charles Black, 1887 - 414 sider |
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Achilles Tatius Acolyte Agelastes Alexius Comnenus Anglo-Dane Anglo-Saxon Anna Comnena appearance armour arms Aspramonte barbarian battle battle-axe beautiful Bertha Blacquernal Bohemond brave Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called canst combat command companion Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert Countess courage court crusaders danger daughter death desire Douban dungeon duty Emperor empire enemy expressed eyes fair faithful father favour fear Frank gallant Godfrey Godfrey of Bouillon Grecian Greek Greek fire guard hand hath heard heart Heaven Hereward honour husband Imperial Highness Irene knight lady Lalain look manner means methinks nature Nicephorus Briennius noble Normans occasion officer palace passed Patriarch person philosopher present Prince Princess Anna Protospathaire purpose rank rendered replied Robert of Paris sacred Saxon seemed slave soldier speak stranger Tancred thee thine thou art thou hast thought throne trust Ursel valiant valour Varangian Guard voice wife words Zosimus
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Side 361 - It came flying through the air," says that good knight, " like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination.
Side 321 - THE SPANISH LADY'S LOVE. WILL you hear a Spanish lady How she wooed an English man Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
Side 4 - We cannot, however, refuse her judicious and important remark, that the disorders of the times were the misfortune and the glory of Alexius ; and that every calamity which can afflict a declining empire was accumulated on his reign by the justice of Heaven and the vices of his predecessors.
Side 32 - ... the north, whom a love of adventure, the greatest perhaps that ever was indulged, and a contempt of danger, which never had a parallel in the history of human nature, drove forth upon the pathless ocean.
Side 111 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Side 5 - On a sudden the banner of the Cross was displayed by the Latins ; Europe was precipitated on Asia ; and Constantinople had almost been swept away by this impetuous deluge. In the tempest, Alexius steered the Imperial vessel with dexterity and courage. At the head of his armies he was bold in action, skilful in stratagem, patient of fatigue, ready to improve his advantages, and rising from his defeats with inexhaustible vigour.
Side 21 - This last passage is worked up in the tragedy itself, as follows : LEONTIUS. That power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. " A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it ; A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking States.
Side 346 - Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Bears yet a precious jewel in its head.
Side 32 - Piracy," says Gibbon, with his usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue of the Scandinavian youth. Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their ships, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement.
Side 8 - Did I but purpose to embark with thee On the smooth surface of a summer's sea ; While gentle zephyrs play in prosperous gales, And fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds whistle, and the tempests roar...