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... Leighton by his marriage with a Saxon . Sir Gerald Fitzeustace had sheathed his sword , when the death of the tyrant John recalled the baronage of England to their allegiance to the House of Plantagenet , and led to the expulsion of the ...
... Leighton by his marriage with a Saxon . Sir Gerald Fitzeustace had sheathed his sword , when the death of the tyrant John recalled the baronage of England to their allegiance to the House of Plantagenet , and led to the expulsion of the ...
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... Leighton . The elder of the pair was a young man of a most striking and commanding pre- sence . He was upwards of six feet in height , but so admirably was his figure proportioned , that he looked much shorter than he really was . His ...
... Leighton . The elder of the pair was a young man of a most striking and commanding pre- sence . He was upwards of six feet in height , but so admirably was his figure proportioned , that he looked much shorter than he really was . His ...
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... Leighton , reining in his horse , " do you re- member him , Fitzwalter ? " " To be sure I do . He was my instruc- tor in the art of angling , when I was last at Leighton . Many an hour , when he could afford the time , did we sit beside ...
... Leighton , reining in his horse , " do you re- member him , Fitzwalter ? " " To be sure I do . He was my instruc- tor in the art of angling , when I was last at Leighton . Many an hour , when he could afford the time , did we sit beside ...
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... Leighton , the son of him who ruled . them more as a father than a feudal lord , and for all , Sir Edward had kind words of greeting and remembrance . His fol- lowers , too , had their share in the wel- come ; and , escorted by a large ...
... Leighton , the son of him who ruled . them more as a father than a feudal lord , and for all , Sir Edward had kind words of greeting and remembrance . His fol- lowers , too , had their share in the wel- come ; and , escorted by a large ...
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... Leighton had replaced the low rambling dwelling of their Saxon predecessors with a tall , castellated , turretted , and admirably defended building , which had been enlarged and improved by the present knight , who had employed the ...
... Leighton had replaced the low rambling dwelling of their Saxon predecessors with a tall , castellated , turretted , and admirably defended building , which had been enlarged and improved by the present knight , who had employed the ...
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Alinor answered Artois asked Baron Fitzwalter Baynard's Castle beauty beheld beside betrothed brave brother brow captive chamber churl Cicely Fitzwalter companion Constance de Lingard Count d'Artois Count of Artois crusaders Cyprus Damietta damsel dark daugh daughter dead death deep Dickon Duke of Burgundy eagerly English Eudocia Eudocia Comnena exclaimed eyes fair fair lady father fear Fitz gallant gazed gentle girl Grace guerite Hall hand hast hath heard Heaven holy honour hope Joinville King Louis Knight of Leighton Lady Cicely Lady Fitzeustace Limisso listened looked lord Lord Fitzwalter Lucy maiden morning murderer never noble Oriflamme pale Paul Comnenus paused Perrot poor pray priest Prince Provençal ransom Regnier replied Robert of Artois royal Saracen Seneschal silent Sir Edmund Fitzwalter Sir Knight smile sorrow spirit spoke squire stood sweet tell thank thee thou thought tone Trafford truth turned Venetian Wilfred young knight youth
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Página 89 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Página 299 - What years, i' faith ? Vio. About your years, my lord. Duke. Too old, by heaven; let still the woman take An elder than herself ; so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart. For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are.
Página 265 - Noble madam, Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.
Página 33 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Página 169 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.
Página 3 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Página 21 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Página 226 - And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord. For whose sweet sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead (as living) ever him adored: Upon his shield the like was also scored, For sovereign hope, which in his help he had...
Página 28 - ... this situation, the Earl of Artois sore repented of his headstrong rashness, when it was too late; and, seeing Earl William Longespee fighting bravely against the chief brunt of the enemy, he called out to him in a cowardly manner to flee, as God fought against them. But William bravely answered, "God forbid that my father's son should flee from the face of a Saracen.
Página 3 - This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever Ran on the green sward : nothing she does or seems, But smacks of something greater than herself; Too noble for this place.