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... , THAT THEIR CHIEF VALUE WILL BE DERIVED FROM BEING INSCRIBED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS AND ROYAL LADY , WHOSE NAME IS HALLOWED BY HER OWN VIRTUES , AND A NATION'S LOVE . PREFACE . THE tradition on which the following Tale is.
... , THAT THEIR CHIEF VALUE WILL BE DERIVED FROM BEING INSCRIBED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS AND ROYAL LADY , WHOSE NAME IS HALLOWED BY HER OWN VIRTUES , AND A NATION'S LOVE . PREFACE . THE tradition on which the following Tale is.
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... royal patronage , for the adornment of the noble hall in which he and his lady waited to receive their son and his guest . The sun's rays were still sufficiently powerful to force their way through the narrow arched win- dows , above ...
... royal patronage , for the adornment of the noble hall in which he and his lady waited to receive their son and his guest . The sun's rays were still sufficiently powerful to force their way through the narrow arched win- dows , above ...
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... royal palace of Westminster was ended . The lamps were waxing dim , the last echoes of departing footsteps were dying away , and yet one solitary guest lingered in the deserted hall , gazing , with folded arms , on the door which had ...
... royal palace of Westminster was ended . The lamps were waxing dim , the last echoes of departing footsteps were dying away , and yet one solitary guest lingered in the deserted hall , gazing , with folded arms , on the door which had ...
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... the civil wars between the de Montford faction and the Royal party ; but the engrossing sentiment which occupied him , prevented his interchanging more than passing courtesies with any of these new and unwished - THE RANSOM . 151.
... the civil wars between the de Montford faction and the Royal party ; but the engrossing sentiment which occupied him , prevented his interchanging more than passing courtesies with any of these new and unwished - THE RANSOM . 151.
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... royal brother of France ? " asked Gerald . " No , by St. George ! His grace looks but coldly on the proposal , and will make no promise to join us ; on the contrary , he will not permit the Prince Richard to go with us H 3 THE RANSOM ...
... royal brother of France ? " asked Gerald . " No , by St. George ! His grace looks but coldly on the proposal , and will make no promise to join us ; on the contrary , he will not permit the Prince Richard to go with us H 3 THE RANSOM ...
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The Ransom: A Tale of the Thirteenth Century, Founded on a Family Tradition ... Laura Valentine Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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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.