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... Knight ; John Secker , Esq . , Town- Clerk of Windsor ; and Mr. George Jenner . The poeti- cal fragment at the commencement of the work , is the contribution of a friend . The object of the Author has been to present the history of ...
... Knight ; John Secker , Esq . , Town- Clerk of Windsor ; and Mr. George Jenner . The poeti- cal fragment at the commencement of the work , is the contribution of a friend . The object of the Author has been to present the history of ...
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... knights acknowledged the chivalrous duty Of homage and love to the fair queen of beauty . Gay were the heralds who challenged the strife ; Stern was the struggle for honour and life ; Bravely the champions did their part , And mirth ...
... knights acknowledged the chivalrous duty Of homage and love to the fair queen of beauty . Gay were the heralds who challenged the strife ; Stern was the struggle for honour and life ; Bravely the champions did their part , And mirth ...
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... knight were often seen upon their knees in prayer ; While matin song and vesper hymn , with music full and deep , Rolled through those aisles where now in dust contending monarchs sleep . But all are gone , and other feet now tread ...
... knight were often seen upon their knees in prayer ; While matin song and vesper hymn , with music full and deep , Rolled through those aisles where now in dust contending monarchs sleep . But all are gone , and other feet now tread ...
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... knights which he had chosen and united for himself : and was still further ennobled by the consecrating hand of the then Archbishop of Canterbury . " - BLACK BOOK . There can be no doubt that , at a very B 2 5 EARLIEST DAYS .
... knights which he had chosen and united for himself : and was still further ennobled by the consecrating hand of the then Archbishop of Canterbury . " - BLACK BOOK . There can be no doubt that , at a very B 2 5 EARLIEST DAYS .
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... knights ; and , from the accounts of the money expended , it would appear that they were clothed in very costly ... knight , he suddenly rose from his seat , without having any definite motive for doing so ; and the next instant the ...
... knights ; and , from the accounts of the money expended , it would appear that they were clothed in very costly ... knight , he suddenly rose from his seat , without having any definite motive for doing so ; and the next instant the ...
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Page 74 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows, richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 178 - People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle.
Page 154 - But scarce again his horn he wound, When lo ! forth starting at the sound From underneath an aged oak, That slanted from the islet rock, A damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot to the bay...
Page 204 - Hall, and there find the boys' verses, 'De Peste'; it being their custom to make verses at Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good they were; better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long and longer than the whole Hall, by much.
Page 139 - ... the bird of paradise, three spans long, three fingers broad, having a blue bill of the length of half an inch, the upper part of its head yellow, the nether part of a * * * colour...
Page 178 - On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt: for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 113 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight (which he himself Foretold should be his last), full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed...
Page 222 - I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the queen, and let her know her army has had a glorious victory. M. Tallard and two other generals are in my coach, and I am following the rest. The bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large. — MARLBOROUGH...
Page 178 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Page 153 - As we were returning to our inn, we happened to meet some country people celebrating their Harvest Home ; their last load of corn they crown with flowers, having besides an image richly dressed, by which perhaps they would signify Ceres : this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maidservants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout as loud as they can till they arrive at the barn.