The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 2; Volumes 4-5 |
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Page 88
... ROMANCE DU TROUBADOUR . ' Brûlant d'amour , en partant pour la guerre , Le Troubadour , ennemi du chagrin , Pensait ainsi à sa jeune bergère , Tous les matins en chantant ce refrain : " Mon bras à ma patrie , Mon cœur pour mon amie ...
... ROMANCE DU TROUBADOUR . ' Brûlant d'amour , en partant pour la guerre , Le Troubadour , ennemi du chagrin , Pensait ainsi à sa jeune bergère , Tous les matins en chantant ce refrain : " Mon bras à ma patrie , Mon cœur pour mon amie ...
Page 197
... romance of Jehan de Saintre , written in the year 1459 , and supposed to be founded , in a great mea- sure , upon real incidents . * The hero , with nine companions at arms , four of whom were knights , and five squires , vowed to carry ...
... romance of Jehan de Saintre , written in the year 1459 , and supposed to be founded , in a great mea- sure , upon real incidents . * The hero , with nine companions at arms , four of whom were knights , and five squires , vowed to carry ...
Page 198
... romance , a Polish knight , called the Seigneur de Loiselench , is described as appearing at the court of Paris wearing a light gold chain attached to his wrist and ankle in token of a vow , which emblem of bondage he had sworn to wear ...
... romance , a Polish knight , called the Seigneur de Loiselench , is described as appearing at the court of Paris wearing a light gold chain attached to his wrist and ankle in token of a vow , which emblem of bondage he had sworn to wear ...
Page 201
... romance of " Huon of Bourdeaux , " * that champion is represented as having failed in duty to God and his faith , because he had professed himself a Saracen for the temporary purpose of obtaining entrance into the palace of Amiel ...
... romance of " Huon of Bourdeaux , " * that champion is represented as having failed in duty to God and his faith , because he had professed himself a Saracen for the temporary purpose of obtaining entrance into the palace of Amiel ...
Page 203
... romance ; they achieved deeds of valour against such odds of numbers as are only recorded in the annals of knight - errantry ; and , alas ! they followed their prototypes in that indifference for human life , which is the usual ...
... romance ; they achieved deeds of valour against such odds of numbers as are only recorded in the annals of knight - errantry ; and , alas ! they followed their prototypes in that indifference for human life , which is the usual ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 291 - 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!
Page 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.
Page 348 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for...
Page 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...
Page 296 - 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.