The Broad Stone of Honour: Godefridus. 1877B. Quaritch, 1877 - Chivalry |
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... seem to have been preferred . England formerly renowned for its peculiar love of Chivalry . What general principles may have dictated this preference of foreign examples ; what par- ticular circumstances may have required it . VI . The ...
... seem to have been preferred . England formerly renowned for its peculiar love of Chivalry . What general principles may have dictated this preference of foreign examples ; what par- ticular circumstances may have required it . VI . The ...
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... seem to have an especial reference to the Christian religion : its ardour , and freedom from human respect ; its perfect fidelity ; its humility ; its generous spirit ; its need of a divine object ; its sense of the real dignity of the ...
... seem to have an especial reference to the Christian religion : its ardour , and freedom from human respect ; its perfect fidelity ; its humility ; its generous spirit ; its need of a divine object ; its sense of the real dignity of the ...
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... seem a great pity , that , for want of some person to collect what was credible and suit- able to the good in the present age , and worthy of Les neuf Preux : Abbeville , 1487 . acceptance , out of these and other noble histories ...
... seem a great pity , that , for want of some person to collect what was credible and suit- able to the good in the present age , and worthy of Les neuf Preux : Abbeville , 1487 . acceptance , out of these and other noble histories ...
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... seem to crown its lofty battlements - a procession of angelic spirits , of which an exquisite and perfect emblem may be found in " that host of white - robed pilgrims which travel along the vault of the nightly sky , than whom , " as an ...
... seem to crown its lofty battlements - a procession of angelic spirits , of which an exquisite and perfect emblem may be found in " that host of white - robed pilgrims which travel along the vault of the nightly sky , than whom , " as an ...
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... seems to have corresponded with the very ideal of per- fection in the social order , and whose personal qualities were so heroic , that , according to an ancient chronicle , an infidel king was heard to say , " Quand tout l'honneur du ...
... seems to have corresponded with the very ideal of per- fection in the social order , and whose personal qualities were so heroic , that , according to an ancient chronicle , an infidel king was heard to say , " Quand tout l'honneur du ...
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Page 46 - Heaven-born, the Soul a heaven-ward course must hold ; Beyond the visible world she soars to seek (For what delights the sense is false and weak) Ideal Form, the universal mould. The wise man, I affirm, can find no rest In that which perishes : nor will he lend His heart to aught which doth on time depend. "Tis sense, unbridled will, and not true love, That kills the soul: love betters what is best, Even here below, but more in Heaven above.
Page 342 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 298 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 302 - Take but Degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy. The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe. Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice, too. Then everything includes itself in power :...
Page 38 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 109 - I gave him the book, and he read— " Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to generous and heroic actions, and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world.
Page 178 - This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God...
Page 279 - The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.
Page 18 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 279 - ... the public esteem. If we read of some illustrious line so ancient that it has no beginning, so worthy that it ought to have no end, we sympathize in its various fortunes; nor can we blame the generous enthusiasm, or even the harmless vanity, of those who are allied to the honours of its name.