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... PRINCE AT CRESSY AND POITIERS . Ibid . 119 PERCY AND DOUGLAS - THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN . Ibid . 135 OLD BARONIAL MANSION , GARDENS , AND CHASE , Miscellaneous Criticism , 139 SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN ELIZABETH ...
... PRINCE AT CRESSY AND POITIERS . Ibid . 119 PERCY AND DOUGLAS - THE BATTLE OF OTTERBURN . Ibid . 135 OLD BARONIAL MANSION , GARDENS , AND CHASE , Miscellaneous Criticism , 139 SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN ELIZABETH ...
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... Prince John and his attendants . Opposite to this royal gallery was another , elevated to the same height , on the west- ern side of the lists ; and more gaily , if less sumptu- ously decorated than that destined for the Prince himself ...
... Prince John and his attendants . Opposite to this royal gallery was another , elevated to the same height , on the west- ern side of the lists ; and more gaily , if less sumptu- ously decorated than that destined for the Prince himself ...
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... Prince was called by the commotion which had attended the ambitious movement of Isaac towards the higher places of the assembly . The quick eye of Prince John instantly recognized the Jew , but was much more agreeably attracted by the ...
... Prince was called by the commotion which had attended the ambitious movement of Isaac towards the higher places of the assembly . The quick eye of Prince John instantly recognized the Jew , but was much more agreeably attracted by the ...
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... Prince John gives signal to the heralds to proclaim the laws of the Tournament . ] First , the five challengers were to undertake all comers . Secondly , any knight proposing to combat , might , if he pleased , select a special ...
... Prince John gives signal to the heralds to proclaim the laws of the Tournament . ] First , the five challengers were to undertake all comers . Secondly , any knight proposing to combat , might , if he pleased , select a special ...
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... Prince and the ladies by lowering his lance . The dexterity with which he managed his steed , and something of youthful grace which he displayed in his manner , won him the favour of the multitude , which some of the lower classes ex ...
... Prince and the ladies by lowering his lance . The dexterity with which he managed his steed , and something of youthful grace which he displayed in his manner , won him the favour of the multitude , which some of the lower classes ex ...
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Page 204 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy. The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of, Border chivalry; For, well-a-day!
Page 212 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...
Page 208 - O'er Roslin all that dreary night, A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 'Twas broader than the watch-fire's light, And redder than the bright moonbeam. It glared on Roslin's castled rock, It ruddied all the copse-wood glen; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from...
Page 209 - Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapelle ; Each one the holy vault doth hold — But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle. And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds The dirge of lovely Rosabelle, [sung, XXIV.
Page 196 - But present still, though now unseen, When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Page 72 - Nothing but the cloud of arrows flying so thick as to dazzle mine eyes, and to hide the bowmen who shoot them." " That cannot endure," said Ivanhoe. " If they press not right on to carry the castle by pure force of arms, the archery may avail but little against stone walls and bulwarks. Look for the Knight of the Fetterlock, fair Rebecca, and see how he bears himself; for as the leader is, so will his followers be." " I see him not,
Page 209 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 15 - Hundreds of broad-headed, shortstemmed, wide-branched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; in some places they were intermingled with beeches, hollies, and copsewood of various descriptions, so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun...
Page 198 - For on the smoke-wreathes, huge and slow That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep...
Page 207 - O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood...