| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1799 - 440 pages
...Saracens, with their horrible vifprs, advancing to battle ; aud there, were difplayed the wild folemnities of incantation, and the necromantic feats, exhibited...drefles of the dancers, the coftly liveries of the attendants, the canopies of purple velvet and gold, and liftened to the gay drains that floated along... | |
| English literature - 1820 - 352 pages
...before the emperor. The sumptuous banners of the family of Villeroi, which hail long slept in dust, were once more unfurled, to wave over the Gothic points of painted casements ; and music echoed, in many a lingering close, through every winding gallery and colonnade... | |
| Ann Radcliffe - 2006 - 374 pages
...before the Emperor. The sumptuous banners of the family of Villeroi, which had long slept in dust, were once more unfurled, to wave over the gothic points of painted casements; and music echoed, in many a lingering close, through every winding gallery and colonnade... | |
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