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... battle an animal so spirited and active , gave the inжоdaμoç ' Exтop or Domitur equi , in rude ages , a character of superior gallantry , while the neces- sary expense attending this mode of service attested his superior wealth . In ...
... battle an animal so spirited and active , gave the inжоdaμoç ' Exтop or Domitur equi , in rude ages , a character of superior gallantry , while the neces- sary expense attending this mode of service attested his superior wealth . In ...
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... battle . But it was peculiar to the institu- tion of chivalry , to blend military valour with the strongest passions which actuate the human mind , the feelings of devotion and those of love . The Greeks and Romans fought for liberty or ...
... battle . But it was peculiar to the institu- tion of chivalry , to blend military valour with the strongest passions which actuate the human mind , the feelings of devotion and those of love . The Greeks and Romans fought for liberty or ...
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... battle against the in- fidels . And who shall blame the preachers who held such language , when it is remembered that the Saracens had at one time nearly pos- sessed themselves of Aquitaine , and that but for the successful valour of ...
... battle against the in- fidels . And who shall blame the preachers who held such language , when it is remembered that the Saracens had at one time nearly pos- sessed themselves of Aquitaine , and that but for the successful valour of ...
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... battle . Edward III . , fighting valiantly in a night - skirmish before the gates of Calais , was heard to accompany each blow he struck with the invocation of ħis tutelar saints , Ha ! Saint Edward ! ha ! St. George ! But the Vir- gin ...
... battle . Edward III . , fighting valiantly in a night - skirmish before the gates of Calais , was heard to accompany each blow he struck with the invocation of ħis tutelar saints , Ha ! Saint Edward ! ha ! St. George ! But the Vir- gin ...
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... battle their separate troops or columns are not arranged promiscu- ously as chance directs , but consists each of a united family , or clan , with its relatives . Their dearest pledges are placed in the vicinity whence may be heard the ...
... battle their separate troops or columns are not arranged promiscu- ously as chance directs , but consists each of a united family , or clan , with its relatives . Their dearest pledges are placed in the vicinity whence may be heard the ...
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Page 272 - The other shape, If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either : black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head, The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 271 - This opinion, which, perhaps, prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth: those that never heard of one another would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears.
Page 301 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Page 202 - Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts ; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance ; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth : — For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings; Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass...
Page 272 - It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, ""Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 272 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of. calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Page 201 - Are now confined two mighty monarchies, Whose high upreared and abutting fronts The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts; Into a thousand parts divide one man, And make imaginary puissance; Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i...
Page 205 - 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 167 - And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 182 - 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.