Knights and Their DaysRedfield, 1856 - 479 páginas |
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... Rome . At the same time we must not condemn a system , the principles of which were calcu- lated to work such extensive ameliorations in society as chivalry . Christianity itself might be condemned were we to judge of it by the ...
... Rome . At the same time we must not condemn a system , the principles of which were calcu- lated to work such extensive ameliorations in society as chivalry . Christianity itself might be condemned were we to judge of it by the ...
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... Rome in their perplexity , and who had gained there a reputation for piety , as Hector did , who was esteemed so highly religious , for no other reason than that he had covered with rich gifts the altar of the father of Olympus ...
... Rome in their perplexity , and who had gained there a reputation for piety , as Hector did , who was esteemed so highly religious , for no other reason than that he had covered with rich gifts the altar of the father of Olympus ...
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... Rome , he put iron shackles on his legs , the key of which shackles he flung into the Avon . This is very possible ; but when we are told that on requiring the key at a subsequent period , he found it inside a fish , we see that the ...
... Rome , he put iron shackles on his legs , the key of which shackles he flung into the Avon . This is very possible ; but when we are told that on requiring the key at a subsequent period , he found it inside a fish , we see that the ...
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... Rome , nor tolerate it of their own accord . He was , it is said , of noble birth , and after the death of his father , resided with his mother in Palestine , on an estate which finally became his own . The young squire was a handsome ...
... Rome , nor tolerate it of their own accord . He was , it is said , of noble birth , and after the death of his father , resided with his mother in Palestine , on an estate which finally became his own . The young squire was a handsome ...
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... Rome , the greatest of all calamities , from befalling her , without her own con- sent . It appears , however , that Elizabeth did not accept of Philip's resignation of the Garter , for he continued a companion until his decease ...
... Rome , the greatest of all calamities , from befalling her , without her own con- sent . It appears , however , that Elizabeth did not accept of Philip's resignation of the Garter , for he continued a companion until his decease ...
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Página 83 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Página 336 - Sweet speeches, comedies and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad. My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Página 342 - gainst the King of Heaven, To stamp his image in forbidden metal, Forgetting your allegiance and your oath ? In violating marriage' sacred law, You break a greater honour than yourself. To be a king is of a younger house Than to be...
Página 206 - Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Página 51 - The ladies' hearts began to melt, Subdued by blows their lovers felt. So Spanish heroes, with their lances, At once wound bulls
Página 315 - Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call Desdemona, enter giant.
Página 342 - As easy may my intellectual soul Be lent away, and yet my body live, As lend my body, palace to my soul, Away from her, and yet retain my soul. My body is her bower, her court, her abbey, And she an angel, pure, divine, unspotted ; If I should lend her house, my lord, to thee, I kill my poor soul, and my poor soul me.
Página 335 - Saunders, her body was by her express request dressed ' in a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves, and was then wrapped in a winding-sheet of fine linen.
Página 314 - But there be no such comedians as we have here ; yet the women are the best actors, they play their own parts, a thing much desired in England by some ladies, inns o...
Página 132 - Nor much inclined to women ; his desires Are higher than his state, and his deserts Not much short of the most he can desire, If they be weigh'd with what France feels by them.