Knights and Their DaysRedfield, 1856 - 479 páginas |
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... looked at death calmly . I think Mr. Hallam over - rates the bully Greek considerably . His instance of the Cid Ruy Diaz , as a perfect specimen of what the modern knight ought to have been , is less to be gainsaid . In old times , as ...
... looked at death calmly . I think Mr. Hallam over - rates the bully Greek considerably . His instance of the Cid Ruy Diaz , as a perfect specimen of what the modern knight ought to have been , is less to be gainsaid . In old times , as ...
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... looked upon chivalric investiture as necessarily a religious ceremony . The crusaders made religious professors , at least , of all knights , and never was one of these present at the reading of the gospel , without holding the point of ...
... looked upon chivalric investiture as necessarily a religious ceremony . The crusaders made religious professors , at least , of all knights , and never was one of these present at the reading of the gospel , without holding the point of ...
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... looked upon that monarch as the son of Count Königsmark , as Jacobite - minded heralds may have been malignant enough to do , they no doubt mentally drew the degrading bar across the royal arms , and tacitly denied the knighthood ...
... looked upon that monarch as the son of Count Königsmark , as Jacobite - minded heralds may have been malignant enough to do , they no doubt mentally drew the degrading bar across the royal arms , and tacitly denied the knighthood ...
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... looked after the royal horses and stables , and all thereto belonging , But to return to the subject of education . If all the sons of noblemen , in former days , were as well off for gentle teachers as 1 old historians and authors ...
... looked after the royal horses and stables , and all thereto belonging , But to return to the subject of education . If all the sons of noblemen , in former days , were as well off for gentle teachers as 1 old historians and authors ...
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... looked very serious , considering his vocation . " You see , " remarked Ducrow to Joey , " that it is quite necessary to make an impression on these young fellows . " . Very likely , " answered Grimaldi , dryly , “ but it can hardly be ...
... looked very serious , considering his vocation . " You see , " remarked Ducrow to Joey , " that it is quite necessary to make an impression on these young fellows . " . Very likely , " answered Grimaldi , dryly , “ but it can hardly be ...
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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.