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affected Alexius already answered appearance archer arms become believe Bertram better Cæsar called Castle cause combat command Count Count of Paris danger daughter death desire Douban Douglas duty Emperor English express eyes faithful father fear feel followers give Greek guards hand head heard heart Heaven Hereward hold honour hope Imperial John de Walton keep kind knight lady least less lists living look lord manner matter means mind minstrel nature never noble observed occasion officer once Paris pass perhaps person poor present Prince Princess rank receive remained rendered replied respect Robert seemed seen side Sir Aymer Sir John soldier speak suffer supposed Tancred tell thee thing thou thought tion travellers trust turn Ursel Valence Varangian voice whole wish witness young
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Seite 334 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Seite 334 - Each spake words of high disdain And insult to his heart's best brother: They parted - ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs, which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between; But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Seite 109 - It came flying through the air," says that good knight, " like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination.
Seite 202 - ... hero. We cannot, however, refuse her judicious and important remark, that the disorders of the times were the misfortune and the glory of Alexius ; and that every calamity which can afflict a declining empire, was accumulated on his reign by the justice of heaven, and the vices of his predecessors.
Seite 235 - Ay, now am I in Arden ; the more fool I : when I was at home, I was in a better place : but travellers must be content.
Seite 334 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
Seite 18 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady. How shee wooed an English man ? Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
Seite 8 - One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.
Seite 201 - Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science, betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.
Seite 166 - Curious, not knowing, not exa.ct, but nice, Form short .ideas, and offend in arts (As most in manners) by a love to parts. Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And...
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| Titel | Count Robert of Paris Band 1 von Tales of My Landlord,.: Fourth and Last Series, James Ballantyne and Co |
| Autor/in | Sir Walter Scott |
| Mitwirkende | Cadell and Co, Whittaker & Co, James Ballantyne and Co |
| Verlag | Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Company, London., 1832 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 23. Okt. 2007 |
| Länge | 330 Seiten |
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