ChivalryHarper & Brothers, 1909 - 223 Seiten |
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afraid afterward Alain answered Antoine Riczi barons beau sire Branwen Countess cried Dame Alianora dare daughter dead death desire Duchess of Brittany Duke Duke of Burgundy Earl Eastney Edward Maudelain Eternal eyes face Father finger flung fool France Gâtinais girl Glyndwyr God's grace Gregory Darrell Guienne Gwyllem hand handsome Hastings heart Heaven Howard Pyle Isabella of Portugal John Copeland Katharine King of England King of Scots King's lady laughed lips live Lord Berners lute Madame and Queen Marquess matter Messire Heleigh Miguel de Rueda Montbrison never Nicolas begins Ordish Osmund Heleigh person Plantagenet presently Prince Edward Princess Queen Jehane Queen Ysabeau reign Richard ride rode Rosamund Saint Sang satraps Scots Sestina shame silence sing Sir Gregory Sire Edward slain smiled song soul spoke stood Story sword Thou to-day to-morrow Valois voice wife woman yonder
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 62 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Seite 91 - You will now return home, and take your prisoner, the King of Scotland, and convey him to my wife ; and by way of remuneration, I assign lands as near your house as you can choose them, to the amount of five hundred pounds a year, for you and your heirs.
Seite 70 - I also think and believe for certain, that this lady and her son have been driven from their kingdom wrongfully. If it is for the glory of God to comfort the afflicted, how much more is it so to help and succour those of such high birth, who is daughter of a king, descended from royal lineage, and to whose blood we ourselves are related...
Seite 64 - Perceive at last that thou hast in thee something better and more divine than the things which cause the various effects, and as it were pull thee by the strings.
Seite 80 - ... advancing on the pages, he gave blows, indifferent on whom they fell, bawling out, " Advance, advance on these traitors." He then made up to the Duke of Orleans, who was not far off, and the duke seeing him approach, and the state he was in, spurred his horse and made off, but the king followed him. All were in the greatest amazement, and knew not what to do; at last, when quite wearied out from fatigue, a Norman knight, called Sir William Martel, came behind the king and caught him in his arms,...
Seite 64 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
Seite 86 - God can, if he pleases, send his grace to a poor squire as well as to a great lord. Sire, do not take it amiss, if I did not surrender King David to the orders of my lady queen, for I hold my lands of you, and not of her, and my oath is to you, and not to her, unless, indeed, through choice.
Seite 175 - O Madam Destiny, omnipotent, You have given us youth — and must we cast away The cup undrained and our one coin unspent Because our elders
Seite 175 - Because our elders' beards and hearts are gray? They have forgotten that if we delay Death claps us on the shoulder, and with knife Or cord or fever mocks the prayer we pray — 'Grudge us not life!
Seite 187 - But the King was a kindly tyrant, crushing independence from his associates as lesser folk squeeze water from a sponge. "I cannot go thus. Acknowledge me to be Alain, the man you love, or else strike upon the gong." "You are cruel !" she wailed, in her torture. "Yes, I am cruel.