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Page xi
... Merlin for thinking so lightly of his royal and knightly duties ; or that of the usurper Mordred and the Bishop of Canterbury , when after each had defied the other , the bishop ' did the curse in the most orgulous wise that might be ...
... Merlin for thinking so lightly of his royal and knightly duties ; or that of the usurper Mordred and the Bishop of Canterbury , when after each had defied the other , the bishop ' did the curse in the most orgulous wise that might be ...
Page xiii
... Merlin , half Christian , half magician , but always with dog - like loyalty to the house of Uther Pendragon . So is the Bishop of Canterbury , who appears at intervals in the story . So are many others whose names I might recite . The ...
... Merlin , half Christian , half magician , but always with dog - like loyalty to the house of Uther Pendragon . So is the Bishop of Canterbury , who appears at intervals in the story . So are many others whose names I might recite . The ...
Page xiv
... Merlin's origin1 he substitutes a slight allusion to it : without disguising what he probably believed to be at least an half historical record of Arthur's birth , he gives a grace and dignity to the story by the charms of the mother's ...
... Merlin's origin1 he substitutes a slight allusion to it : without disguising what he probably believed to be at least an half historical record of Arthur's birth , he gives a grace and dignity to the story by the charms of the mother's ...
Page xv
... Merlin and the Christian bishop of Canterbury , and elected Arthur to the throne ; when Arthur made Carlion , or Camelot , or both , his head - quarters in a war against Cornwall , Wales , and the North , in which he was victorious by ...
... Merlin and the Christian bishop of Canterbury , and elected Arthur to the throne ; when Arthur made Carlion , or Camelot , or both , his head - quarters in a war against Cornwall , Wales , and the North , in which he was victorious by ...
Page xvi
... Merlin is said to be in Wales , while elsewhere Wales and land are confounded in like manner . So of Camelot , where Arthur chie his court , Caxton in his Preface speaks as though it were in Wales , p meaning Caerleon , where the Roman ...
... Merlin is said to be in Wales , while elsewhere Wales and land are confounded in like manner . So of Camelot , where Arthur chie his court , Caxton in his Preface speaks as though it were in Wales , p meaning Caerleon , where the Roman ...
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Page v - Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so...
Page v - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 462 - Then Sir Bedivere cried: Ah my lord Arthur, what shall become of me, now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? Comfort thyself...
Page xxxvi - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Page 9 - When Sir Ector beheld the sword he returned again and came to the church, and there they...
Page 469 - Morte d'Arthur. — SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. ' 'It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Page 468 - Launcelot, he said, thou were head of all Christian knights, and now I dare say, said Sir Ector, thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand.
Page 462 - Bedivere, take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder water side, and when thou comest there, I charge thee throw my sword in that water, and come again, and tell me what thou there seest. My lord, said Bedivere, your commandment shall be done, and lightly bring you word again.
Page xxxi - ... every man will say it is a great cruelty to put to death such honest persons, who by their own wills put themselves into your grace to save their company.
Page xxiii - Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to tune his mind Or manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility?