TancredusE. Lumley, 1846 - Chivalry |
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... seen , and a concession that despondency and suspicions may succeed . The unreasonableness of such fears . That there must ever be abuses ; still that the Middle Ages were ages of great virtue . How the Church condemned superstition ...
... seen , and a concession that despondency and suspicions may succeed . The unreasonableness of such fears . That there must ever be abuses ; still that the Middle Ages were ages of great virtue . How the Church condemned superstition ...
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... seen grow up to manhood ; being both from the same town , and our parents being also familiar with each other . noble born , and distinguished for virtue . Being taken by the infidels , and required to renounce the faith of Christ , he ...
... seen grow up to manhood ; being both from the same town , and our parents being also familiar with each other . noble born , and distinguished for virtue . Being taken by the infidels , and required to renounce the faith of Christ , he ...
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... seen three hundred of its knights suffer themselves to be massacred on the ruins of Japhet , rather than embrace the faith of Mahomet , that this same order , which was al- most wholly buried beneath the ruins of Ptolemais , should have ...
... seen three hundred of its knights suffer themselves to be massacred on the ruins of Japhet , rather than embrace the faith of Mahomet , that this same order , which was al- most wholly buried beneath the ruins of Ptolemais , should have ...
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... seen to accompany humility and the hopes of heaven . Without doubt huma- nity shudders at such scenes . Vinisauf , describing the slaughter of the Turkish army , pursued by Richard I. , ex- claims , with much feeling , " O quam multum ...
... seen to accompany humility and the hopes of heaven . Without doubt huma- nity shudders at such scenes . Vinisauf , describing the slaughter of the Turkish army , pursued by Richard I. , ex- claims , with much feeling , " O quam multum ...
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... seen . conquerors found immense riches . Sobieski wrote to his queen that the Grand Vizier had made him his sole execu- tor . The great standard that was found in his tent , made of the hair of a sea - horse , wrought with a needle ...
... seen . conquerors found immense riches . Sobieski wrote to his queen that the Grand Vizier had made him his sole execu- tor . The great standard that was found in his tent , made of the hair of a sea - horse , wrought with a needle ...
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Page 393 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
Page 221 - At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze ; While his loved partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on the board : And haply too some pilgrim, thither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed.
Page 336 - Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight ; they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant ; And all for love and nothing for reward : Oh why should heavenly God to men have such regard) THE SEASONS.
Page 336 - To serve to wicked men, to serve His wicked foe! How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want ! How oft do they with golden...
Page 9 - For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labor of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 393 - 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 114 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 200 - Sunt namque qui scire volunt eo fine tantum, ut sciant et turpis curiositas est. Et sunt qui scire volunt, ut sciantur ipsi: et turpis vanitas est [...]. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut scientiam suam vendant, verbi causa pro pecunia, pro honoribus: et turpis quaestus est. Sed sunt quoque qui scire volunt, ut aedificent: et caritas est. Et sunt item qui scire volunt, ut aedificentur: et prudentia est.
Page 351 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance every where Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a world so filled; Where the breeze warbles, and the mute still air Is Music slumbering on her instrument.
Page 217 - St. Clare read on in an animated voice, till he came to the last of the verses. "Then shall the King say unto them on His left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire: for I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: I was sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.