The Waverley Novels, Volumen 12Lippincott, Grambo, 1855 |
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abbot Achilles Tatius Agelastes Alexius Comnenus Anna Comnena answered appearance archer arms Aymer de Valence barbarian battle Bertha Bertram Blacquernal Bohemond Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called Castle of Douglas chivalry church combat command Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert Countess crusaders danger daughter death degree Douban Douglas Castle dungeon duty Emperor empire enemy English expressed eyes faithful father favour fear garrison Godfrey of Bouillon Grecian Greek guard hand hath Hautlieu heard Heaven Hereward honour husband Imperial John de Walton Lady Augusta Lady Bothwell lance look Lord manner matter means methinks minstrel noble occasion passed person possessed present Prince Princess rank replied respect Robert of Paris sacred Saint Bride Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir John soldier speak supposed sword Tancred tell thee thine thou art thou hast thought trust Ursel Varangian Varangian guard voice words young knight youth
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Página 293 - 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.
Página 266 - 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.
Página 314 - Tis shadow'd by his cowl ; But his eyes may be seen from the folds between, And they seem of a parted soul. But beware ! beware ! of the Black Friar, He still retains his sway, For he is yet the church's heir, Whoever may be the lay. Amundeville is lord by day, But the monk is lord by night ; Nor wine nor wassail could raise a vassal To question that friar's right.
Página 7 - 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.
Página 279 - While many a merry tale, and many a song, Cheer'd the rough road, we wish'd the rough road long. The rough road then, returning in a round, Mock'd our impatient steps, for all was fairy ground.
Página 293 - 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.
Página 317 - It is better to hear the lark sing than the mouse cheep." The streets, or rather the lanes, were dark, but for a shifting gleam of moonlight, which, as that planet began to rise, was now and then visible upon some steep and narrow gable. No sound of domestic industry, or domestic festivity, was heard...
Página 413 - I knew the last to be deceptions of my own fancy and overexcited nerves. " Day at last appeared, and I rose from my bed ill in health and humiliated in mind. I was ashamed of myself as a man and a soldier, and still more so, at feeling my own extreme desire to escape from the haunted apartment, which, however, conquered all other considerations; so that, huddling on my clothes with the most careless haste, I made my escape from your...