Tales of Chivalry and the Olden Time: Selected from the Works of Sir Walter ScottAmerican Book Company, 1887 - 153 ページ |
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abbey Abbotsford ancient answered Rebecca antagonist archers armor arms arrows ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCHE ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCHE CASTLE Asphaltites assailants ballads battle battle of Hastings Beaumanoir beautiful Black Knight Bois-Guilbert Bracy Brian brother called castle Cedric challengers champion chivalry Christian cross Crusaders defenders Disinherited Knight dost dress DRYBURGH ABBEY encounter England English eyes fair figure followed forest French Front-de-Bœuf Grand-Master Gurth hand hast head heart helmet Henry heralds Holy honor horse Hubert Ivanhoe Jewess Julius Cæsar King Lady Rowena lance language Latin length lists Locksley maiden Malvoisin means metaphor metonymy noble Norman noun pavilion person pilgrims play poem poet poetry Prince John replied Richard Richard III Roman round Roxburghe Castle rude Saint Saracen Saxon says scene seemed shaft Shakespeare shield shoot shot SIR WALTER SCOTT spectators sword Templar thee thou tion tournament trumpets vol.-The Wamba weapon word yeomen
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70 ページ - The knights are dust, And their good swords are rust, Their souls are with the saints, we trust.'* Their escutcheons have long mouldered from the walls of their castles.
42 ページ - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
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75 ページ - Have you confessed yourself, brother," said the Templar, "and have you heard mass this morning, that you peril your life so frankly?" "I am fitter to meet death than thou art," answered the Disinherited Knight ; for by this name the stranger had recorded himself in the books of the tourney. "Then take your place in the lists," said BoisGuilbert, "and look your last upon the sun; for this night thou shalt sleep in paradise.
104 ページ - all about him is black as the wing of the night raven. Nothing can I spy that can mark him further; but having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes to the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength — there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed ! It is fearful, yet magnificent,...
102 ページ - Knight," answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no! - the name of the Lord of Hosts be blessed! - he is on foot again, and fights as if there were twenty men's strength in his single arm - His sword is broken - he snatches an axe from a yeoman - he presses Front-de-Boeuf with blow on blow - The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman - he falls he falls!
101 ページ - I see him not," said Rebecca. "Foul craven!" exclaimed Ivanhoe; "does he blench from the helm when the wind blows highest?" "He blenches not! — he blenches not!" said Rebecca, "I see him now, he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they...
103 ページ - they bear themselves right yeomanly - the Black Knight approaches the postern with his huge axe - the thundering blows which he deals, you may hear them above all the din and shouts of the battle Stones and beams are hailed down on the bold champion - he regards them no more than if they were thistle-down or feathers!
37 ページ - Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and 1° here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song.