 | 1820 - 760 pages
...century. We have read of bondsmen, serfs, and men ascripti gleba?, but we never saw them before. " The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we hare mentioned in the beginning of the chapter. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 pages
...of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the civil Wars of the Roses ; and here also flourished...deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses ; and here also flourished...deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 pages
...Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses j ana here also flourished in ancient times those bands...deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 576 pages
...of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate bait'es during the civil wars of the Roses ; and here also flourished in ancient times th6se bands of gallant, outlaws, whose deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being... | |
 | George Oliver - 1836 - 226 pages
...above passage without reverting to the opening scene in Scott's inimitable novel pf Ivanhoe : — " The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of the forest. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed, perhaps, the stately march of... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - 466 pages
...sunset upon a forest, with a conversation between Gurth the swineherd and Wamba the jester : — " The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of Sherwood Forest. Hundreds of broad short-stemmed oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 pages
...of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley ; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses; and here also flourished...deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 pages
...of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley; here were fought many of the most desperate battles during the Civil Wars of the Roses ; and here also flourished...deeds have been rendered so popular in English song. Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pages
...poetic prose who have appeared in modern times. The first is the well-known opening scene of Ivanhoe. " The sun was setting upon one of the rich grassy glades of that forest, which we have mentioned in the beginning of the chapter Hundreds of broad-headed, short-stemmed,... | |
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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 here also flourished in ancient times those bands of gallant outlaws, whose deeds... 
