Count Robert of Paris and Castle DangerousRobert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Company, London., 1832 - 330 pages |
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Achilles Tatius Agelastes alarm Alexius Comnenus ancient Anna Comnena appearance archer arms Aymer de Valence Blacquernal Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called Castle of Douglas combat command Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert countenance Countess daughter death degree Dickson Douban Douglas Castle dungeons duty Emperor empire Empress English eyes Fabian faithful fate father favour fear feel garrison governor Greek Greek fire hand hath heard Heaven Hereward honour hope Hugonet husband Immortal Immortal Guards Imperial John de Walton lady Lemnos look lord ment methinks mortal nature Nicephorus Briennius noble Palæstra pardon pass person physician Prince Tancred Princess Proto-spathaire purpose rendered replied Robert of Paris Scotland Scottish seemed Sir Aymer Sir John Sir Knight Sir Minstrel soldier stood suffer supposed thee thine thou art thou hast thou mayst tion trust Ursel Varangian guard voice wild word young knight
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Page 334 - 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.
Page 334 - They parted — ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — 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.
Page 109 - It came flying through the air," says that good knight, " like a winged dragon, about the thickness of a hogshead, with the report of thunder and the speed of lightning, and the darkness of the night was dispelled by this horrible illumination.
Page 235 - 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.
Page 18 - WILL you hear a Spanish lady. How shee wooed an English man ? Garments gay as rich as may be Decked with jewels she had on. Of a comely countenance and grace was she, And by birth and parentage of high degree.
Page 268 - This night, methinks, is but the daylight sick. It looks a little paler ; 't is a day Such as the day is when the sun is hid.
Page 201 - Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science, betrays in every page the vanity of a female author.
Page 166 - Curious, not knowing, not exa.ct, but nice, Form short .ideas, and offend in arts (As most in manners) by a love to parts. Some to Conceit alone their taste confine, And...