The Abbot: Being a Sequel of The MonasterySamuel G. Goodrich, and Huntington and Hopkins, 1821 - 285 pages |
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... desire of offspring implanted in the female breast . She pressed her hands together as if she was wringing them in the extremity of her desolate feeling , as one whom heaven had written childless . A large stag - hound of the greyhound ...
... desire of offspring implanted in the female breast . She pressed her hands together as if she was wringing them in the extremity of her desolate feeling , as one whom heaven had written childless . A large stag - hound of the greyhound ...
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... desire to keep him in the castle if possible . ' You mistake me , dame , ' she said , addressing the old woman in a sooth- ing manner ; I do not wish your boy to be in attendance upon myself , but on the good knight , my husband . Were ...
... desire to keep him in the castle if possible . ' You mistake me , dame , ' she said , addressing the old woman in a sooth- ing manner ; I do not wish your boy to be in attendance upon myself , but on the good knight , my husband . Were ...
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... desire such an attendant . - Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials - a la- dy's page - it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall , fan them when they slumber ...
... desire such an attendant . - Yet I have never loved to nurse such useless menials - a la- dy's page - it may well suit the proud English dames to have a slender youth to bear their trains from bower to hall , fan them when they slumber ...
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... desire which urged him to reply , in furious or in contemptuous language , returned his dagger into the scabbard , looked disdainfully around upon the assembled menials , turned short upon his heel , and pushing aside those who stood ...
... desire which urged him to reply , in furious or in contemptuous language , returned his dagger into the scabbard , looked disdainfully around upon the assembled menials , turned short upon his heel , and pushing aside those who stood ...
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... desire to resume the same absolute control over his motions -- a fear which her conduct of yesterday did not tend much to dissipate , weighed heavily against the joy of this second meeting . She cannot mean , said his rising pride , to ...
... desire to resume the same absolute control over his motions -- a fear which her conduct of yesterday did not tend much to dissipate , weighed heavily against the joy of this second meeting . She cannot mean , said his rising pride , to ...
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The Abbot: Being the Sequel to the Monastery (Classic Reprint) Walter Scott No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 102 - Unbonneting at the same time, he fixed his eager gaze on the Queen's approach, •with a mixture of respectful curiosity , and modest yet ardent admiration , which suited so well with his fine features , that the warders, struck •with his rich attire and noble countenance, suffered him to approach the ground over which the Queen was to pass , somewhat closer than was permitted to ordinary spectators.
Page 104 - It is no longer mine," said Walter; "when Your Majesty's foot touched it, it became a fit mantle for a prince, but far too rich a one for its former owner.
Page 103 - You have this day spoiled a gay mantle in our service, young man. We thank you for your service, though the manner of offering it was unusual, and something bold." "In a sovereign's need," answered the youth, ''it is each liegeman's duty to be bold.
Page 103 - ... by two or three ladies and the nobles of her household. She looked more than once at the wherry in which the young adventurer was seated, spoke to those around her, and seemed to laugh. At length one of the attendants, by the Queen's order apparently, made a sign for the wherry to come alongside, and the young man was desired to step from his own skiff into the Queen's barge, which he performed with graceful agility at the fore part of the boat, and was brought aft to the Queen's presence, the...
Page 101 - It was even so. The royal barge, manned with the Queen's watermen, richly attired in the regal liveries, and having the banner of England displayed, did indeed lie at the great stairs which ascended from the river, and along with it two or three other boats for transporting such part of her retinue as were not in immediate attendance on the royal person.
Page 188 - ... of this royal castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erected a gate-house or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief.
Page 102 - The night had been rainy, and just where the young gentleman stood, a small quantity of mud interrupted the Queen's passage. As she hesitated to pass on, the gallant, throwing his cloak from his shoulders, laid it on the miry spot, so as to insure her stepping over it dry-shod.
Page 103 - Go to the wardrobe keeper, and he shall have orders to supply the suit which you have cast away in our service. Thou shalt have a suit, and that of the newest cut, I promise thee, on the word of a princess.
Page 188 - The external wall of this royal castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward, over which he had erected...
Page 188 - We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, and now in the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate.