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... probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity , and lay , some prostrate near their former site , and others on the side of the hill . One large stone only had found its way to the bottom ; and in stopping the course of a small ...
... probably by the zeal of some convert to Christianity , and lay , some prostrate near their former site , and others on the side of the hill . One large stone only had found its way to the bottom ; and in stopping the course of a small ...
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... probably aided nature . These locks were braided with gems , and , being worn at full length , intimated the noble birth and free - born condition of the maiden . A golden chain , to which was attached a small reliquary of the same ...
... probably aided nature . These locks were braided with gems , and , being worn at full length , intimated the noble birth and free - born condition of the maiden . A golden chain , to which was attached a small reliquary of the same ...
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... probably fasted longest , yet the hermit fair- ly surpassed him . " Holy Clerk , " said the knight , when his hun- ger was appeased , " I would gage my good horse yonder against a zecchin , that that same honest keeper to whom we are ...
... probably fasted longest , yet the hermit fair- ly surpassed him . " Holy Clerk , " said the knight , when his hun- ger was appeased , " I would gage my good horse yonder against a zecchin , that that same honest keeper to whom we are ...
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... probably already discovered , that the Black Knight of the Fetterlock is no other than Richard of the Lion Heart himself ; -and basely de- spatches a band of mercenaries to beset and assassinate him in the woods , before he has an ...
... probably already discovered , that the Black Knight of the Fetterlock is no other than Richard of the Lion Heart himself ; -and basely de- spatches a band of mercenaries to beset and assassinate him in the woods , before he has an ...
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... probably take a more extended view of the history and consequences of our present system of taxation ; but in this we mean only to lay be- fore our readers its plain and undeniable results ; and to suggest , without arguing upon them ...
... probably take a more extended view of the history and consequences of our present system of taxation ; but in this we mean only to lay be- fore our readers its plain and undeniable results ; and to suggest , without arguing upon them ...
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Page 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 10 - 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.
Page 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
Page 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
Page 38 - 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 are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
Page 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...