IvanhoeRandom House Publishing Group, 29/08/2006 - 544 páginas Hailed by Victor Hugo as "the real epic of our age," Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and even operas. Now Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romance of medieval England has prompted a lavish new television production. In the twelfth century, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe returns home to England from the Third Crusade to claim his inheritance and the love of the lady Rowena. The heroic adventures of this noble Saxon knight involve him in the struggle between Richard the Lion-Hearted and his malignant brother John: a conflict that brings Ivanhoe into alliance with the mysterious outlaw Robin Hood and his legendary fight for the forces of good. "Scott's characters, like Shakespeare's and Jane Austen's, have the seed of life in them," observed Virginia Woolf. "The emotions in which Scott excels are not those of human beings pitted against other human beings, but of man pitted against Nature, of man in relation to fate. His romance is the romance of hunted men hiding in woods at night; of brigs standing out to sea; of waves breaking in the moonlight; of solitary sands and distant horsemen; of violence and suspense." For Henry James, "Scott was a born storyteller. . . . Since Shakespeare, no writer has created so immense a gallery of portraits." |
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Secção 19_ | 273 |
Secção 20_ | 287 |
Secção 21_ | 299 |
Secção 22_ | 361 |
Secção 23_ | 374 |
Secção 24_ | 383 |
Secção 25_ | 397 |
Secção 26_ | 448 |
Secção 9_ | 131 |
Secção 10_ | 141 |
Secção 11_ | 156 |
Secção 12_ | 169 |
Secção 13_ | 175 |
Secção 14_ | 191 |
Secção 15_ | 199 |
Secção 16_ | 218 |
Secção 17_ | 238 |
Secção 18_ | 247 |
Secção 27_ | 462 |
Secção 28_ | 487 |
Secção 29_ | 507 |
Secção 30_ | 508 |
Secção 31_ | 509 |
Secção 32_ | 510 |
Secção 33_ | 511 |
Secção 34_ | 512 |
Secção 35_ | 513 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbot answered armour arms Athelstane attendants Beaumanoir beauty betwixt Black Knight blood Bracy Brian de Bois-Guilbert brother called canst castle Cedric champion Christian companion Coningsburgh Copmanhurst daughter death Disinherited Knight dress England exclaimed eyes fair fate father favour fear forest Friar Friar Tuck Front-de-Bœuf Grand Master guest Gurth hand hath head heart Heaven hermit holy holy order honour horse Isaac Ivanhoe Jester Jewess Jorvaulx King knave Knight Templar knowest Lady Rowena lance lists Locksley look maiden Malvoisin noble Norman numbers outlaw preceptor priest Prince John Prior Aymer prisoner ransom Rebecca replied reverend Richard Richard Plantagenet Rotherwood Saracens Saxon seemed Sir Knight squire steed sword tell Templar Templestowe thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thou shalt thou wilt thyself tion trust valour voice Waldemar Fitzurse Wamba Wilfred wine wounded yeoman zecchins
Passagens conhecidas
Página 407 - But present still, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of Thee a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Página 294 - 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-Bceuf with blow on blow. The giant stoops and totters like an oak under the steel of the woodman — he falls — he falls !
Página 140 - He then took his aim with some deliberation, and the multitude awaited the 164I event in breathless silence. The archer vindicated their opinion of his skill: his arrow split the willow rod against which it was aimed. A jubilee of acclamations followed; and even Prince John, in admiration of Locksley's skill, lost for an instant his dislike to his person. "These twenty nobles...
Página 1 - IN THAT pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Página xxii - ... that extensive neutral ground, the large proportion, that is, of manners and sentiments which are common to us and to our ancestors, having been handed down unaltered from them to us, or which, arising out of the principles of our common nature, must have existed alike in either state of society.
Página xiv - Ivanhoe was suggested by an old rhyme. All novelists have had occasion at some time or other to wish with Falstaff that they knew where a commodity of good names was to be had. On such an occasion the Author chanced to call to memory a rhyme recording three names of the manors forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hampden, for striking the Black Prince a blow with his racket, when they quarrelled at tennis : Tring, Wing, and Ivanhoe, For striking of a blow, Hampden did forego, And glad he could...
Página 4 - 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, widebranched oaks, which had witnessed perhaps the stately march of the Roman soldiery, flung their gnarled arms over a thick carpet of the most delicious greensward ; 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...
Página 137 - Of twenty- four arrows shot in succession, ten were fixed in the target, and the others ranged so near it that, considering the distance of the mark, it was accounted good archery. Of the ten shafts which hit the target, two within the inner ring were shot by Hubert, a forester in the service of Malvoisin, who was accordingly pronounced victorious. "Now, Locksley...
Página 473 - But Ivanhoe was already at his post, and had closed his visor, and assumed his lance. Bois-Guilbert did the same ; and his esquire remarked, as he clasped his visor, that his face, which had, notwithstanding the variety of emotions by which he had been agitated, continued during the whole morning of an ashy paleness, was now become suddenly very much flushed. The herald, then, seeing each champion in his place, uplifted his voice, repeating thrice — " Faites vos devoirs preux chevaliers...
Página 8 - but how call you the sow when she is flayed, and drawn, and quartered, and hung up by the heels, like a traitor ? " " Pork," answered the swineherd. " I am very glad every fool knows that too...
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