The Posthumous Works of Anne Radcliffe ...: Gaston de Blondeville (cont.) St. Alban's abbey: a metrical romanceH. Colburn, 1833 |
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Abbey Abbey's Abbot afar aisle Alban's Amphibalus arch arms band banners Baron beams bend beneath bier blazoned bleeding breathed brow CANTO castle chamber choir Clement cloister close coursers court dark dead death distant door dread Duke Richard's ESQUIRE faint fate Father fear Fitzharding Florence frown gallery GASTON DE BLONDEVILLE gazed glance gleam gloom grace grave grief guard hall Havock head heard heart Henry's hour Kenilworth King Henry King's knew Knight light lone look lord Lord De Clifford monks mournful murmur nigh noble o'er pale passed paused peace porch rest roof rose round Saint scene seemed seen Seneschal shade shadows shield shrine shroud sigh sight silent smile solemn sought sound spoke step stept stood strife sword tear thought throng tomb torch tower transept trembling turret Twas vaulted visage voice wait walls warrior watched Willoughton Woodreeve word wounded
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Página 112 - Caput apri defero Reddens laudes Domino. The boar's head in hand bring I, With garlands gay and rosemary. I pray you, all sing merrily Qui estis in convivio.
Página 100 - But ye, with measured step and slow, Whose smile is shaded soft with woe ; And ye, who holy joy can know, The glow beyond all other glow,— Ye, whose high spirit dares to dwell Beyond the reach of earthly spell, And tread upon the dizzy verge Of unknown worlds ; or downward urge, Through ages dim, your steadfast sight, And trace their shapes of shadowed light, O come " with meek submitted thought...
Página 23 - At these words cold drops stood on the King's forehead, and his eyes remained, fixed on the vacant air, where the countenance of the Baron had just appeared. At the same instant, these words of the distant requiem rose on his ear, " I go unto the dark lane ; that is covered with the mist of death, —a land of misery and darkness, where is the shadow of death and no order. The eye of man may no more behold me.
Página 83 - ... guard that followed them with potts of wine to fill the cuppes. The spice-plates were furnished in the most goodly manner with spices, after the manner of a voidee; and the cuppes were replenished with wine, and universally throughout the said hall distributed. The number of the said spice-plates and cuppes were goodly and marveylous, and yet the more to be wondred, for that the cupboard was nothing touched, but stood compleat, garnished and filled, seemingly not one diminished.
Página 71 - I could deliver to none but to the King himself; upon which the King said, " The esquire is in the right : for he ought not to deliver any letter or message to any but myself, he being at this time the chief officer of my house ; and if he had delivered the letter to any other, I should not have thought him fit for his place.
Página 228 - Where were his friends when he sunk low : Knew they no strange presaging woe ? Felt they no instinct of that hour, No touch of sympathy's deep power, Run o'er the shuddering nerves, and wake Tones from the heart, that anguish spake ? Like to that lyre's prophetic call, Self-sounding from the lonely wall, Whose only utterance was a sigh, To hint when death, or woe, was nigh. Ah, no ! they talked, or laughed, or sang, Unconscious of his dying pang. No eye wept o'er his lowly bier, The dew of heaven...
Página 79 - Queene, who were in the upper part of the same hall. There were within the same castle, disguised, viii goodly and fresh ladyes looking out of the windowes of the same.
Página 80 - ... vessell, as though it had been sayling in the sea ; and so passed through the hall by the whole length, till they came before the King, somewhat besides the said castle.
Página 86 - Her lays," says the Dissertation, " were extremely well received by the people. Denis Pyramus, an Anglo-Norman poet, and the contemporary of Mary, informs us, that they were heard with pleasure in all the castles of the English Barons, but that they were particularly relished by the women of her time. He even praises them himself.
Página 80 - King's majestic ; where when it had been conveyed it was sett somewhat out of the way towards the one side of the hall. " The second pageant was a shippe, likewise sett uppon wheels., without any leaders in sight: the same was in right goodly apparel, having her masts, toppes sayles, tackling, and all other appertyenances necessary unto a seemely...