Rufus, Or, The Red King. A Romance, Volume 2Saunders & Otley, 1838 |
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... head ! Raymond , I am a feeble girl , but yet , a daughter , and a Mowbray ; no despicable trembler at slight evils - no willing fugitive from a father's peril or adversity . But not for the sweetness of filial soothing am I recalled ...
... head ! Raymond , I am a feeble girl , but yet , a daughter , and a Mowbray ; no despicable trembler at slight evils - no willing fugitive from a father's peril or adversity . But not for the sweetness of filial soothing am I recalled ...
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... ! were it by the high altar of Newan Mynstre ! Fifty crowns let Stephen de Albemarle win and wear , if the fiends list to aid him , but not Constance de Mowbray ! I will wear his head upon my lance point first ! Pra- 12 RUFUS .
... ! were it by the high altar of Newan Mynstre ! Fifty crowns let Stephen de Albemarle win and wear , if the fiends list to aid him , but not Constance de Mowbray ! I will wear his head upon my lance point first ! Pra- 12 RUFUS .
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James Gregor Grant. wear his head upon my lance point first ! Pra- ting braggart , tongue - valiant fool that I am , to speak of it ere I have struck him dead ! But -saints of Heaven ! who plots to put a crown upon the brow of that ...
James Gregor Grant. wear his head upon my lance point first ! Pra- ting braggart , tongue - valiant fool that I am , to speak of it ere I have struck him dead ! But -saints of Heaven ! who plots to put a crown upon the brow of that ...
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... when from his semi- barbarous throne , he beheld the tribute of wolves ' heads , exacted from the Welsh , and paid , ac- cording to old tradition , annually within these towers , which , at length , drew their appellation RUFUS . 17.
... when from his semi- barbarous throne , he beheld the tribute of wolves ' heads , exacted from the Welsh , and paid , ac- cording to old tradition , annually within these towers , which , at length , drew their appellation RUFUS . 17.
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... head , " said Flambard , " lives to grow grey . This rider will leap both ditch and rampart , if he come fairly hither , and bend his knee but mid - way to the earth in the king's eye .. Tush , sirs ! there lacks but a 20 RUFUS .
... head , " said Flambard , " lives to grow grey . This rider will leap both ditch and rampart , if he come fairly hither , and bend his knee but mid - way to the earth in the king's eye .. Tush , sirs ! there lacks but a 20 RUFUS .
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Abbess Albemarle Alberic du Coci Aldery answered Baron behold betwixt bezant blood Broken Lance champion charger Coeur d'Acier Constance de Mowbray courser cried dark dost thou Dwarf of Carilbyne Earl Earl of Chester earth evil exclaimed fair fierce finger Flambard flung forest gallant gambeson gentle glade glance goodly grace grasp hand hast thou hath hauberk heart Heaven Hildebrand Hugh Lupus Hugh of Cluni Jodesac Justiciary King King's knightly Lady lance Liege lips look Lord Luke's face Marshal Matilda methinks Minstrel Monarch mond Montgomery Mowbray's noble Norman Nunna Mynstre once oxgangs Puckfist Ranulph Raymond Reginald de Lacy replied Robert de Mowbray royal Rufus saddle Saxon scorn shaveling Sir Alberic Sir Ilbert spirit Squire steed steel swear thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt Torfin towers trust Tunbridge villain voice Waleric Waleric's weeping Dwarf Weregild Winchester word yonder youth
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Página 73 - It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Página 16 - My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause...
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Página 16 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Página 97 - Sejanus' clients : there be two, Know more than honest counsels ; whose close breasts, Were they ripped up to light, it would be found A poor and idle sin, to which their trunks Had not been made fit organs. \These can lie, Flatter, and swear, forswear, deprave, inform, Smile, and betray ; make guilty men ; then beg The. forfeit lives, to get their livings ; cut Men's throats with whisperings...
Página 157 - As ever they myne were. To witness that this is sooth, I bite the white wax with my tooth, Before Jugg, Marode, and Margery, And my third son Henry, For one bow and one broad arrow, When I come to hunt upon Yarrow.
Página 94 - Yet well thy soul hath brook'd the turning tide With that untaught innate philosophy, Which, be it wisdom, coldness, or deep pride, Is gall and wormwood to an enemy. When the whole host of hatred stood hard by, To watch and mock thee shrinking, thou hast smiled With a sedate and all-enduring eye ; — When Fortune fled her spoil'd and favourite child, He stood unbowed beneath the ills upon him piled.
Página 240 - I gallop to the host." And to the fray he rode amain, Followed by all the archer train ; The fiery youth, with desperate charge, Made for a space, an opening large, — The rescued banner rose, — But darkly closed the war around ; Like pine-tree rooted from the ground, It sunk among the foes.
Página 219 - I have heard of a nobleman that has been drunk with a tinker, and of a magnifico that has plaid at blow-point.