Historical romances of the author of Waverley, Volume 2 |
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... Front - de - Bouf ? " said the latter , who had superintended the defence of the fortress on the other side ; " men ... Bœuf is with his fathers - a powerful limb lopped off Prince John's IVANHOE. ...
... Front - de - Bouf ? " said the latter , who had superintended the defence of the fortress on the other side ; " men ... Bœuf is with his fathers - a powerful limb lopped off Prince John's IVANHOE. ...
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... Front- de - Bœuf is dying too , so we shall receive no more aid from his bull's head and brutal strength . How think you , Sir Brian , were we not better make a virtue of necessity , and compound with the rogues by delivering up our ...
... Front- de - Bœuf is dying too , so we shall receive no more aid from his bull's head and brutal strength . How think you , Sir Brian , were we not better make a virtue of necessity , and compound with the rogues by delivering up our ...
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... Front - de- Bœuf , a hard and griping man , avarice was pre- dominant ; and he preferred setting church and churchmen at defiance , to purchasing from them pardon and absolution at the price of treasure and of manors . Nor did the ...
... Front - de- Bœuf , a hard and griping man , avarice was pre- dominant ; and he preferred setting church and churchmen at defiance , to purchasing from them pardon and absolution at the price of treasure and of manors . Nor did the ...
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... Front - de - Bœuf founded the convent of St Anne , robbing his heir of many a fair rood of meadow , and many a fat field and close -where be the greedy hounds now ? -Swilling , I warrant me , at the ale , or playing their juggling ...
... Front - de - Bœuf founded the convent of St Anne , robbing his heir of many a fair rood of meadow , and many a fat field and close -where be the greedy hounds now ? -Swilling , I warrant me , at the ale , or playing their juggling ...
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... Front - de - Bœuf- on rebellion , on rapine , on murder ! -Who stirred up the licentious John to war against his grey- headed father - against his generous brother ? " " Be thou fiend , priest , or devil , " replied Front- de - Bœuf ...
... Front - de - Bœuf- on rebellion , on rapine , on murder ! -Who stirred up the licentious John to war against his grey- headed father - against his generous brother ? " " Be thou fiend , priest , or devil , " replied Front- de - Bœuf ...
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Popular passages
Page 312 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 19 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war...
Page 19 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding— which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 182 - With priest's and warrior's voice between. No portents now our foes amaze, Forsaken Israel wanders lone : Our fathers would not know Thy ways, And Thou hast left them to their own. But present still, though now unseen ! When brightly shines the...
Page 183 - To temper the deceitful ray. And oh, when stoops on Judah's path In shade and storm the frequent night, Be THOU, long-suffering, slow to wrath, A burning, and a shining light! Our harps we left by Babel's streams, The tyrant's jest, the Gentile's scorn; No censer round our altar beams, And mute our timbrel, trump, and horn.