Waverley Novels, Հատոր 46Robert Cadell, Edinburgh, and Whittaker & Company London., 1833 |
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Achilles Tatius Agelastes Alexius Comnenus Anglo-Dane Anglo-Saxon Anna Comnena answered the Varangian armour arms army barbarian battle battle-axe beautiful Bohemond brave Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called command companion comrades Constantinople Count of Paris Count of Vermandois Count Robert Countess courage court crusaders danger daughter death desire Diogenes dungeon duty Emperor empire enemy expressed eyes fair faith father fear Follower Frank gallant gian Godfrey of Bouillon Grecian Greek guard hand hath head hear heard Heaven Hereward honour husband infidels JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM knight lady Lances Laodicea leader look manner means methinks nature never Nicephorus Briennius noble Normans occasion officer palace pass permit person philosopher present prince rank replied Robert of Paris Roman sacred seemed slave soldier speak stranger thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought throne tion tone valiant valour Varan Varangian Guard voice wife words XLVI Zosimus
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Էջ 118 - tis no sunny shower, Foster•d in the moist breast of March or April, Or such as parched Summer cools his lips with : Heaven's windows are flung wide : the inmost deeps Call in hoarse greeting one upon another ; On comes the flood in all its foaming horrors, And Where's the dike shall stop it I The Deluge, a Poim.
Էջ x - Yet instead of the simplicity of style and narrative which wins our belief, an elaborate affectation of rhetoric and science betrays in every page the vanity of a female author. The genuine character of Alexius is lost in a vague constellation of virtues ; and the perpetual strain of panegyric and apology awakens our jealousy, to question the veracity of the historian, and the merit of her hero.
Էջ 152 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Էջ 20 - Piracy," says Gibbon, with his usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue of the Scandinavian youth. Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their ships, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement."* The...
Էջ xii - The increase of the male and female branches of his family adorned the throne and secured the succession ; but their princely luxury and pride offended the patricians, exhausted the revenue, and insulted the misery of the people. Anna is a faithful witness that his happiness was destroyed and his health...
Էջ xii - It was the wish of Irene to supplant the eldest of her sons in favour of her daughter, the Princess Anna, whose philosophy would not have refused the weight of a diadem. But the order of male succession was asserted by the friends of their country ; the lawful heir drew the...
Էջ 3 - This last passage is worked up in the tragedy itself, as follows: LEONTIUS. —That power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it; A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states.