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Page 233 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Page 207 - ... can be said to deserve such a title of terror. Even now, while attempting its description, I feel a passing tremor steal over me, akin to that which I invariably experienced when gazing upon the frightful and appalling reality. The lower entrance, being that through which the stream rushed to this gloomy cave, was about six feet square (if we may use such a term for that which was perfectly shapeless) ; and presented, from the opposite side of the river, a somewhat sublime appearance, as the...
Page 68 - ... comers. As the blazonry of the whole was alike unknown to him, he directed the point of his lance to the first on the row. Five golden lozenges upon a field gules, informed the learned in the science of heraldry, that it belonged to the descendant of the renowned conqueror of Brecknock, Bernard Newmarch, uterine brother of the still more renowned conqueror of England. Roger Newmarch, its present possessor, was a young knight of great promise and increasing fame, and who had, in the sports of...
Page 207 - Deep in the dreary dismall cell, Which seem'd and was ycleped hell, — *. This blear-eyed hag did hide : Nine wicked elves, as legends sayne, She chose to form her guardian trayne, And kennel near her side. Here screeching owls oft made their nest, While wolves its craggy sides possest, Night-howling...
Page 236 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset...
Page 86 - mid the throng of beauty which I see, there be not one at least that will graftt me her support ? My liege, there was a bright-eyed damsel once whose love I won, as this long-cherished pledge can testify ; I would now restore it her if she mistrusts the justness of my cause. Come hither, boy : go, bear this jewel to the Queen of Beauty ! " At these words the watchful Eric stepped forward to receive the ring which his master held forth to him, and advancing to the fair judge of the lists, laid it...
Page 72 - ... barrier, and with equal success. Again he rode up to the two remaining shields, one of which he was about to touch, when the judge of the lists flung down his warder, and announced that the passage of arms had already been won by the Knight of the Plumeless Helm ! This event produced no small commotion among the lords of the shield and lance, and a thousand guesses were formed as to who the stranger knight could be, not one of which as may readily be supposed proved correct. The herald solicited...
Page 52 - ... whereon they rested, or over which they passed, an air of Eastern and romantic splendour. Before them, on the other hand, the gossamer curtains of evening were slowly and regularly enveloping the different objects of creation in their fairy web, and giving to their thousand hues one dark and sober livery. The grass was already glittering with the falling dew ; the woodbine was closing its snowy blossoms, which during the day had peeped like stars from beneath the thick foliage of the wild underwood...
Page 56 - ... thy wish. Eight years ago, young as thou art thou may'st perhaps remember it — my liege, the warlike Edward, wrested from my hold the fair possessions of my ancestors — I was branded with the foul name of rebel, unknighted, and imprisoned. Justice is sometimes deaf as well as blind. Whilst my gallant sovereign tarried upon his return from Palestine, at the Sicilian court of Charles, his lady, Eleanor, received into her train the fairest and the proudest of the daughters of Britain : among...
Page 56 - The tear stood in young Eric's eye as he gave expression to his feelings, which the knight perceiving, once more addressed him. — " He that dares call thee such, will do it at his peril, while Gaston de Biern has power to aid thee ! Nor will I give thee any longer cause to think that I suspect thy loyalty : attend then, while I gratify thy wish. Eight years ago, young as thou art thou may'st perhaps remember it — my liege, the warlike Edward, wrested from my hold the fair possessions of my ancestors...