Knights and Their Days

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Redfield, 1856 - 479 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 83 - Never indeed was any man more contented with doing his duty in that state of life to which it had pleased God to call him.
Σελίδα 336 - Sweet speeches, comedies and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad. My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.
Σελίδα 342 - gainst the King of Heaven, To stamp his image in forbidden metal, Forgetting your allegiance and your oath ? In violating marriage' sacred law, You break a greater honour than yourself. To be a king is of a younger house Than to be...
Σελίδα 206 - Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces, or cheeks with both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities says, " He put his hands upon them, and he healed them.
Σελίδα 51 - The ladies' hearts began to melt, Subdued by blows their lovers felt. So Spanish heroes, with their lances, At once wound bulls
Σελίδα 315 - Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call Desdemona, enter giant.
Σελίδα 342 - As easy may my intellectual soul Be lent away, and yet my body live, As lend my body, palace to my soul, Away from her, and yet retain my soul. My body is her bower, her court, her abbey, And she an angel, pure, divine, unspotted ; If I should lend her house, my lord, to thee, I kill my poor soul, and my poor soul me.
Σελίδα 335 - Saunders, her body was by her express request dressed ' in a very fine Brussels lace head-dress, a holland shift with a tucker and double ruffles of the same lace, and a pair of new kid gloves, and was then wrapped in a winding-sheet of fine linen.
Σελίδα 314 - But there be no such comedians as we have here ; yet the women are the best actors, they play their own parts, a thing much desired in England by some ladies, inns o...
Σελίδα 132 - Nor much inclined to women ; his desires Are higher than his state, and his deserts Not much short of the most he can desire, If they be weigh'd with what France feels by them.

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