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admirable Alarcos Alexandre Dumas Alfaqui arms assault Athelstane Athelstane's bartizan battle battle of Alarcos besiegers Bishop Blondel brave breach castle Cedric Christendom Christian Count of Chalus court courtiers cried dancing dead dear dirhems Don Beltran Edward the Confessor elixir England eyes father feelings fell fool friar gallant garrison Gurth hair heard heart hermit holy honour horse hundred hypocras Isaac of York Ivanhoe's Jewess King Canute King Richard King's knave knew knight Lady Rowena lance laugh lion-hearted looked lord LOUIS XVII Maid Marian Majesty married master melancholy monarch Moorish Moors never noble poor Wamba Prince ransom Rebecca REBECCA AND ROWENA rescued roared Roger de Backbite Rotherwood royal Saint Jago Saladin Saxon sing Sir Wilfrid slain slaying song sovereign sure sword Templars Templestowe Thane thee thou thought took valour Waltheof Wamba warrior Wilfrid of Ivanhoe WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY Xixona young
Popular passages
Page 44 - Wait till you come to Forty Year ! Forty times over let Michaelmas pass, Grizzling hair the brain doth clear — Then you know a boy is an ass, Then you know the worth of a lass, Once you have come to Forty Year. Pledge me round, I bid ye declare, All good fellows whose beards are...
Page 26 - Bishop walked the King with steps sedate, Chamberlains and grooms came after, silversticks and goldsticks great Chaplains, aides-de-camp, and pages, — all the officers of state. " Sliding after like his shadow, pausing when he chose to pause, If a frown his face contracted...
Page 29 - Canute turned towards the ocean — "Back! " he said, "thou foaming brine. "From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat ; Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy master's seat: Ocean, be thou still ! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet ! " But the sullen ocean answered with a louder deeper roar, And the rapid waves drew nearer, falling sounding on the shore ; Back the Keeper and the Bishop, back the King and courtiers bore. And he sternly bade them never more to kneel to...
Page 29 - Canute turned towards the ocean, — " Back ! " he said, '* thou foaming brine. ' From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat ; Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy master's seat ; Ocean, be thou still ! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet!
Page 27 - The King's arm-chair!" Then towards the lackeys turning, quick my lord the Keeper nodded, Straight the King's great chair was brought him, by two footmen able-bodied; Languidly he sank into it; it was comfortably wadded. "Leading on my fierce companions," cried he, "over storm and brine, I have fought and I have conquered! Where was glory like to mine?
Page 44 - Ho ! pretty page, with dimpled chin, / That never has known the barber's shear, All your aim is woman to win — This is the way that boys begin — Wait till you've come to forty year ! Curly gold locks cover foolish brains, Billing and cooing is all your cheer, Sighing and singing of midnight strains Under Bonnybells