Romance of Biography: Illustrated in the Lives of Historic PersonagesFrancis Lister Hawks J.S. Dickerson, 1855 - 273 sivua |
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Sivu 242 - tis comfort to complain. Friends have I store, and promises abound. Shame on the niggards ! Since these winters twain, Unransomed, still I bear a tyrant's chain. Full well they know, my lords and nobles all,• Of England, Normandy, Guienne, Poictou, Ne'er did I slight my poorest vassal's call, • But all, whom wealth could buy, from chains withdrew. Not in reproach I speak, nor idly vain, But I alone unpitied bear the chain. My fate will show, " the dungeon and the grave Alike repel our kindred...
Sivu 27 - Raise thy voice like a trumpet, that thy sons may hear thee; for the day is at hand when thy sons shall deliver thee, and when thou shalt see thy native land again.
Sivu 243 - But all, whom wealth would buy, from chains withdrew. Not in reproach I speak, nor idly vain, But I alone unpitied bear the chain. My fate will show, "the dungeon and the grave Alike repel our kindred and our friends." Here am I left their paltry gold to save ! Sad fate is mine ; but worse their crime attends, Their lord will die; their conscience shall remain, And tell how long I wore this galling chain.
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Sivu 252 - I forgive him (said the king), and hope' I shall as easily forget his injuries, as he will my pardon.
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Sivu 231 - Stretching out his arms, before the last white summit had faded from his view, he cried, — " Most Holy Land, I commend thee to God's keeping. May He give me life and health to return and rescue thee from the Infidel.
Sivu 31 - Sir Bertrand, thou mightest well lose thy wits because of my son, for he loved thee...
Sivu 192 - Alamut) young men are educated in the secret tenets and pleasures, instructed in various languages, and then sent, armed with their daggers, throughout the world, to murder Christians and Saracens without distinction; either from hatred, as being enemies of their order, or to please its friends, or for the sake of a rich reward. Those who had sacrificed their lives in the fulfilment of this duty, were adjudged to greater happiness in Paradise, as being martyrs; their surviving relations were loaded...