The Albigenses, a Romance. By the Author of "Bertram" ...Bliss and White, 1824 |
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abbess agony Albigeois amid answered arms band banners bartizan Beaucaire beauty beheld Bishop of Toulouse blood caldron canst Castle of Tarascon chamber city of Tarascon Comminges corse Count of Toulouse Count Raymond cried Genevieve Crusaders damsel dark Dauphin door exclaimed eyes faith fearful fell fiend fierce flames Foix France gazed Genevieve's hags hand hath head heard heart Heaven heretic holy honour horror Hugues Ingelberg King Philip lady Lambert de Limons lances liege light look Lord of Courtenaye maiden men-at-arms methinks Monfort Monk of Montcalm mortal never noble knight oriflamme Paladour pale perish prelate Prince Lewis prisoner queen Raymond of Toulouse rein reverend mother ride rode royal sable seemed Simon de Montfort Sir Amirald Sir Aymer Sir Knight sound spirit spoke steed stood thee thine thou art thou hast thou wilt thyself tidings torches tower trembling uttered vassals Vaugelas vieve voice walls words wound youth
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Page 144 - Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry.
Page 52 - In far off fields and waves, Where the worm and the sea-bird only know your bed, To haunt this spot where all Those eyes that wept your fall, And the hearts that wail'd you, like your own, lie dead?
Page 62 - Tis of heaven's fastening : well may we raise jars, Jealousies, strifes, and heart-burning disagreements, Like a thick scurf o'er life, as did our master Upon that patient" miracle ; but the work itself Our power cannot disjoin.
Page 109 - Lady of the Lake. OUR battle will be told with greater clearness, if the reader is furnished with an outline of its order. As has been more than once intimated already, Sir Frederick Dashwood had made all his preparations to commence the assault from the side of the land, the object being to prevent a retreat...
Page 53 - ... and melancholy conversation that followed, she eloquently painted the progress of that disastrous passion which bestowed on its victims immortality and wretchedness. At its close she read to Genevieve part of a letter she had been writing, and of which every page was blotted with her tears. ' Deum testem invoco, si Augustus universum praesidens mundum, matrimonii honore dignaretur, totumque mihi orbem confirmaret in perpetuo praesidendum, charius mihi ac dignius videretur, tua dici arnica,* quam...
Page 188 - tis wondrous horrid! now My lawless love, and boundless pow'r reproach me. But I will think no more on't. Come, my Friends, Let's meet these Romans, and my Rebel-Son; 190 Let's kill till we are weary, then lye down And rest for ever; O 'tis Noble Ruine!