Tales for the Parlour; Or, Records of Romance and Chivalry ...J.P. Peaslee, 1834 - 431 pages |
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Abencerrages Ahmed Almanzor Ananias Annette arms Arragon astrologer Aubigne beautiful began beheld Blaise blood Boabdil body brother Calverley companion count of Barcelona cried dark dear death Don Garcia Don Raimond door enemy exclaimed eyes fate father feelings felt Fiordiligi followed gallant gazed Goldner hand happy head heard heart heaven honor horse husband Ishmael Jacques Jews king king's knew Kuoni La Rochelle lady live looked Marshal Mary master Metempsychosis mind Montauban Muzio never night noble once passed person Pierre poor prince princess Pythagoras Rachael replied Rhampsinitus Rosanges rose Rose of Jericho Roundhead Ryder Sancio Saragossa Sawney Bean seemed silence Sir Edward Sir William smile soldier soon soul stood sword tell thee thing thou thought threw tion took uncle Vavasour voice Wetzlar wife William D'Avenant Wolstang words youth Zora Zounds
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Page 390 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, wanned and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 249 - Come prankling o'er the place. But (trust me, gentles,) never yet Was dight a masquing half so neat, Or half so rich, before ; The country lent the sweet perfumes, The sea, the pearl, the sky, the plumes, The town its silken store.
Page 407 - Behold, thou art wedded to me with this ring, according to the law of Moses and Israel.
Page 248 - But scant he lays him on the floor, When hollow winds remove the door, A trembling rocks the ground : And, well I ween to count aright, At once an hundred tapers light On all the walls around.
Page 250 - He spoke, and all a sudden there Light music floats in wanton air ; The monarch leads the queen : The rest their fairy partners found : And Mable trimly tript the ground With Edwin of the Green. The dauncing past, the board was laid, And siker such a feast was made, As heart and lip desire, Withouten hands the dishes fly, The glasses with a wish come nigh, And with a wish retire. But, now to please the...
Page 252 - Was never wight in sike a case, Through all the land before. But soon as Dan Apollo rose, Full jolly creature, home he goes, He feels his back the less ; His honest tongue and steady mind, Had rid him of the lump behind, Which made him want success. With lusty livelyhed he talks, He seems a...
Page 71 - ... dotingly fond of his wife, and he could not bear the idea of losing her. He promised to obey, and, having sold his little stock, bought an astrolabe, an astronomical almanac, and a table of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Furnished with these he went to the market-place, crying, " I am an astrologer ! I know the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and the twelve signs of the zodiac ; I can calculate nativities; I can foretell everything that is to happen ! " No man was better known than Ahmed the...
Page 254 - Till all the rout retreat. By this the stars began to wink, They shriek, they fly, the tapers sink, And down y-drops the knight: For never spell by fairy laid With strong enchantment bound a glade. Beyond the length of night. Chill, dark, alone, adreed, he lay, Till up the welkin rose the day, Then deem'd the dole was o'er: But wot ye well his harder lot ? His seely back the bunch had got Which Edwin lost afore.
Page 254 - Then Will, who bears the wispy fire To trail the swains among the mire, The caitive upward flung ; There like a tortoise in a shop He dangled from the chamber-top, Where whilome Edwin hung. The revel now proceeds apace...
Page 248 - And, if a shape could win a heart, He had a shape to win. Edwin, if right I read my song, With slighted passion...