Philip Van Artevelde: A Dramatic Romance. In Two Parts, Tema 73E. Moxon, 1852 - 431 páginas |
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... do us no good to admire ; but let us admire all that can be admired without debasing the dispositions or stultifying the understanding . LONDON , May , 1834 . INTRODUCTION . IN the fourteenth century the Flemish towns were xxii PREFACE .
... do us no good to admire ; but let us admire all that can be admired without debasing the dispositions or stultifying the understanding . LONDON , May , 1834 . INTRODUCTION . IN the fourteenth century the Flemish towns were xxii PREFACE .
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... towns were not only asunder one from another , but each one was commonly divided by parties within itself . The towns consisted each of various crafts or guilds , as the weavers , the fullers , the clothiers , the mariners , & c . , and ...
... towns were not only asunder one from another , but each one was commonly divided by parties within itself . The towns consisted each of various crafts or guilds , as the weavers , the fullers , the clothiers , the mariners , & c . , and ...
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... towns was in rebellion , there was generally a peace - faction within it , which rose or fell in importance according to the varying circum- stances of military success or failure . In the year 1381 , the inhabitants of Bruges made ...
... towns was in rebellion , there was generally a peace - faction within it , which rose or fell in importance according to the varying circum- stances of military success or failure . In the year 1381 , the inhabitants of Bruges made ...
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... town , and John Lyon kept them still in that state , and to some he would say secretly , ' Hold you well content ; eat and drink , and make merry , and be not concerned at any thing you spend ; for hereafter such shall pay you as will ...
... town , and John Lyon kept them still in that state , and to some he would say secretly , ' Hold you well content ; eat and drink , and make merry , and be not concerned at any thing you spend ; for hereafter such shall pay you as will ...
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... was slain and the Earl's banner torn in pieces by the White - Hoods . Such was the beginning of a war which continued for several years between the Earl of Flanders and the town of Ghent , and in which the principal xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... was slain and the Earl's banner torn in pieces by the White - Hoods . Such was the beginning of a war which continued for several years between the Earl of Flanders and the town of Ghent , and in which the principal xxvi INTRODUCTION .
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Términos y frases comunes
ACKERMAN ADRIANA AESWYN amongst arms ARTEVELDE Artevelde's BOSCH BOURBON bring Bruges BULSEN BURGHER BURGOMASTER BURGUNDY CAPTAIN CECILE CLARA CONSTABLE D'ARLON Duke DUKE OF BOURBON DUKE OF BURGUNDY Earl of Flanders ELENA Enter Exeunt Exit FATHER JOHN Flemish FLEUREANT OF HEURLÉE France friar friends Ghent GILBERT MATTHEW give God's grace hand hath hear heard heart Heaven KING knight KORTZ lady LESTOVET live LOIS OF SANXERE look Lord of Arlon LORD OF COUCY Lord of Occo market-place master MESSENGER mind MUCK never Oudenarde pardon peace Philip PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE RAOUL OF RANEVAL ROOSDYK SCENE Scheldt seem'd SIR FLEUREANT SIR GUISEBERT SIR LOIS SIR RAOUL sleep soul speak stand STOCKENSTROM tell thee There's thine things thou hast thought to-morrow town Twas VAN DEN BOSCH VAN MUCK VAN RYK VAUCLAIRE wherefore whilst White-Hoods WOMAN word Ypres
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Página xvi - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 29 - He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend. Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them. Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out, There wisdom will not enter, nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Página 29 - Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks...
Página 1 - ... no navigation nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and, which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Página 122 - There lies a sleeping city, God of dreams ! What an unreal and fantastic world Is going on below ! Within the sweep of yon encircling wall How many a large creation of the night, Wide wilderness and mountain, rock and sea, Peopled with busy, transitory groups, Finds room to rise, and never feels the crowd.
Página 368 - And I perceived the river and the bridge, The mottled sky and horizontal moon, The distant camp, and all things as they were. Elena. If you are not afraid to see such things, I am to hear them. Go not near that bridge ; — You said that something happened there before — Oh, cross it not again. Artevelde. Not cross the bridge ? The river cannot otherwise be passed.
Página 39 - tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, echoing my father's name ? Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. Oh ! my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ; For that reminds me of a debt of blood Descended with my patrimony to me, Whose paying off would clear...
Página 29 - Whose story is a fragment, known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course...
Página 232 - Ordered the common weal ; where great men grew Up to their natural eminence, and none Saving the wise, just, eloquent, were great ; Where power was of God's gift, to whom he gave Supremacy of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administer'd, Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The tools of state for service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates.
Página 423 - Yet they do leave us. You behold me here, A man bereaved, with something of a blight Upon the early blossoms of his life, And its first verdure — having not the...