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Pàgina 75
... hitherto untrodden , instead of the usual entrance to the northward , over which
he had erected a gate - house or barbican , which still exists , and is equal in
extent and superior in architecture , to the baronial castle of many a northern
chief .
... hitherto untrodden , instead of the usual entrance to the northward , over which
he had erected a gate - house or barbican , which still exists , and is equal in
extent and superior in architecture , to the baronial castle of many a northern
chief .
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No hem trobat cap ressenya als llocs habituals.
Frases i termes més freqüents
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 239 - Flying between the cold moon and the Earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the West, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's...
Pàgina 72 - ... inner court, and bearing in the names attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which were there blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favourite, who had now acquired and was augmenting the fair domain. A large and massive Keep, which formed the citadel of the Castle, was of uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Caesar,...
Pàgina 182 - What man that sees the ever whirling wheel Of Chance, the which all mortal things doth sway, But that thereby doth find and plainly feel, How Mutability in them doth play Her cruel sports to many men's decay.
Pàgina 195 - It is no longer mine," said Walter; "when Your Majesty's foot touched it, it became a fit mantle for a prince, but far too rich a one for its former owner.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Kenilworth Volums 21-22 de Waverley Novels, Walter Scott |
| Autor | Walter Scott |
| Editor | Samuel H. Parker, 1836 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 7 Abr. 2008 |
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