Waverley Novels, Volum 2Ticknor and Fields, 1867 |
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Frases i termes més freqüents
alarmed Alasco Amy Robsart answered Varney answered Wayland Anthony Foster apartment attend better betwixt Blount chamber command countenance Countess of Leicester court Cumnor Cumnor-Place devil door dress Earl of Leicester Earl of Sussex Earl's Elizabeth escape exclaimed eyes farther favour fear Flibbertigibbet followed Grace hall hand hastily hath head hear heard heart Heaven honour horse Hunsdon husband instant instantly Janet journey Kenilworth Castle lady Laneham Leicester's look Lord Hunsdon Lord Leicester Lord of Leicester lordship madam marriage Master Tressilian mercer Mervyn's Michael Lambourne mind mistress night noble once pageant pedlar person Pleasance pleasure present pursuivant Queen Raleigh rendered Robsart secret seemed shew silian silver Sir Richard Varney speak spoke stood Sussex sword thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought thyself Tony Foster Tower villain voice Wayland Smith woman words wouldst yonder
Passatges populars
Pàgina 17 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Pàgina 40 - I rose up with the cheerful morn, No lark more blithe, no flower more gay ; And, like the bird that haunts the thorn, So merrily sung the livelong day. "If that my beauty is but small, Among court ladies all despised, Why didst thou rend it from that hall, Where, scornful earl, it well was prized?
Pàgina 103 - The external wall of this royal Castle was, on the south and west sides, adorned and defended by a lake partly artificial, across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the C'astle by a path 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.
Pàgina 31 - ... twas sweet and refreshing to all around her. Her speech did win all affections. And again, she could put forth such alterations, when obedience was lacking, as left no doubting whose daughter she was. When she smiled, it was a pure sunshine, that every one did choose to bask in, if they could ; but anon came a storm, from a sudden gathering of clouds, and the thunder fell, in a wondrous manner, on all alike...
Pàgina 224 - Sincerity ! Thou first of virtues, let no mortal leave Thy onward path ! although the earth should gape, And from the gulph of hell destruction cry To take dissimulation's winding way.
Pàgina 102 - I were once rid of this peril," thought he, " and if any man shall find me playing squire of the body to a damoselerrant, he shall have leave to beat my brains out with my own sledge-hammer !" At length the princely Castle appeared, upon improving which, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand pounds sterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which...