 The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp ; and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble...  Kenilworth. By the author of 'Waverley'. - Pàgina 121per sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - 1875 - 172 pàgines
...grand seignmir and the chatelaine held their court and lived in royal state; "where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won ! " More solemn helps to bring our thoughts in closer relation with things of the past came from tellings... | |
 | Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc - 1875 - 172 pàgines
...seigneur and the chatelaine held their court and lived in royal state; " where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won!" More solemn helps to bring our thoughts in closer relation with things of the past came from tellings... | |
 | Maria Welch Harris, H. D. Rumsey - 1876 - 284 pàgines
...to Kenilworth, of which Scott has written : — " Of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valor won, all is now desolate. The bed of the lake is a rushy swamp, and the massy ruins of the castle... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 598 pàgines
...in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, 375 that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 482 pàgines
...rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 414 pàgines
...rise in majesty and beauty. We cannot but add, that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...and the massive ruins of the castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1881 - 852 pàgines
...We cannot but add," says Sir Walter Scott, " that of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm...games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which ralour won, all is now desolate. The bed of the lake is now a rushy swamp, and ih« f196 LONDON UIKMINOHAM... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 602 pàgines
...lordly palace, where prince» feaated and heroes fought, now in the bloody earnest of storm and siege, now In the games of chivalry, where beauty dealt the prize which valor won, all is now desolate. The massy ruin« of the castle only serve to ehow what their splendor... | |
 | Frederick T. Gammon - 1882 - 214 pàgines
...Scott wrote in " Kenilworth," " Of this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, ... all is now desolate. The bed of the lake is but a...rushy swamp, and the massive ruins 'of the castle only show what their splendour once was, and impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human... | |
 | Geography reading books - 1882 - 216 pàgines
...to rise in majesty and beauty. ' Of all this lordly palace, where princes feasted and heroes fought, where beauty dealt the prize which valour won, all is now desolate ! 1 6. ' The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp ; and the ruins of the Castle only serve to show... | |
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