The works of G.P.R. James, revised and corrected by the author, Volume 14 |
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Page 147 - ... five or six years in early youth, when fancy, passion, and inexperience forbid us to think, and teach us only to enjoy, may have a portion of chequered brightness; but the rest, alas! has its care for every day, and its anxiety for every hour. It is a weary place, this world to dwell in, and life hut a grim and discontented tenant of the house !" He paused, and looked at the papers again, but it seemed difficult for him to fix his mind upon them. " It is strange," he continued — " I am not...
Page 105 - Verona — peeping out from a narrow ring of jet black hair, scarcely streaked with grey. His face was large and jovial, which, in good sooth, was no distinction in those times between one friar and another ; but there was withal a look of roguish fun about the corners of his small grey eyes ; and a jeering smile, full of arch satire, quivered upon his upper lip, completely neutralizing the somewhat sensual and food-loving expression of the under one, which moved up and down every time he spoke,...
Page 107 - Hereford," replied he of the grey gown ; " whether you choose mead, or methcglin, or excellent warm Burgundy, or cool Bordeaux. Taste and try — taste and try ; and if you find that I have deceived you, you shall cut me into pieces not an inch square, and sow me along the high road ! There is good lodging, too. — Canst thou not trust a friar?" The man grumbled forth some reply not very laudatory of the order to which his fat friend belonged ; and in a few minutes after, the whole party were seated...
Page 191 - Montfort's battle; but the vast superiority of the enemy's numbers cast a shadow, as it were, upon the spirits of the soldiery, while in the hearts of the leaders was nothing but the certainty of defeat and death. Had it been any other body, perhaps, that opposed them but an English force, had any other generals commanded the adverse party but Edward and Gloucester, their confidence in their own courage and in their great leader might have taught them to look with hope even to the unequal struggle...
Page 2 - Before the door of the inn, spread out one of those pleasant open pieces of ground, which generally found room for themselves in every country village in England; on which the sports of the place were held ; to which the jockey brought his horse for sale, and tried his paces up and down ; on which many a wrestler took a fall, and cudgel-player got a broken head. There too, in their season, were the merry maypole and the dance, the tabor and the pipe. There was many a maiden wooed and won ; and there...
Page 196 - Bohun rose and regained his horse, his deliverer was killed by a quarrel from a crossbow. In another part, the King himself was assailed, and wounded by one of his own son's followers, who had even shortened his lance to pin him to the earth, as he lay prostrate before him, when, throwing back his...