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Pàgina 211 - What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " saith the Lord God of Hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, " Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Pàgina 98 - Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up ? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
Pàgina 121 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death ? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth?
Pàgina 17 - ... with his eye, till the pages of both king and prince, coming closely after, intercepted his view. The Bastard of Orleans then appeared, armed from head to heel, and both himself and horse blazing with jewels. This splendid warrior led on the " battle " of the king, consisting of a thousand lances, all armed to the teeth, both man and horse. The long array was closed by an Esquire of the Stable, bearing a vermilion lance, spangled with gold stars, at the head of which there hung a standard of...
Pàgina 279 - ... found the sword and dagger lying flat on the ground, the sword having the point broken — but he saw the point among some powder where the devil had laid it. Having waited...
Pàgina 282 - ... property at the age of twenty, and, by the most prodigal and absurd extravagance, dissipated nearly the whole of it. Among other traits of his profuse expenditure, the establishment of his chapel has been recorded. It was composed of a " bishop," as he insisted upon calling his principal chaplain, a dean, a chanter, two archdeacons, four vicars, a schoolmaster, twelve chaplains, and eight choristers. All these followed in his suite wherever he travelled. Each one of them had his horse and his...
Pàgina 123 - Ah gentle Romeo, If thou love, pronounce it faithfully. Or if thou think I am too easily won, I'll frown and say thee nay and be perverse, So thou wilt woo, but else not for the world.
Pàgina 13 - It was echoed from mouth to mouth, from street to street. The women and children in the most distant quarters of the metropolis gave back the sound; the sick and the dying put aside their curtains, to gaze towards the window, and swell the shout with their feeble voices ; the clocktowers of...
Pàgina 15 - Angouleme, a Prince of the blood, of the house of Orleans. Montjoye, king of arms, came next ; a grave and august personage, shrouded in an immense robe of violet-coloured velvet, studded all over with golden fleurs-de-lys, and large pearls. After him rode the Grand Esquire, carrying the royal helmet, which was closed with a double fleur-delys of gold. So sumptuously were this personage and his horse arrayed, that he might have been mistaken for the hero of the scene himself; but following next in...
Pàgina 218 - ... he not been relieved by a gush of tears. The burning drops fell upon the hand of her father; but the old man remained as calm and firm as a statue. As for the attempt upon her life it was so sudden and unlocked for, that there was no time for interference even by a cry. "All goeth well," said the Jew, when the door had shut.