Highways and Byways in Devon and CornwallMacmillan and Company, 1898 - 391 páginas |
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Página 187 - ... execution of them as far as they would pursue. But, after that advantage, they were always more sparing than is usually known in civil wars, shedding very little blood after resistance was given over, and having a very noble and Christian sense of the lives of their brethren : insomuch as the common men, when they have been pressed by some fiercer officer, to follow the execution, have answered, " they could not find in their hearts to " hurt men who had nothing in their hands.
Página 318 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare whom hounds and horns pursue Pants to the place from whence at first she flew, I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return - and die at home at last.
Página 205 - ... and then he threw the sword as far into the water, as he might ; and there came an arm and...
Página 205 - And so then they rowed from the land, and Sir Bedivere beheld all those ladies go from him. Then Sir Bedivere cried : Ah my lord Arthur, what shall become of me, now ye go from me and leave me here alone among mine enemies? Comfort thyself, said the king, and do as well as thou mayest, for in me is no trust for to trust in ; for I will into the vale of Avilion to heal me of my grievous wound : and if thou hear never more of me, pray for my soul.
Página 170 - I OFT have heard of Lydford law, How in the morn they hang and draw, And sit in judgment after : At first I wondered at it much ; But since I find the reason such, As it deserves no laughter.
Página 132 - He had no sooner set the cup out of his hand, but a demi-culverin shot struck away the cup and a cooper's plane that stood by the mainmast, and ran out on the other side of the ship ; which nothing dismayed our General, for he ceased not to encourage us, saying, " Fear nothing ! For GOD, who hath preserved me from this shot, will also deliver us from these traitors and villains!
Página 171 - If thou stay but a little fit, But five years more, they will commit The whole town to a prison. To see it thus, much grieved was I : The proverb saith, sorrows be dry...
Página 240 - Dory was fitted, the porter was witted, to let him in thereat-a. The first man that John Dory did meet, was good King John of France-a ; John Dory could well of his courtesie, but fell down in a...
Página 205 - Then Sir Bedivere departed, and went to the sword, and lightly took it up, and went to the waterside, and there he bound the girdle about the hilts, and then he threw the sword as far into the water as he might, and there came an arm and a hand above the water, and met it, and caught it, and so shook it thrice and brandished, and then vanished away the hand with the sword in the water.
Página 205 - Therefore, said Arthur unto Sir Bedivere, take thou Excalibur, my good sword, and go with it to yonder water side, and when thou comest there I charge thee throw my sword in that water, and come again and tell me what thou there seest.