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The Merry Wiues of Windsor

By: William Shakespeare

...retions with it. There is 46 Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas Page, 47 which is pretty virginity. 48 Slen. Mistri... ...pise one that is false, or as I despise one that is not 68 true: the Knight Sir Iohn is there, and I beseech you be 69 ruled by your well... ... Shallow, you’ll complaine of me to 106 the King? 107 Shal. Knight, you haue beaten my men, kill’d my 108 deere, and broke open my... ...Souldier- like phrase; but I say, loue me: 565 By me, thine owne true Knight, by day or night: 566 Or any kinde of light, with all his might... ... would but goe to hell, for an eternall 595 moment, or so: I could be knighted. 596 Mi.Page. What thou liest? Sir Alice Ford? these 59... ...ed. 596 Mi.Page. What thou liest? Sir Alice Ford? these 597 Knights will hacke, and so thou shouldst not alter the ar-ticle 598 of...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

... opposition to preconceived associations; I have, therefore, like a maiden knight with his white shield, assumed for my hero, Waverley, an uncontamina... ... propinquity between the house of W averley-Honour and the doughty barons, knights, and squires, to whom they stood allied; if (notwithstanding his ob... ...om, usually hung over the chimney in the library, beneath a picture of the knight and his horse, where the features were almost entirely hidden by the... ...night and his horse, where the features were almost entirely hidden by the knight’s profusion of curled hair, and the Bucephalus which he bestrode con... ...and embarrass- ing sense, one meaning de facto, and the other de jure, the knight filled up the blank otherwise)—’the Church of En- gland, and all con... ...e Christian Sol- dier, or Heaven Taken by Storm; and it was written by Mr. Thomas Watson. Guessing by the title of it that he would find some phrases ... ...But the rope broke with the fifth, who was a tall lusty man. The sixth was Thomas Barrow, a brave young Englishman, a particular friend of Home’s. Det... ...o was close to the Prince, left a strong attestation, that he had seen Sir Thomas Sheridan seize the bridle of his horse, and turn him round. There is...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...she said, she hated the broad words Martha had used. One who craved a true knight to be twitted with a sweetheart! Martha and T om Madison were almost... ...’ said Lord Ormersfield. ‘A boy that would be a boy all his life, like Sir Thomas More’s son!’ said Louis, coolly and simply, but with a twinkle in th... ...them. Such a scrape I got into! Well, then Miss Salter, whose father is a knight, and who thinks herself the great lady of the school, always bridled... ...loof, comparing the prostrate figure in blue and silver to all the wounded knights in history or fiction. He was past going in to dinner, and the part... ...existence. The story went back to the troubadour days of Provence, where a knight, the heir of a line of shattered fortunes, was betrothed to the heir... ... They agreed to sacrifice themselves, that restitution should be made; the knight to go as a crusader to the Holy Land; the lady, after waiting awhile...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round T... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Eighteen A Penn State Electronic Classics S... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Eighteen by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Eighteen by Sir Thomas Malory, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...tunity university. 3 Le Morte Darthur – Book Eighteen Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knig... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Eighteen BOOK XVIII CHAPTER I Of the joy Ki... ...old love again. S o after the quest of the Sangreal was fulfilled, and all knights that were left alive were come again unto the Table Round, as the b... ...n his mind so set inwardly to the queen as he was in seeming outward to 4 Thomas Malory God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Sangr... ...e queen as he was in seeming outward to 4 Thomas Malory God, there had no knight passed him in the quest of the Sangreal; but ever his thoughts were ...

...queen had of the achievement of the Sangreal; and how Launcelot fell to his old love again. So after the quest of the Sangreal was fulfilled, and all knights that were left alive were come again unto the Table Round, as the book of the Sangreal maketh mention, then was there great joy in the court; and in especial King Arthur and Queen Guenever made great joy of the remnan...

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Le Morte Darthur

By: Thomas Malory

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round T... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Seven A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Seven by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ... electronic transmission, in any way. Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Seven by Sir Thomas Malory, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Ser... ...opportunity university. 3 Le Morte Darthur – Book VII Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knig... ... by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Seven BOOK VII CHAPTER I How Beaumains came... ...half. Then Sir Gawaine went unto the king and said, Sir, go to your 4 Sir Thomas Malory meat, for here at the hand come strange adventures. So Arthur... ...So Arthur went unto his meat with many other kings. And there were all the knights of the Round Table, [save] only those that were prisoners or slain ... ...e wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damosel which desired a knight to fight for a lady. T hereat was Sir Gawaine wroth, and in especial...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Th... ...ansmission, in any way. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsyl- vania State University, Electronic Classics... ...says and Other Papers – V olume Two THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ET... ...en the two nations as to the language of their several churches and law 5 Thomas de Quincey courts. The process of ordination and induction is totall... ...erchant, who basely paid for what he took. It was plainly asking—Are you a knight grand-cross of some martial order, or a sort of costermonger? And we... ...at it is that we mean by Radcliffian romance. The old ancestral romance of knightly adventure, the Sangreal, the Round T able, &c., exists for Souther...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...ngdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be ... ...Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Man... ...it very thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir Thomas Bertram had interest, which, from principle as well as pride—from a ... ...ss, and bestowed such very disrespectful reflec- tions on the pride of Sir Thomas as Mrs. Norris could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all... ...the eleven following years, or, at least, to make it very wonderful to Sir Thomas that Mrs. Norris should ever have it in her power to tell them, as s... ...nse To Templars modesty, to Parsons sense. I will parody them— Blest Knight! whose dictatorial looks dispense 138 Mansfield Park To Children... ...name of Edmund. It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.” ...

...Excerpt: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed...

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The Prince and the Page

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...y my single arm, whom, ac- cording to all laws of chivalry, thine own true knight thus lays at thy feet, fair lady mine, to be disposed of at thine ow... ...o maintain its honour. My page once, wilt thou be so again? and one day my knight—my trusty baron?” “How can I?” said Richard, still in the same under... ...DGE ODGE “Ever were his sons hawtayn, And bold for their vilanye; Bothe to knight and sweyn Did they vilanye.” —Old Ballad of Simon de Montforte. FOR ... ...cious enemy, and was much taken by surprise to find him a graceful courtly knight, peculiarly gentle in manner, loving music, romances, and all chival... ... his father had told him that here he would see the mirror of all that was knightly and virtuous; and had added, on the loud outcry of the more prejud... ...- cess. “Was there not a time when thou didst overhear him concerting with Thomas de Clare the plan of an escape, and thou didst warn them that thou w... ... Savoy Palace had been built for Queen Eleanor’s ob- noxious uncle, Prince Thomas of Savoy, and had recently been purchased by the Queen herself, as a... ...ke her back, as well as somewhat put out of countenance by the laughter of Thomas de Clare, and other young nobles, who rallied him on his strange cha...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

................................................................... 151 TO MR THOMAS SOUTHERN,76 ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742 ..................................... ... to this by the fact, that after Henry Cromwell’s death, his mistress, Mrs Thomas, who was in indigent circumstances, had sold the letters which had p... ...s prize, And all to one loved folly sacrifice. Once on a time, La Mancha’s knight, 14 they say, A certain bard encountering on the way, Discoursed in... ...s. Our author, happy in a judge so nice, Produced his play, and begg’d the knight’s advice; Made him observe the subject, and the plot, The Manners, P... ...a combat in the lists left out. ‘What! leave the combat out?’ exclaims the knight. ‘Yes, or we must renounce the Stagyrite.’ 280... ....’ 280 ‘Not so, by Heaven!’ (he answers in a rage); ‘Knights, squires, and steeds must enter on the stage.’ ‘So vast a throng th... ...ess’d; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well express’d; 14 ‘La Mancha’s knight:’ taken from the spurious second part of ‘Don Quixote.’ 62 The Poet... ...nd Thomists:’ two parties amongst the schoolmen, headed by Duns Scotus and Thomas Aquinas. 18 ‘Duck-lane:’ a place near Smithfield, where old books w... ...al Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One T T T T TO MR O MR O MR O MR O MR THOMAS SOUTHERN, THOMAS SOUTHERN, THOMAS SOUTHERN, THOMAS SOUTHERN, THOMAS ...

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Catherine de Medici

By: Honoré de Balzac

...d corrupted, Falstaff was one of the most distinguished men of his time, a Knight of the Garter, holding a high com- mand in the army. At the accessio... ...relled, and the crew were under the command of a prior of the order of the Knights of Rhodes. The house- 23 Balzac hold of the Pope were in three oth... ...e king called an assembly at Lyon of all the princes of his blood, all the knights of his order, and other great per- sonages of the kingdom; also the... ...hereaus of Geneva, the Sydneys and Straffords of England, the murderers of Thomas a Becket, the Jacques Coeurs, the Jeanne d’Arcs, the Richelieus, Dan... ...e accession of Henri II., the chateau de Chenonceaux, built by his father, Thomas Bohier, a council- lor of state under four kings: Louis XI., Charles... ...rmandie, maintained with a bold hand the royal races, and sometimes simple knights like du Glaicquin refused the purple, prefer- ring the sword of a c... ...asure, while at the same time they admire the magnificent structure of the knightly king. The elegance of the two staircases which are placed at each ...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...he who had bought the chaplet of pearls, the King’s gift to the bravest of knights. The tidings were heard in the midst of war and confusion, and so f... ...or’s: but Eustace had foreseen this, and made arrangements with a good old knight and his lady, Sir Francis Ommaney, always to call for my sister on t... ...w Macniven, who had made his way through the mob like a brave old Scottish knight, brought us word that he could assure us that our own Queen was safe... ...dancing as frantically as ever. It was to his wife and me that the English knight told his adventures; Annora and M. Darpent had drawn apart on the op... ...he Dukes. The regiment sent by the Cardinal to occupy the place was Prince Thomas of Savoy’s gendarmes, and as of course they loved such generals as T... ... the daughter of Anselme de Ribaumont the Crusader, and of the ‘Bravest of Knights,’ who gained the chaplet of pearls before Calais. ‘Crusader!’ said ... ...duced, I would almost have gone the length of praising Mr. Hampden and Sir Thomas Fairfax to complete the work; instead of which I stupidly bethought ...

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Guy Mannering

By: Sir Walter Scott

...shortly after its erection. Our adventurer was therefore compelled, like a knight-errant of old, to trust to the sagacity of his horse, which, without... ... patriots, and sustained great losses in that behalf. He had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by his most sacred majesty, and was sequestra... ... agent, that had a vote upon my estate, ranked as a good vote for auld Sir Thomas Kittlecourt. But, to return to what I was saying, Luckie Howatson is... ...ce and misprision.” “Truly,” said Sampson, “I opine with Sir Isaac Newton, Knight, and umwhile [Late] master of his Majesty’s mint, that the (pretende... ...e of 40 Guy Mannering magical origin? Or is it possible, as Bacon and Sir Thomas Browne admit, that there is some truth in a sober and regu- lated as... ...im to the county jail—and that cost me eneugh o’ siller—But I ken what Sir Thomas wants very weel—it was just sic and siclike about the seat in the ki... ...annering, there was the story about the road, and the fauld-dike—I ken Sir Thomas was behind there, and I said plainly to the clerk to the trustees th... ...’ their clan at their heels—they had better have gaen to Jamaica, like Sir Thomas Kittlecourt’s uncle—and how they brought hame relics, like those tha... ... for them from the various fairs he had visited in his peregrinations. Our knight of the broken head first kissed and hugged them all round, then dist...

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The Moon and Sixpence

By: Somerset Maugham

...like a Monseratt of the Pacific, and you may imagine that there Polynesian knights guard with strange rites mysteries unholy for men to know. The beau... ... at last he finds rest. I told Tiare the story of a man I had known at St. Thomas’s Hospital. He was a Jew named Abraham, a blond, rather stout young ... ...n he had every intention of returning to London and his appointment at St. Thomas’s. One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he ... ...n short leave. I ran across him in the street and congratulated him on the knighthood with which his eminent services during the war had been rewarded... ... dozen hos- pitals. I should think he earned ten thousand a year , and his knighthood was but the first of the honours which must inevitably fall to h... ...in with him. When he was appointed Registrar at 200 The Moon and Sixpence Thomas’s I hadn’t a chance of getting on the staff. I should have had to be... ...f the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight? 201 Somerset Maugham Chapter LII TIARE, when I told her this story...

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Twelve Stories and a Dream

By: H. G. Wells

...and sixpence, according to size. These panoplies on cards are for juvenile knights-errant and very useful—shield of safety, sandals of swiftness, helm... ..., and snapped clean across, as though Chance refused him any longer as her Knight, and the splintered end missed his face by an inch or so. He was on ... ...rm, at which Fanny laughed gleefully. They were travelling with one of Mr. Thomas Gunn’s par- ties—fourteen days in Rome for fourteen pounds. They did...

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Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

...roduced like a peer to the upper house, or led between two brethren like a knight of the garter; but I do know that every thing was properly done, and... ...xplain. Her father had been christened Vesey, as another man is christened Thomas; and she had no more right to assume it than would have the daughter... ... know what was the custom of the lady of Branksome— “Nine and twenty knights of fame Hung their shields in Branksome Hall.” The lady of U... ...urred to her that her favourite quintain was but a modern copy of a Norman knight’s amusement, an adaptation of the noble tourney to the tastes and ha... ...red the quintain; and Miss Thorne determined to trust wholly to a youthful knight of hers, an immense favourite, who, as she often declared, was a pat... ...Mr Stanhope is not going to leave us. He will stand behind you like a true knight as he 372 Barchester Towers is. And now I think of it, Mr Arabin, l... ...were con- cerned. ‘So says I, ’ said Mrs Guffern; ‘and so says my good-man Thomas Guffern, when he hear’d it. “Molly,” says he to me, “if ever you tak... ...em ways, I begs you won’t come back no more to the old house.” So says I, “Thomas, no more I wull.” “But,” says he, “drat it, how the deuce does she m...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in many of which latter you might read inscriptions to... ...the Sovereign and the Duke of Y ork; and the colonel and alderman had been knighted. His son had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- en... ... Bear in Piccadilly, and saw the dew rising up from the market- gardens of Knightsbridge—how Turnhamgreen, Brentwood, Bagshot, were passed—need not be... ...e, and selected for a sec- ond wife Miss Rose Dawson, daughter of Mr. John Thomas Dawson, ironmonger, of Mudbury. What a happy woman was Rose to be my... ...ts. In addition to these Miss Tuffin, who is daughter of the late Reverend Thomas Tuffin (Fellow of Cor- pus College, Cambridge), can instruct in the ... ...h the eminent men ordered. Captain Crawley of the Life Guards rode up from Knightsbridge Barracks the next day; his black charger pawed the straw befo... ...immediately on his return to his inn the most hospitable of invitations to Thomas Chopper, Esquire, begging that gentleman to dine with him at the Sla... ... sir,” says Bowls, advancing with a pro- found bow; “what otel, sir, shall Thomas fetch the luggage from?” “O, dam,” said young James, starting up, as... ...er Bedford Place; old Sergeant Toffy and Mrs. Toffy; and sometimes old Sir Thomas Coffin and Lady Coffin, from Bedford Square. Sir Thomas was celebrat...

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Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

...oking on him with affec- tionate sadness. ‘Ah! It seems but yesterday that Thomas was a boy fresh from a scholastic course. Yet years have passed, I t... ... boy fresh from a scholastic course. Yet years have passed, I think, since Thomas Pinch and I first walked the world together!’ Mr Pinch could say not... ...much moved. But he pressed his master’s hand, and tried to thank him. ‘And Thomas Pinch and I,’ said Mr Pecksniff, in a deeper voice, ‘will walk it ye... ...Mr Pinch, only too happy to be useful, went off directly. ‘You will excuse Thomas Pinch’s want of polish, Martin,’ said Mr Pecksniff, with a smile of ... ...ell.’ ‘He is a very good fellow, sir.’ ‘Oh, yes,’ said Mr Pecksniff. ‘Yes. Thomas Pinch means well. He is very grateful. I have never regretted having... ... they knew all the great dukes, lords, viscounts, mar- quesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, quite affectionately, and were beyond everything int... ... acquainted with the great dukes, lords, viscounts, marquesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, in whom the people of those benighted countries had ... ...he Halls; or mutter in a lower tone yet darker legends of the cross-legged knights, whose marble effigies were in the church. With the first planting ... ...hand held out to Mr Tapley himself, which he kissed with the devotion of a knight-errant; more farewells, more something else’s; a parting word from M...

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Poems, In Two Volumes Volume Ii.

By: William Wordsworth

...itor to her sacred name! 42 SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET SONNET TO THOMAS CLARKSON, On the final passing of the Bill for the Abolition of the ... ...y Tower! Silent, deserted of her best, Without an Inmate or a Guest, Knight, Squire, or Yeoman, Page, or Groom; 40 We have the... ...d Pendragon, were demolished, and the tim ber and other materials sold by Thomas Earl of Thanet. We will hope that, when this order was issued, the E...

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Billy Budd

By: Herman Melville

...ion into The Rights. The hard-headed Dundee owner was a staunch admirer of Thomas Paine whose book in rejoinder to Burke’s arraign- ment of the French... ...m, a clumsy con- trivance, was, as is well known, scouted by no few of the knights as a base implement, good enough peradventure for weavers too crave... ...raven to stand up crossing steel with steel in frank fight. But as ashore, knightly valor, tho’ shorn of its blazonry, did not cease with the knights,...

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The Old Curiosity Shop

By: Charles Dickens

...g by a line from the ceiling, it was to be forthwith exhibited. And now Mr Thomas Codlin, the misanthrope, after blowing away at the Pan’s pipes until... ..., as the reader pleases, re turned unto the remonstrance of his friend Mr Thomas Codlin a jocose answer calculated to turn aside his dis content; an... ...l der blade. Nell and her grandfather walked next him on either hand, and Thomas Codlin brought up the rear. When they came to any town or village, o... ...he same.’ ‘Where’s your partner?’ inquired Grinder. ‘Here he is,’ cried Mr Thomas Codlin, presenting his head and face in the proscenium of the stage,... ...be furder away—furder away. Have you seen that?’ ‘Ah! what then?’ muttered Thomas Codlin. ‘This, then,’ said Short. ‘He has given his friends the slip... ...ed with their swords, and cased in armour as they had lived. Some of these knights had their own weapons, helmets, coats of mail, hanging upon the wal...

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