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...proudly in the midst, and beside it the royal Lions and Castles of the two Spanish monarchies. To the south, the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees began to ... ...nstant combat, though knowing how little dependence could be placed on his Spanish allies. The challenge of the Prince of Wales was therefore accepted... ...ot speedily, there will be foul slaughter made among the prisoners by your Spanish butcher—King I would say.” “I come, I come, Chandos,” answered Edwa... ...gh which they passed, the men called loudly for liquor; but the hot, fiery Spanish wine was, as Eustace had already been cautioned by Father W aleran,... ...and bewailing, till my senses left me; and I should have died, but for two Benedictines journeying for the service of their Convent. The good brethren... ...ddressing Eustace with what he took for a spell, though, had he understood Spanish he would have found it a fine flowing compliment. Leonard shrank cl...

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... was cured through the king’s intercession. There was Philip Pitet, of the Benedictines, who had a suffocating cough, which wellnigh killed him, but h... ..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had 37 Thackeray beheld in imaginatio... ...on, the Marquis of Villadarias fired off another, which those who knew the Spanish thought rather the best of the two; and of this number was Harry Es... ...am sure he has a hundred things to tell us. And I’m jealous already of the Spanish ladies. Was that a beautiful nun at Cadiz that you rescued from the... ...al Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of one of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southam... ...round, having a force supe- rior to the English, and besides the excellent Spanish and Ba- varian troops, the whole Maison-du-Roy with him, the most s...

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...nd poorest gentle- men of France: he was well-made, but very swarthy, with Spanish features, had a charming voice, played the guitar and lute very wel... ...leasantry, thought it would be a good joke to empty his snuff-box, full of Spanish snuff, into a large glass of wine, and to make Santeuil drink it, i... ...ught about a reconciliation be- 155 Saint-Simon tween the two powers. The Spanish ambassador returned to London. The Emperor next endeavoured to stre... ...ffairs of government. Their wish was to prevent the dis- memberment of the Spanish kingdom by conferring the whole succession upon the son of the only... ..., upon her marriage with our King, had solemnly renounced all claim to the Spanish throne, and these renun- ciations had been repeated at the Peace of... ...he Saturday, at seven o’clock in the evening, in the church of the English Benedictines at Paris, Rue St. Jacques, without pomp, and attended by but f... ...er of their monasteries and their riches, are in Spain much about what the Benedictines are in France, and like them are a congregation. They elect al... ...are in France, and like them are a congregation. They elect also, like the Benedictines, their superiors, local and general, ex- cept the Prior of the...

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...ring the Cross was carved over the ample chimney, and the hangings were of Spanish leather, with all the wondrous history of Santiago’s relics, includ... ...trict con- vents. The Mother, Margaret Stafford, was a great lady, and the Benedictines of the old foundation of St. Helen’s in the midst of the capit... ...sters.’ ‘They do a holy work,’ observed Lady Lilias. ‘None ever blamed the Benedictines for lack of alms-deeds,’ returned the Prioress haughtily, scar... ...cape, as he came slowly into the cloistered court on his large sober-paced Spanish mule; a knight and the chaplain of the convent assisted him from it...

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...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ...Pearls And yet he could not but shudder as he spoke. When they had asked a Spanish prisoner how many there had been in the army, ‘Count the dead,’ he ... ...nswered. Nor could my husband abstain from tears as he told me how the old Spanish guards were all lying as they stood, slain all together, with their... ...y well at home.’ ‘Or here before I married,’ added Queen Henrietta. ‘Since Spanish etiquette has come in, we have all been on our good behaviour.’ ‘Ha... ...und, and were really only in the Faubourg St. Medand, in the Priory of the Benedictines, giv- ing title and revenue to the Abbe St. Leu, which had con...

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...as Comte de Poitou. The history of Aquitaine, which was not written by the Benedictines, will probably never be written, because there are no longer B... ...being able to hold it. Max, taken prisoner by the English, was sent to the Spanish hulks at the island of Cabrera, the most horrible of all stations f... ... a chapel altar, holding his head between his hands. After half an hour of Spanish re- flections, he spied the squirrel, which Goddet could not re- fr...

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...laced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid or der called the Benedictines. He made himself Archbishop of Canterbury, for his greater glo... ...then in his fifteenth year, was married to Catherine, the daughter of the Spanish monarch, with great rejoicings and bright prospects; but in a very ... ...had recovered from his grief, he thought it a pity that the fortune of the Spanish Princess, amounting to two hundred thousand crowns, should go out o... ...an, being, on the contrary, proud, overbearing, and gloomy; but he and the Spanish lords who came over with him, assuredly did discountenance the idea... ...e holiday making among the people; but they had their old distrust of this Spanish marriage, in which even the Parliament shared. Though the members o... ...were far from honest, and were strongly suspected to have been bought with Spanish money, they would pass no bill to enable the Queen to set aside the...

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...ir tasting the good sherris sack that had been sent with his last cargo of Spanish leather. ‘I would I could send a flask to our good Prioress,’ he sa... ...mes of St. Helen’s, who would be only too glad to have a story against the Benedictines. A ride over the Kentish downs was the only cure for her or fo...

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...much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light has come ... ...saints surreptitiously smuggled into the Church. Thus the emulators of the Benedictines, the members (too little recognized) of the Academie des Inscr... ...true history of France, the proofs for which had long been gathered by the Benedictines. Louis XVI., a just mind, himself translated the English work ... ... He had the blue eyes and the curved nose of the house of Navarre, and the Spanish cut of the marked features which were in after days the type of the...

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..., the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanish and Provencal as with the rude West-Saxon-English. Edward’s deep ma... ...anor of Castille slowly moved towards the woodland path, with her graceful Spanish step, followed, but at some distance, by two of her women. She turn... ...res were as various as the ap- pearance of the attendants. Here were black Benedictines, there white Augustinians clustered round the sleek mules of t...

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...try,” replied D’Artagnan; “and it is very natural that she should love the Spanish, who are the chil- dren of the same soil as herself. As to the seco... ...obe of white satin, and accompanied by Donna Estafania—the only one of her Spanish women who had not been driven from her by the jealousy of the king ... ... of your toilet? Mark! I see you now. You were seated upon cushions in the Spanish fashion; you wore a robe of green satin embroidered with gold and s... ...Mme. de Sable, Mme. de Montbazon, and Mme. de Guemene. In a corner was the Spanish companion, Donna Estafania, who had followed her from Madrid. Mme. ... ...tate, or to serve the intrigues of a woman who in not French and who has a Spanish heart. Fortunately we have the great cardinal; his vigilant eye wat... ...ng girl, as beautiful as she is today. She was a nun in the convent of the Benedictines of T emplemar. A young priest, with a simple and trustful hear...

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... tint, the velvet skin as of some golden fruit, the arched instep, and the Spanish waist from which the short basque skirt fell crisply. Both mother a... ...a life in the background with its peace- ful toil; these are the wandering Benedictines of our social world, which offers them no other monastery. The... ... horse ran away with you, and I have been to Rouen to see if I could get a Spanish bit which, they tell me, a horse can’t take between his teeth. I en...

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...nch, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue likewise, besides the ancient languages, of which, at least ... ... was cured through the king’s intercession. There was Philip Pitet, of the Benedictines, who had a suffocating cough, which wellnigh killed him, but h... ..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had beheld in imagination in that immo... ...on, the Marquis of Villadarias fired off another, which those who knew the Spanish thought rather the best of the two; and of this number was Harry Es... ...am sure he has a hundred things to tell us. And I’m jealous already of the Spanish ladies. Was that a beautiful nun at Cadiz that you rescued from the... ...al Collares? ’Tis better than your heady port: we got it out of one of the Spanish ships that came from Vigo last year: my mother bought it at Southam...

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...y parsonage house in the country, he chose for his regular reading the old Spanish romance of Felixmarte of Hircania, in folio, which he read quite th... ... with that generous warmth which dictated the lines in his London, against Spanish encroachment. I expressed my opinion of my friend Derrick as but a ... ...emember that the Emperour Charles V, when he read upon the tomb-stone of a Spanish nobleman, “Here lies one who never knew fear,” wittily said, “Then ... ... then became a soldier. And, Sir, I was very kindly treated by the English Benedictines, and have a cell appropriated to me in their convent.’ He obse... ...to observe; his power of contrasting one mode of life with another. As the Spanish prov- erb says, “He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies,... ... 610 Boswell’s Life of Johnson languages, Latin, German, French, Italian, Spanish, English, Arabick, and Armenian, he said, he thought it unnecessary...