Waverley Novels, Volume 46R. Cadell, 1833 |
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Achilles Tatius Agelastes Alexius Comnenus Anglo-Dane Anglo-Saxon Anna Comnena answered the Varangian armour arms army barbarian battle battle-axe beautiful Bohemond brave Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called command companion comrades Constantinople Count of Paris Count of Vermandois Count Robert Countess courage court crusaders danger daughter death desire Diogenes dungeon duty Emperor empire enemy expressed eyes fair faith father fear Follower Frank gallant gian Godfrey of Bouillon Grecian Greek guard hand hath head hear heard Heaven Hereward honour husband infidels JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM knight lady Lances Laodicea leader look manner means methinks nature never Nicephorus Briennius noble Normans occasion officer palace pass permit person philosopher present prince rank replied Robert of Paris Roman sacred seemed slave soldier speak stranger thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought throne tion tone valiant valour Varan Varangian Guard voice wife words XLVI Zosimus
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Página x - ... hero. We cannot, however, refuse her judicious and important remark, that the disorders of the times were the misfortune and the glory of Alexius ; and that every calamity which can afflict a declining empire was accumulated on his reign by the justice of Heaven and the vices of his predecessors. In the east, the victorious Turks had spread, from Persia to the Hellespont, the reign of the Koran and the Crescent; the west was invaded by the adventurous valour of the Normans ; and, in the moments...
Página 21 - ... which were numerous enough, when their steady discipline and inflexible loyalty were taken in conjunction with their personal strength and indomitable courage, to defeat, not only any traitorous attempt on the imperial person, but to quell open rebellions, unless such were supported by a great proportion of the military force. Their pay was therefore liberal; their rank and established character for prowess gave them a degree of consideration among the people, whose reputation for valour had...
Página 152 - Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win The fairest of her sex, Angelica His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim, and the peers of Charlemain.
Página 20 - Piracy," says Gibbon, with his usual spirit, " was the exercise, the trade, the glory, and the virtue of the Scandinavian youth. Impatient of a bleak climate and narrow limits, they started from the banquet, grasped their arms, sounded their horn, ascended their ships, and explored every coast that promised either spoil or settlement."* The...
Página xii - The increase of the male and female branches of his family adorned the throne, and secured the succession ; but their princely luxury and pride offended the patricians, exhausted the revenue, and insulted the misery of the people. Anna is a faithful witness that his happiness was destroyed and his health broken by the cares of a public life ; the patience of Constantinople was fatigued by the length and severity of his reign ; and before Alexius expired, he had lost the love and reverence of his...
Página xii - ... confidence. In his last hours, when he was pressed by his wife Irene to alter the succession, he raised his head, and breathed a pious ejaculation on the vanity of the world. The indignant reply of the Empress may be inscribed as an epitaph on his tomb,—' You die, as you have lived—a hypocrite.
Página 3 - This last passage is worked up in the tragedy itself, as follows: LEONTIUS. —That power that kindly spreads The clouds, a signal of impending showers, To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade, Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece, And not one prodigy foretold our fate. DEMETRIUS. A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it; A feeble government, eluded laws, A factious populace, luxurious nobles, And all the maladies of sinking states.