Works, Band 22Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achilles Tatius Agelastes Alexius Comnenus Anglo-Dane Anglo-Saxon Anna Comnena answered appearance arms attend barbarian battle beautiful Begum Bertha Blacquernal Bohemond Brenhilda Broken Lances Cæsar called combat command companion Constantinople Count of Paris Count Robert Countess crusaders danger daughter death desire doctor door Douban dungeon duty Emperor empire Empress enemy eyes faithful father favour fear Frank Godfrey Godfrey of Bouillon Grecian Greek Greek fire guard hand Hartley hath heard heart Heaven Hereward honour husband imperial knight lady look manner means Menie Gray Monçada nature never Nicephorus Briennius noble occasion officer palace passed Patriarch perhaps person poor possessed present prince Princess rank replied Richard Middlemas Robert of Paris sacred seemed slave soldier speak stranger supposed Tancred tell thee thou art thou hast thought tion Tippoo tone Ursel Varangian Varangian Guard voice wife Witherington woman words young Zosimus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xiv - 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.
Seite 16 - ... the Emperor, the Greek sovereigns had been, for a great many years, in the custom of maintaining in their pay, as near their person as they could, the steady services of a select number of mercenaries in the capacity of body-guards, 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...
Seite 112 - Not only the bold Demetrius and his pupil Lascaris, but all the crowd whom they influenced, fled manfully when the commodore of the Greeks fired the first discharge ; and as the other vessels in the squadron followed his example, the heavens were filled with the unusual and outrageous noise, while the smoke was so thick as to darken the very air.
Seite 130 - 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.
Seite 16 - 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.'