Subject for March, 2020
NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXIII
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note I.—Hedge-Priests. It is curious to observe, that in every state of society, some sort of ghostly consolation is provided for the members of the community, though assembled ...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXII
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note H.—Richard Coeur-de-Lion. The interchange of a cuff with the jolly priest is not entirely out of character with Richard I., if romances read him aright. In the very curious...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XXXI
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note G.—Ulrica’s Death song. It will readily occur to the antiquary, that these verses are intended to imitate the antique poetry of the Scalds—the minstrels of the old Sc...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XXIX
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note F.—Heraldry The author has been here upbraided with false heraldry, as having charged metal upon metal. It should be remembered, however, that heraldry had only its first r...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XXII.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note E.—The range of iron bars above that glowing charcoal. This horrid species of torture may remind the reader of that to which the Spaniards subjected Guatimozin, in order to...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XXI.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note D.—Battle of Stamford. A great topographical blunder occurred here in former editions. The bloody battle alluded to in the text, fought and won by King Harold, over his bro...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XVII.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note C.—Minstrelsy. The realm of France, it is well known, was divided betwixt the Norman and Teutonic race, who spoke the language in which the word Yes is pronounced as “oui”,...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER II.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note B.—Negro Slaves. The severe accuracy of some critics has objected to the complexion of the slaves of Brian de Bois-Guilbert, as being totally out of costume and propriety. ...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER I.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note A.—The Ranger or the Forest, that cuts the foreclaws off our dogs. A most sensible grievance of those aggrieved times were the Forest Laws. These oppressive enactments were...
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CHAPTER XLIV
Subject: Ivanhoe
So! now ’tis ended, like an old wife’s story. Webster When the first moments of surprise were over, Wilfred of Ivanhoe demanded of the Grand Master, as judge...
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