Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER XXX
Subject: Ivanhoe
Approach the chamber, look upon his bed. His is the passing of no peaceful ghost, Which, as the lark arises to the sky, ‘Mid morning’s sweetest breeze...
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CHAPTER XXIX
Subject: Ivanhoe
Ascend the watch-tower yonder, valiant soldier, Look on the field, and say how goes the battle. —Schiller’s Maid of Orleans A moment of peril is often also ...
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CHAPTER XXVIII-2
Subject: Ivanhoe
But the gentleness and candour of Rebecca’s nature imputed no fault to Ivanhoe for sharing in the universal prejudices of his age and religion. On the contrary the fair Je...
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CHAPTER XXVIII-1
Subject: Ivanhoe
This wandering race, sever’d from other men, Boast yet their intercourse with human arts; The seas, the woods, the deserts, which they haunt, Find them acqu...
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CHAPTER XXVII-2
Subject: Ivanhoe
“I am indeed bound to vengeance,” murmured Cedric; “Saint Withold knows my heart.” Front-de-Boeuf, in the meanwhile, led the way to a postern, where, passing the moat on a singl...
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CHAPTER XXVII-1
Subject: Ivanhoe
Fond wretch! and what canst thou relate, But deeds of sorrow, shame, and sin? Thy deeds are proved—thou know’st thy fate; But come, thy tale—begin—begin. &...
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CHAPTER XXVI
Subject: Ivanhoe
The hottest horse will oft be cool, The dullest will show fire; The friar will often play the fool, The fool will play the friar. —Old Song When the Jes...
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CHAPTER XXV
Subject: Ivanhoe
A damn’d cramp piece of penmanship as ever I saw in my life! —She Stoops to Conquer When the Templar reached the hall of the castle, he found De Bracy already there. “Your...
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CHAPTER XXIV
Subject: Ivanhoe
I’ll woo her as the lion woos his bride. —Douglas While the scenes we have described were passing in other parts of the castle, the Jewess Rebecca awaited her fate...
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CHAPTER XXIII
Subject: Ivanhoe
Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words Can no way change you to a milder form, I’ll woo you, like a soldier, at arms’ end, And love you ‘...
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