Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER XXII
Subject: Ivanhoe
My daughter—O my ducats—O my daughter! ———O my Christian ducats! Justice—the Law—my ducats, and my daughter! —Merchant of Venice Leaving the Saxon chiefs to retur...
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CHAPTER XXI
Subject: Ivanhoe
Alas, how many hours and years have past, Since human forms have round this table sate, Or lamp, or taper, on its surface gleam’d! Methinks, I hear the sou...
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CHAPTER XX
Subject: Ivanhoe
When autumn nights were long and drear, And forest walks were dark and dim, How sweetly on the pilgrim’s ear Was wont to steal the hermit’s hymn ...
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CHAPTER XIX
Subject: Ivanhoe
A train of armed men, some noble dame Escorting, (so their scatter’d words discover’d, As unperceived I hung upon their rear,) Are close at hand,...
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CHAPTER XVIII
Subject: Ivanhoe
Away! our journey lies through dell and dingle, Where the blithe fawn trips by its timid mother, Where the broad oak, with intercepting boughs, Chequers the sunbe...
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CHAPTER XVII
Subject: Ivanhoe
At eve, within yon studious nook, I ope my brass-embossed book, Portray’d with many a holy deed Of martyrs crown’d with heavenly meed; Then, as m...
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CHAPTER XVI
Subject: Ivanhoe
Far in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the c...
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CHAPTER XV
Subject: Ivanhoe
And yet he thinks,—ha, ha, ha, ha,—he thinks I am the tool and servant of his will. Well, let it be; through all the maze of trouble His plots and base oppre...
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CHAPTER XIV
Subject: Ivanhoe
In rough magnificence array’d, When ancient Chivalry display’d The pomp of her heroic games, And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled, a...
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CHAPTER XIII
Subject: Ivanhoe
“Heroes, approach!” Atrides thus aloud, “Stand forth distinguish’d from the circling crowd, Ye who by skill or manly force may claim, Your rivals to su...
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