Subject for March, 2020

CHAPTER XII

Subject: Ivanhoe

The heralds left their pricking up and down,      Now ringen trumpets loud and clarion.      There is no more to say, but east and west,      In go the speares sadly in the res...

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CHAPTER XI

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   1st Outlaw: Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about you;      If not, we’ll make you sit, and rifle you.      Speed: Sir, we are undone! these are the villains    ...

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CHAPTER X

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Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls      The sick man’s passport in her hollow beak,      And in the shadow of the silent night      Doth shake contagion from h...

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CHAPTER IX

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——In the midst was seen A lady of a more majestic mien, By stature and by beauty mark’d their sovereign Queen.   And as in beauty she surpass’d the choir, So n...

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CHAPTER VIII

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At this the challenger with fierce defy      His trumpet sounds; the challenged makes reply:      With clangour rings the field, resounds the vaulted sky.      Their visors clo...

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CHAPTER VII-2

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Emboldened by these considerations, the Jew pursued his point, and jostled the Norman Christian, without respect either to his descent, quality, or religion. The complaints of t...

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CHAPTER VII-1

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Knights, with a long retinue of their squires,      In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires;      One laced the helm, another held the lance, A third the shining buckler did ...

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CHAPTER VI-2

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Gurth, whose occupation, though now held so mean, gave him as much consequence in Saxon England as that of Eumaeus in Ithaca, was offended at the familiar and commanding tone as...

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CHAPTER VI-1

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To buy his favour I extend this friendship:      If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;      And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.      —Merchant of Venice As the Palmer, l...

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CHAPTER V-2

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“I say,” repeated the Pilgrim in a firm and strong voice, “that the English chivalry were second to NONE who ever drew sword in defence of the Holy Land. I say besides, for I s...

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