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...and drank, elbow upward, the green-eyed wine of old romance, there lived, a bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a prosperous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was sometimes ennobled, Gottlieb von Groschen; than whom no wealthier merchant bartered for the glory of his ancient mothercity, nor more honoured burgess ...

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... bow-shot from the bones of the Eleven Thousand Virgins and the Three Holy Kings, a pros- perous Rhinelander, by name Gottlieb Groschen, or, as it was... ...d say such words!—than—I can’t repeat them!—don’t ask me!—She’s becoming a Frankish girl!’ ‘What ballad’s that?’ said Gottlieb, smiling. ‘The Ballad o... ..., and a fine account I must give of myself to my hostess of the Three Holy Kings!’ Farina recovered the destructive little instrument. ‘I am ready,’ s... ...ively quickened her steps. When she stood under the sign of the Three Holy Kings, where dwelt Farina’s mother, she put up a fervent prayer of thanks, ... ... pack-horse beside him, shortly afterward left the hotel of the Three Holy Kings, and trotted up to Gottlieb’s door. ‘T ent-pitching is now my trade,’...

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... around the fires at night and sung to the harp in the banqueting halls of kings and nobles, each people and each generation telling it in its own fas... ...unther, and so we read of the fall of the Nibelungs, a name that is wholly Frankish in character. This identification led also to Attila’s being consi... ...ures to round out the story. As Kriemhild was the sister of the Burgundian kings, it was but natural to explain her killing of Attila, as described in... ... this maid of noble birth would have adorned many another woman too. Three kings, noble and puissant, did nurture her, Gunther (4) and Gernot, (5) war... ...n of valor that he was, who won thereto in youth worship full great. These kings, as I have said, were of high prowess. To them owed allegiance the be... ...e lords Sindolt and Hunolt, liegemen of these three 30 The Nibelungenlied kings, had rule of the court and of its honors. Thereto had they many a war... ...ion of the muse of poetry. (3) “Kriemhild” is the Upper German form of the Frankish “Grimhild”. In the MSS., the name generally appears with a further...

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... and the eye- brows with a black pigment. It is mentioned or alluded to, 2 Kings, ix. 30, Jerem. iv. 30, Ezek. xxiii. 40; to which may be added, Isaia... ...mode of idolatry had at various periods infected Palestine. According to 2 Kings, xviii. 4, at the accession of King Hezekiah, the Israelites had rais... ...a- sions of ceremony, as splendid weddings, presentations at the courts of kings, sumptuous entertainments, &c.; and all persons who stood in close co... ...ion the most benign; and desolation with a view to permanent security. The Frankish Emperor was thus invited to indulge in this most captivating of lu... ... of civic and patriotic ardor. In the very plenitude of their rage against kings, the French Republic were threatened with attack, and with the desola... ...ter part of Christendom. Far otherwise was the conduct of Charlemagne. The Frankish government, though we are not circumstantially acquainted with its... .... Charlemagne as a conqueror, and by far the greatest illustra- tor of the Frankish name, might easily have conciliated their gratitude and admiration... ... the conspiracy formed against him, upon the provoca- tions offered to the Frankish nobility by his third wife, he showed the same spirit of excessive... ...sufficient evidence—were there no other—that all the vast resources of the Frankish throne, wielded by imbecile minds, were inadequate to maintain tha...

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...e corsair, and needed little management. The old Turk seemed to regard the Frankish women like so many basilisks, and avoided turning a glance in thei... ...tish ships, which exercised a salutary supervision over these Southern sea-kings. The last Dey, Baba Hali, had been a wise and prudent man, anxious to... ...e. The Moors, who had swum ashore, had probably told them that she was the Frankish Bey’s daughter; for this, miserable place though it was, appeared ... ...or the daugh- ters of a Hadji was good enough for the unclean child of the Frankish infidels. The hay might perhaps have spared a little stiffness, bu... ...t of her compan- ions, though it would not have been safe to put them into Frankish garments, and none had been brought. Poor Hebert was the very ghos... ...d silence even on the fanatic. He spoke again, making them understand that Frankish vengeance in case of a massacre could reach them even in their mou...

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...e feat of Horatius Cocles. It was in the year B.C. 507, not long after the kings had been expelled from Rome, when they were endeavoring to return by ... ...ions. The leader of them was Leonidas, who had newly become one of the two kings of Sparta, the city that above all in Greece trained its sons to be h... ...he Temple of Delphi that Sparta should be saved by the death of one of her kings of the race of Hercules. He was allowed by law to take with him 300 m... ...e who were elected ev- ery year; especially the two consuls, who were like kings all but the crown, wore purple togas richly embroidered, sat on ivory... ...s. Surely these Gauls deemed themselves in the presence of that council of kings who were sometimes supposed to govern Rome, nay, if they were not bef... ... alone in a little boat, and guiding it down the stream, landed beyond the Frankish camp, and repairing to the different Gallic cities, she implored t... ...t from among the Gaulish nobles, a much more convenient arrangement to the Frankish kings, who cared for the life of a ‘Roman’ infinitely less than ev... ...odrik to the south, and of Hildebert to the northward, and quartered among Frankish chiefs, with whom at first they had nothing more to endure than th...

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... more propriety it may be asserted, that after the Roman Cæsars all modern kings, kesars, or emperors, are mere phantoms of royalty. The Cæsar of West... ...ently relied on in a serious trial of strength between the two powers. The kings of Parthia, therefore, were far enough from being regarded in the lig... ...tice of that Oriental Cham, who daily proclaims by sound of trumpet to the kings in the four cor- ners of the earth—that they , having dutifully await... ...is foot upon the neck of the invincible republic which had humbled all the kings of the earth, and founded an empire which was to 25 Thomas de Quince... ...ursued the same schemes. Every where he had a body of mercenary partisans; kings are known to have taken his pay. And it is remarkable that even in hi... ...raised the first ominous prece- dent in favor of those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud of years. Homes had b...

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...as it for me that I failed to slay thee, with the safeguard of the king of kings upon thy person. Certain it were, that the cord or the sabre had just... ... he reigns.” “How mean you? “ said the Eastern soldier; “have you then two kings in one poor island?” “As thou sayest,” said the Scot, for such was Si... ... whose manners were so saintly? “My password,” he said at length, “is this—Kings begged of a beggar.” “It is right,” said the hermit, while he paused.... ...nes of England’s sovereign, I was dispatched by the General Council of the kings, princes, and supreme lead- ers of the army of the Blessed Cross, and... ...a! sayest thou?” said the proud Baron de Vaux. “But know, messenger of the kings and princes as thou mayest be, no leech shall approach the sick-bed o... ...d give large provinces to maintain at his behest a body of well- appointed Frankish lances. In Egypt, in Persia, a hundred such auxiliaries, joined to... ...ce in the blood of Richard, permit the English maid the freedom which your Frankish 171 Sir Walter Scott manners have assigned to women. He will allo...

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......................................................... 192 Chapter 2.5.V . Kings and Emigrants. ......................................................... ...sperate valour has suffocated the deliberate, and Paul Jones too is of the Kings of the Sea! The Euxine, the Meotian waters felt thee next, and long- ... ...entous in the background, much nearer is this fact of these Twelve Hundred Kings, who sit in the Salle de Manege. Kings un- controllable by him, not y... ...le Member stops short; the Assembly starts to its feet; the Twelve Hundred Kings ‘almost all,’ and the Galleries no less, do welcome the Restorer of F... ...sm was Mankind’s palladium; for whom, with the abolition of Most-Christian Kingship and Most-Talleyrand Bishopship, all loyal obedience, all religious... ... that wars and gars. And so the People, as we say, is now called French or Frankish: never- theless, does not the old Gaulish and Gaelic Celthood, wit...

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...at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, like Francis I., sometimes turned and de... ... palace in those sandy plains will ever remain an unanswered question, for kings have never been obliged to give reasons. In addition to the fact that... ...titor of Stephen, and became father of Henry II., first of the Plantagenet kings, born, as we have seen, at Le Mans. The facts create a natural presum... ...and- book of M. Joanne that it has been visited by almost every one of the kings of France, from Louis XI. down- ward; and also that it has served as ... ...ns which appear to have been formed hastily, probably at the moment of the Frankish invasion. The authors of these solid defences, though occasionally... ...s, when its lords entitled themselves counts of Cephalonia and Neophantis, kings of Arles and Vienne, princes of Achaia, and emperors of Constantinopl...

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...ed by her young, approach the water. He watched her, judging that she would seek a ford, and he was right. She waded over, and the army followed. So a... ...they hardly ever encore a song; that though they may be dying to hear it again, their good breeding usually preserves them against requiring the repet... ... with him; she is charitable toward his failings, and she finds in him high virtues which are not usually consid- ered to be virtues when they are lod...

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...Excerpt: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Since erst he lay friendless...

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...ELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE Lo, praise of the prowess of people kings of spear armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what ho... ...a saddle all shining and set in jewels; ’twas the battle seat of the best of kings, when to play of swords the son of Healfdene was fain to fare. Ne’e... ...acres, though “the size of the acre varied.” 3 On the historical raid into Frankish territory between 512 and 520 A.D. The subsequent course of eve... ...lmet, the bravest and best that broke the rings, in Swedish land, of the sea kings’ line, haughty hero. 3 Hence Heardred’s end. For shelter he gave t... ...tland, for their hero’s passing his hearth companions: quoth that of all the kings of earth, of men he was mildest and most beloved, to his kin the ki...

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......................................................... 307 Chapter 2.5.V . Kings and Emigrants. ......................................................... ...h more lies sick than poor Louis: not the French King only, but the French Kingship; this too, after long rough tear and wear, is breaking down. The w... ... Time only; is a ‘Time-phantasm, yet reckons itself real!’ The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the streets of Paris, ... ... the rest, consider only these two: his Church, or spiritual Guidance; his Kingship, or temporal one. The Church: what a word was there; richer than G... ...rtile Existence (named of Good and Evil),—brought it, in the matter of the Kingship. Wondrous! Concerning which may we not again say, that in the huge... ... the People, as we say, is now called French or 244 The French Revolution Frankish: nevertheless, does not the old Gaulish and Gaelic Celthood, with ...

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... to in dustry and order, and gave them a national life. But neither their kings nor their priests ever obtained, as in those other countries, the exc... ...cter, the Prophets were a power in the nation, often more than a match for kings and priests, and kept up, in that little corner of the earth, the ant... ...munity like those of ancient Greece; where, accordingly, the government of kings, under some real, but no ostensible or constitutional control by publ... ... been, and many of them still are, pro duced by the sinister interests of kings and aristocracies, where their power is sufficient to raise them abov... ...d almost exclusively by a Gallo Ro man population, while in the other the Frankish, Burgundian, and other T eutonic races form a considerable ingredi...

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... and pursued a conversation. He was a stately cava- lier of the Gallicized Frankish outlines, ready, but grave in his bearing, grave in his delivery, ... ...rm appear as no better than a thing to enrich a beggar, while he knew that kings could never command the charm. Not love, only the bathing in Henriett...