... 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... ...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... ... the capital of the Burgundian kingdom, but was destroyed by the Huns. The Merovingians rebuilt it, and in the seventh century it be- came a bishopric...

...rse, he may have to blame himself for the attempt. And perhaps, if all the kings in Europe were to confine themselves to innocent amusement, the subje... ...rieved for the bearer of so futile and melan- choly an existence. The last Merovingians may have looked not otherwise. The Princess Amalia Seraphina, ... ...r our- selves; and the republic will be all the stronger to resist, if the kings of Europe should band themselves together to reduce it.’ I know not w...

... 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... ... 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... ...th attack, and with the desolation of their capital by a banded crusade of kings; and they rose in frenzy to meet the aggressors. The Allied Powers ha... ...e energy of the aspiring mayors of the palace, or great lieutenants of the Merovingian kings. But agreeing in this—that they were indebted to others f...

...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 ... ... Radegonde,—a lady who found means to be a saint even in the capacity of a Merovingian queen. It bears a general resemblance to Notre Dame la Grande, ... ...s, when its lords entitled themselves counts of Cephalonia and Neophantis, kings of Arles and Vienne, princes of Achaia, and emperors of Constantinopl...

...ten. The best talkers usually address themselves to some particular society; there they are kings, elsewhere camp-fol- lowers, as a man may know Russi... ... old associations. These woods have rung 99 Robert Louis Stevenson to the horns of all the kings of France, from Philip Augustus downwards. They have... .... So much you apprehend by an athletic act of the imagination. A faint far-off rumour as of Merovingian wars; a legend as of some dead religion. 117 ...

...on, or modern policy, more scornful or more shamefaced than the queens and kings of past ages, no longer 21 Balzac dare look boldly in the face of th... ... there. This privi- lege of being everywhere at home is the prerogative of kings, courtesans, and thieves. “When you feel quite well,” this strange pr... ...you free.—To love a prostitute of the lowest class when you have not, like kings, the power to give her high rank, is a monstrous blunder.” “And am I ... ...“Am I selfish? That is the way to love! Men show such devotion to none but kings! But I have anointed Lucien king. If I were riveted for the rest of m... ...e Philip II. type in all this; but I have pitfalls for everybody, even for kings.” Five days after the nabob’s disappearance, Madame du Val- Noble was... ...yor would say, the perimeter of the Palace, as it was from the time of the Merovingians till the accession of the first race of V alois; but to us, as...

...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 break- ing down. The... ...antasm, yet reckons itself real!’ 12 The French Revolution: V ol. One The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock- carts through the stree... ...reckons itself real!’ 12 The French Revolution: V ol. One 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. Won- drous! Concerning which may we not again say, that in the hu... ...ging that way, had our poor Louis been born. Grant also that if the French Kingship had not, by course of Nature, long to live, he of all men was the ...

......................................................... 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... ...and is for a Time only; is a ‘Time-phantasm, yet reckons itself real!’ The Merovingian Kings, slowly wending on their bullock-carts through the street... ... 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...

... gold and bars of silver are at present. The revenues of the ancient Saxon kings of England are said to have been paid, not in money, but in kind, tha... ...form as that between the penny and the pound. During the first race of the kings of France, the French sou or shilling appears upon different occasion... ...tracting 84 The Wealth of Nations parties. The courts of justice of their kings seldom intermeddled in it. The high rate of interest which took place... ..., had been made in the times of his progenitors, some 153 Adam Smith time kings of England. It is probably, therefore, as old at least as the time of... ...inhabitants. It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,... ...of Charles XII., are said to have been very great. The French kings of the Merovingian race had all treasures. When they divided their king- dom among...