This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...she have dreamed her locks and face Will feel the touch of those weird lotions hid By Merlin through so many a century? I dare be sworn the girl hath some pet scheme To win these flasks of the great seer by trick Of flattery, or mock love's insidious guile. Ah, doubly foiled, if such indeed her aim, Since one as well ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt: ...she have dreamed her locks and face Will feel the touch of those weird lotions hid By Merlin through so many a century? I dare be sworn the girl hath some pet scheme To win these flasks of the great seer by trick Of flattery, or mock love's insidious guile. Ah, doubly foiled, if such indeed her aim, Since one as well might hope that yonder towers Would push from battlement or barbacan A growth of living leaves, as Merlin thrill To blandishments her smiles could whelm him with. Age hath made pale the ruby in his blood, As virtue long hath tamed the ripple in mine. (king Arthur all his knights, ladies, etc., appear from the castle, the populace also following. Lastly enters Merlin, clad in priestly robes, holding aloft the magic sword, xcalidur.) King Arthur. Now for the rites that will simply and totally Mighty Excalibur's praises attest, Ere he is once again put sacerdotally Down underground in his magical chest. Never was blade that excelled by comparison This one in temper or finish at all, Fit to extinguish the Turk or the Saracen, Fit to eradicate Roman or Gaul. Nothing could vex curiosity crueller Than to determine the source of his craft.. Who was the antediluvian jeweller Able to shape that magnificent haft? Yet should my fancy endeavor to speculate How such a marvellous weapon was made, I should be tempted by falsehood to peculate, Since, like myself, he's a fabulous blade! Still, when we gaze on his exquisite mystery--Steel, silver, jewels and gold interblent--Something we guess of his actual history From the appearance we see him present. Much of him seems to conclusively indicate That he resulted from some sort of queer Silversmith-blacksmith-and jeweller syndicate, Gone out of partnership many a year! If he could speak, what a record of vi...
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Add this copy of The New King Arthur An Opera Without Music to cart. $41.51, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of The New King Arthur An Opera Without Music to cart. $41.51, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2004 by Kessinger Publishing.
