Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-10-19
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simplicity OF style, it is almost scrir,turoI
Eho interest of the story increases rreatI, &c
you read II Is The very romance of histoy 49,
From tins source, the moost copious and ab,n
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noFelSiS and dramatists drawn their suprlies.
The original Of many of many ,bivaIrc,s.
ana nan! !" tender scene in Scotland James
and Their conten Pora1ies, will be re cbpbisfd
III lhe vlFId pages Of old Froissart'
IN me age OF FroissaTt,' says his biopra.
PHel, All t!ie world was persuaded that ICrs
"'s 'iIe h'olNe OF The most brilliant actions Of
courage and virtue. knights made parade-
OF 1t IN tournaments. Warriors exDosed tLem-
serves 10 The most perilous combats TO main.
tam me honor and beauty of their ladies. If
was then believed that love MIGHT he conens
ed to delicate intercourse Of oalIaptr,, 81
tenderness; it is almost ALWAYS under tb;s
form 'hat we see it represented in thegrea
er part OF those efforts Of the mind which
ny pGGh handed down TO us from that peri.
% ne iadleS blushed not in feeling so
pure passion and TIE most modest n,oJa l.
the ordinary subject Of their coryersot;cns
The Chronicles extend ION 1886 to I1oo
i hey comprehend every considerable sR:ir
y, iilGh happened during that period in Fl anca
r.H6 l'no, scotland, Ireland and FIande RS =
= hey include also a vast number of DaIticii-
i"IS relaliYe to the affairs Of Rome and Av;dr.
non: OF SPain' Germany, Italy; even of Rus
s."' hungary, Turkey, Afica-in short, of al
most the whole known world.
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indebted as is the disciple 10 his master
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