Thursday, June 19, 2008

Horace Vernet paintings

Horace Vernet paintings
Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky paintings
Gramercy for the few drops of thy sprinkling,” replied De Bracy; “but this damsel hath wept enough to extinguish a beacon-light. Never was such wringing of hands and such overflowing of eyes, since the days of St. Niobe, of whom Prior Aymer told us.
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'11 I wish the Prior had also informed them when Niobe was sainted. Probably during that enlightened period when“Pan to Moses lent his pagan horn.” —L.T.';
1 A water-fiend hath possessed the fair Saxon.”
“A legion of fiends have occupied the bosom of the Jewess,” replied the Templar; “for, I think no single one, not even Apollyon himself, could have inspired such indomitable pride and resolution.—But where is Front-de-Bœuf? That horn is sounded more and more clamorously.”
“He is negotiating with the Jew, I suppose,” replied De Bracy coolly; “probably the howls of Isaac have drowned the blast of the bugle. Thou mayest know, by experience, Sir Brian, that a Jew parting with his treasures on such terms as our friend Front-de-Bœuf is like to offer, will raise a clamour loud enough to be heard over twenty horns and trumpets to boot. But we will make the vassals call him.”

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