The Universal Anthology
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217616980
Paperback|9780217616980
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AMADIS AND ORIANA. (From Amadis de Gaul, translated by Robert Southey.) Amadls de Gaul was the best and most famous of the romances of chivalry which turned Don Quixote's head, aud Cervantes exempts it from the holocaust which overtook the remainder of the knight's library. Its fame and influence date from a French version in the middle of the sixteenth century; but it is believed to have been originally written in Portuguee in the fourteenth, perhaps by Vasco de Lobeira, an eminent captain of that age.] Amadis' Parentage. Not many years after the passion of our Redeemer, there was a Christian king in the lesser Britain, by name Garinter, who being in the law of truth, was of much devotion and good ways. This king had two daughters by a noble lady, his wife. The eldest was married to Languines, King of Scotland; she was called the Lady of the Garland, because her husband, taking great pleasure to behold her beautiful tresses, would have them covered only with a chaplet of flowers. Agrayes and Mabilia were their children, a knight and damsel of whom in this history much mention is made. Elisena, the other daughter, was far more beautiful, and although she had been demanded in marriage by many great princes, yet she would wed with none, but for her solitary and holy life was commonly called the Lost Devotee, because it was considered that for one of such rank, gifted with such beauty and sought in marriage by so many chiefs, this way of life was not fitting. King Garinter, who was somewhat stricken in years, took delight in hunting. It happened one day, that having gone from his town of Alima to the chase, and being separated from his people, as he went along the forest saying his prayers, he saw to the left a brave battle of one knight against two. Soon had h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217616980 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217616984 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $24.02 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 372 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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