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There are countless thousands of truly chivalrous men, who have the true chivalry whose foundation is justice who would protect all women from injury or insult or injustice, but who know that they cannot do it who know that in spite of all they can do, women are often outraged, insulted, ill-treated.
All through the declining day did the gentle sound continue; now of grand chants or hymns caught from the cathedral choir, now of songs of chivalry or saintly legend so often sung over the evening fire; the one flowing into the other in the wandering of failing powers, but never failing in the tender sweetness that had distinguished Friedel through life.
"Now," replied De Valence, "you again speak like a true son of chivalry. With your permission I would summon this minstrel to our presence. His fidelity to his mistress has been remarkable; and, as matters stand now, we must take instant measures for tracing the place of her retreat."
With the native chivalry of the woodsman, he cared first for the girl. Between her lips he thrust his drinking- horn and held her head against his shoulder. "My little ma'm'selle-ma'm'selle!" he said. "Wake up. It is nothing you are safe. Ah, the sweet lady! Come, let me see the colour of your eyes. Wake up it is nothing." Presently the girl did open her eyes.
What noble family but springs from a captain among robbers? Trade alone can spoil our blood; robbery purifies it. The robbery of one age is the chivalry of the next. We may start anew, and vie with even the nobility of France, if we can once enrol but half the Doones upon our lineage."
"'When the great Frederick of Prussia sent his portrait to Washington, with this inscription upon it "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest general in the world," he did but echo the sentiment of all the chivalry of Europe.
Still," he added earnestly, as the opposition began to murmur, "when a woman does come into our lives, whatever type she may be, she lacks nothing in the way of chivalry, and it rests with herself whether she remains an outsider or becomes just One of Us.
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT, one of the brilliant figures of Elizabeth's reign scholar, poet, courageous adventurer, and man of chivalry stimulated by the discoveries of Frobisher, obtained a patent or charter in 1578, and, after several unsuccessful attempts, led an expedition of small sailing ships to Newfoundland, where he entered St.
In the honest bosom of this heroic Dutchman dwelt the seven noble virtues of knighthood, flourishing among his hardy qualities like wild flowers among rocks. He was, in truth, a hero of chivalry struck off by Nature at a single heat, and though little care may have been taken to refine her workmanship, he stood forth a miracle of her skill.
The Fairy Land of Spenser is rather the Land of Chivalry than the region we are accustomed to understand by that term; a scene in which heroic daring and ideal purity are the objects chiefly presented to our imagination, in which the principal personages are knights achieving perilous adventures, ladies rescued from frightful miseries, and good and evil enchanters, whose spells affect the destiny of those human persons.
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