 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 228 pages
...As an offended sovereign, Conrad had refused all terms of capitulation to the garrison of Winesberg; but as a courteous knight he permitted the women to...procession of matrons, each bearing a husband, or at least a man, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. This moral story, which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1815 - 720 pages
...As an offended sovereign, Conrad had refusal all terms of capitulation to the garrison of Winesberg; but as a courteous knight he permitted the women to...procession of matrons, each bearing a husband, or at least a man, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. This moral story, which... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1821 - 636 pages
...women to depart from it, with such of their precious effects as they themselves could carry. The gates were thrown open ; and a long procession of matrons, each bearing a husband on her shoulders, appeared, and was permitted to pass in safety through the camp. To Guelph Vlll, Henry... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 538 pages
...women to depart from it, with such of their precious effects as they themselves could carry. The gates were thrown open ; and a long procession of matrons, each bearing a husband on her shoulders, appeared, and was permitted to pass in safety through the camp. To Guelph the eighth,... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 544 pages
...women to depart from it, with such of their precious effects as they themselves could cany. The gates were thrown open ; and a long procession of matrons, each bearing a husband on her shoulders, appeared, and was permitted to pass in safety through the camp. To Guelph the eighth,... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1825 - 448 pages
...Corbie. La les fit le roi conduire sans pareil. and the Ghibellines, the Emperor Conrad, as an CHAP. v. offended sovereign, had refused all .terms of capitulation...of matrons, each bearing a husband, or a father, or brother, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. * Some writers have severely... | |
 | Charles Mills - 1825 - 442 pages
...Corbie. La les fit le roi conduire sans pareil. and the Ghibellines, the Emperor Conrad, as an CHAP. v. offended sovereign, had refused all terms of capitulation...of matrons, each bearing a husband, or a father, or brother, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. * Some writers have severely... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1829 - 314 pages
...precious effects as they themselves could carry. The gates of the town were thrown open, and a long train of matrons, each bearing a husband, or a father, or...shoulders, passed, in safety, through the applauding camp. friend; and many of her duties were those of personal attendance. As the young candidate for chivalric... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...the Ghibellines, the emperor Conrad, as an offended sovereign, had refused all terms of capitals tion to the garrison of Winnisberg ; but as a courteous...of matrons, each bearing a husband or a father, or brother, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. 9. Tournaments- and Jousts.... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...all ; Rolls the swift planets in their spheres, And counts the sinner's lonely tears. — CUNNINGHAM. IN the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, the Emperor...procession of matrons, each bearing a husband, or a fattier, or brother, on her shoulders, passed in safety through the applauding camp. — MILL'S History... | |
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Guelphs and the Ghibellines, the emperor Conrad, as an offended sovereign, had refused all terms of capitulation to the garrison of Winnisberg ; but as a courteous knight, he permitted the women to depart with such of their precious effects as they themselves... 
