"Guenevere" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Kings whom Arthur helped to rebuild their towns and restore order, was King Leodegrance of Cameliard. Now Leodegrance had one fair child, his daughter Guenevere; and from the time that first he saw her, Arthur gave her all his love. So he sought counsel of Merlin, his chief adviser. Merlin heard the King sorrowfully, and he said: "Sir King, when a man's heart is set, he may not change. Yet had it been ...
— Heroes Every Child Should Know • Hamilton Wright Mabie
... bliss forlorn, Fled from the laughter clear Of happy lovers, and love's silent noon; All night beneath the moon He strode, his spirit torn For Guenevere! All night on Guenevere He cried aloud Unto the moonlit ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... Press, including one that was not used, but excluding the three borders designed for The Earthly Paradise by R. Catterson-Smith, is fifty-seven. The first book to contain a marginal ornament, other than these full borders, was The Defence of Guenevere, which has a half-border on p. 74. There are two others in the preface to The Golden Legend. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye is the first book in which there is a profusion of such ornament. One hundred ...
— The Art and Craft of Printing • William Morris
... College, Oxford. On leaving the University he wished to become a painter, but his studies were not sufficiently successful to warrant him carrying out his intention. He also paid some attention to the study of architecture. In 1858 he published a small volume entitled The Defence of Guenevere and other Poems, which received but little notice at the time; but The Life and Death of Jason, published in 1867, attracted general attention, and his reputation was further greatly increased by The Earthly Paradise, ...
— English Book Collectors • William Younger Fletcher |
