Hans J. Klarskov MortensenSir Walter Scot "Ivanhoe, Chapter 1"05-12-2003several sties, With din obstreperous, andungrateful cries. Pope's _Odysseyindex199greater part of the beautiful hills andvalleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleaindex436valleys which lie between Sheffield andthe pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains ofindex477of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, andaround Rotherham. Here haunted of yore the fabuindex626during the Civil Wars of the Roses; andhere also flourished in ancient times those bandindex793during the reign of Stephen, andwhom the prudence of Henry the Second had scarceindex1324around them to a state of vassalage, andstriving by every means in their power, to placeindex1681as they were called, who, by the law andspirit of the English constitution, were entitleindex1971by mutual treaties of alliance andprotection, to support him in his enterprises, tindex2338was so dear to every English bosom, andat the certain hazard of being involved as a parindex2534undertake. On the other hand, such andso multiplied were the means of vexation and oppindex2707multiplied were the means of vexation andoppression possessed by the great Barons, that tindex2753that they never wanted the pretext, andseldom the will, to harass and pursue, even to tindex2836and seldom the will, to harass andpursue, even to the very edge of destruction, anindex2868themselves from their authority, andto trust for their protection, during the dangerindex3019to their own inoffensive conduct, andto the laws of the land. A circumstance whichindex3123enhance the tyranny of the nobility, andthe sufferings of the inferior classes, arose frindex3232the hostile blood of the Normans andAnglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language anindex3431or to unite, by common language andmutual interests, two hostile races, one of whicindex3482the event of the battle of Hastings, andit had been used, as our histories assure us, wiindex3753hand. The whole race of Saxon princes andnobles had been extirpated or disinherited, withindex3861subjects; the laws of the chase, andmany others equally unknown to the milder and moindex4422others equally unknown to the milder andmore free spirit of the Saxon constitution, hadindex4469which they were loaded. At court, andin the castles of the great nobles, where the poindex4670of the great nobles, where the pomp andstate of a court was emulated, Norman-French wasindex4726in courts of law, the pleadings andjudgments were delivered in the same tongue. Iindex4842the language of honour, of chivalry, andeven of justice, while the far more manly and exindex4953of justice, while the far more manly andexpressive Anglo-Saxon was abandoned to the useindex5000was abandoned to the use of rustics andhinds, who knew no other. Still, however, theindex5064between the lords of the soil, andthose oppressed inferior beings by whom that soiindex5171compounded betwixt the French andthe Anglo-Saxon, in which they could render themindex5321mutually intelligible to each other; andfrom this necessity arose by degrees the structuindex5419in which the speech of the victors andthe vanquished have been so happily blended togeindex5544been so happily blended together; andwhich has since been so richly improved by imporindex5604from the classical languages, andfrom those spoken by the southern nations of Eurindex5695