tailieunhanh - Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 7

Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 7 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott Chapter 7 Knights with a long retinue of their squires In gaudy liveries march and quaint attires One laced the helm another held the lance A third the shining buckler did advance. The courser paw d the ground with restless feet And snorting foam d and champ d the golden bit. The smiths and armourers on palfreys ride Files in their hands and hammers at their side And nails for loosen d spears and thongs for shields provide. The yeomen guard the streets in seemly bands And clowns come crowding on with cudgels in their hands. Palamon and Arcite The condition of the English nation was at this time sufficiently miserable. King Richard was absent a prisoner and in the power of the perfidious and cruel Duke of Austria. Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain and his fate but very imperfectly known to the generality of his subjects who were in the meantime a prey to every species of subaltern oppression. Prince John in league with Philip of France Coeur-de-Lion s mortal enemy was using every species of influence with the Duke of Austria to prolong the captivity of his brother Richard to whom he stood indebted for so many favours. In the meantime he was strengthening his own faction in the kingdom of which he proposed to dispute the succession in case of the King s death with the legitimate heir Arthur Duke of Brittany son of Geoffrey Plantagenet the elder brother of John. This usurpation it is well known he afterwards effected. His own character being light profligate and perfidious John easily attached to his person and faction not only all who had reason to dread the resentment of Richard for criminal proceedings during his absence but also the numerous class of lawless resolutes whom the crusades had turned back on their country accomplished in the vices of the East impoverished in substance and hardened in character and who placed their hopes of harvest in civil commotion. To these causes of public distress and apprehension must be