tailieunhanh - Ivanhoe -Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 7 (p2)

Ivanhoe- Sir Walter Scott -Chapter 7 (p2) 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 p2 It may be here remarked that the knights of these two orders were accounted hostile to King Richard having adopted the side of Philip of France in the long train of disputes which took place in Palestine betwixt that monarch and the lion-hearted King of England. It was the well-known consequence of this discord that Richard s repeated victories had been rendered fruitless his romantic attempts to besiege Jerusalem disappointed and the fruit of all the glory which he had acquired had dwindled into an uncertain truce with the Sultan Saladin. With the same policy which had dictated the conduct of their brethren in the Holy Land the Templars and Hospitallers in England and Normandy attached themselves to the faction of Prince John having little reason to desire the return of Richard to England or the succession of Arthur his legitimate heir. For the opposite reason Prince John hated and contemned the few Saxon families of consequence which subsisted in England and omitted no opportunity of mortifying and affronting them being conscious that his person and pretensions were disliked by them as well as by the greater part of the English commons who feared farther innovation upon their rights and liberties from a sovereign of John s licentious and tyrannical disposition. Attended by this gallant equipage himself well mounted and splendidly dressed in crimson and in gold bearing upon his hand a falcon and having his head covered by a rich fur bonnet adorned with a circle of precious stones from which his long curled hair escaped and overspread his shoulders Prince John upon a grey and high-mettled palfrey caracoled within the lists at the head of his jovial party laughing loud with his train and eyeing with all the boldness of royal criticism the beauties who adorned the lofty galleries. Those who remarked in the physiognomy of the Prince a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness and indifference to the feelings of others .