"Richard the lion-hearted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... almost mythical personage. A favorite trick of the makers of legends is to connect their heroes with celebrated contemporaries, as though brilliance was reflected from one upon the other. Thus Saladin was connected with Maimonides and with Richard the Lion-Hearted, and, similarly, Rashi with ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber
... the king of England, Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had been absent from England on a Crusade and had come back without allowing his brother John to ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 • Charles H. Sylvester
... was in line of battle against the Saracen; when the Knights of the Temple vied with the knights of other orders each striving to carry their flag farthest into that thorny jungle of flashing scimitars, and the huge arm of King Richard the Lion-hearted hewed a red road for them all which none could equal; for was he not the strongest man in the two entire armies—this King who could sever an iron bar with a swordstroke? But ever as he plunged with fresh zeal and ringing warcry into ...
— The Iron Star - And what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages • John Preston True |
