"Camelot" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... knows the view from Richmond, I should say of Richmond; it is almost my own . . . Far off Sir Bedivere sees Lyonesse submerged; Camelot- at-Sea has capitulated after a second siege to stronger forces. The new Moonet is high in the heaven and a dim Turner-like haze has begun to obscure the landscape and soften the outlines. Under cover of the mist the ...
— Masques & Phases • Robert Ross
... sky— Beauty passing to re-pass, Pearl-white feet across the grass, Crowns of beauty that they wore Given to the dust for more Roses, roses at her door.... All old tales of beauty dead, Hands and hair and lifted head, Gone from cities long forgot: Rimini and Camelot, Lovers who had been like light, Summertime and dream ... and Night ... Now, their night of sleeping gone, Roses rise above ...
— Ships in Harbour • David Morton
... CAMELOT, a place in Somerset, where, it is presumed, King Arthur held his court, and where entrenchments of an old town are still to ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... of the ear to suggest materialism. Further consideration ensued. "Vigil's off, I'm afraid," said Harringay. "Why not Mephistopheles? But that's a bit too common. 'A Friend of the Doge,'—not so seedy. The armour won't do, though. Too Camelot. How about a scarlet robe and call him 'One of the Sacred College'? Humour in that, and an appreciation ...
— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... not Sir Lancelot and Sir Gawain and Sir Perceval remain afar, but took their leave of Sir Agloval and of Morien and of his mother, and rode on their way till they came to King Arthur at Camelot, where he abode, as it pleased him well to do when he would fain be at peace. And when the king heard of the coming of these three knights, then was he right joyful at that time; and when he learnt concerning Sir Agloval, how his wedding feast had ...
— The Romance of Morien • Jessie L. Weston
... the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle leather, The helmet and the helmet feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot. ...
— Second Plays • A. A. Milne
... grand tournaments there at Camelot; and very stirring and picturesque and ridiculous human bull-fights they were, too, but just a little wearisome to the practical mind. However, I was generally on hand—for two reasons: a man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and his community ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... on the bridge of the old pond, drinking deep of the enchantment of the dusk, just at the spot where Anne had climbed from her sinking Dory on the day Elaine floated down to Camelot. The fine, empurpling dye of sunset still stained the western skies, but the moon was rising and the water lay like a great, silver dream in her light. Remembrance wove a sweet and subtle spell over the ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... Natural History" is published by Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons; to the same author for the selection from "Alphabet of Celebrities," published by Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.; and Messrs. Harper & Brothers, the publishers of du Maurier's "A Legend of Camelot;" and to Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., who publish an ...
— The Best Nonsense Verses • Various
... to Camelot, Glad, though for shame his heart waxed hot, For hope within it withered not To see the shaft it dreamed of shot Fair toward the glimmering goal of fame, And all King Arthur's knightliest there Approved him knightly, swift to dare And keen to bid their records bear ...
— The Tale of Balen • Algernon Charles Swinburne
... Invincible of her Sir Launcelot! Some Day—Some Glad Day—she too, will go upward with the Flood, in the Dark Barge, decked with Flowers: clasping in her Beautiful Hand of Gentle Service, the Lily of Fidelity: floating with the Mystic Tide, to meet again—at Towered Camelot— —her Gallant, her Waiting Knight! For Love shares with the Soul ...
— A Spray of Kentucky Pine • George Douglass Sherley
... pourroit faire sa reverence au roi, lui exposer le sujet de son ambassade, et offrir ses presens; car c'est une coutume au-dela des mers qu'on ne paroit jamais devant un prince sans en apporter quelques-uns. Les siens etoient six pieces de camelot de Cypre, je ne sais combien d'aunes d'ecarlate, une quarantaine de pains de sucre, un faucon pelerin et deux arbaletes, avec une douzaine de vires. [Footnote: Vives, grosses fleches qu ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... foot of country for many miles around Centerville. They had roamed over Oak Ridge and the Sunset Mountains, camped on Wildcat Island, situated in Camelot Lake, and scoured ...
— The Outdoor Chums at Cabin Point - or The Golden Cup Mystery • Quincy Allen |
