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Inveni fateor in rege monachum, claustrum in curia, in palatio monasterii disciplinam. I confess that I found in the king a monk, in the court a cloister, and in the palace the discipline of a monastery.
And therefore, at the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon oother.
But Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.
The court he practised, not the courtier's art: Large was his wealth, but larger was his heart.
I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.
We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.
A court is onlyas sound as its jury, and a jury is onlyas sound as the men who make it up.
Chutzpahthat quality which enables a man who has murdered his mother and father to throw himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
'What tydynges at Camelot?'seyde that on knyght.'By my hede, there have I been and aspied the courte of kynge Arthure, and there ys such a felyshyp that they may never be brokyn, and well-nyghe all the world holdith with Arthure, for there ys the floure of chevalry.'
Before the starry threshold of Jove's court My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live inspher'd In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth.
To theTennis Court, and there saw the King playat tennis and others; but to see how the King's play was extolled, without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight.
To that high Capital, where kingly Death Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay, He came.
He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike anawe intothe beholders.
'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through the court, and round the judges thronging thickly, With prayers they dare not speak aloud Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar You can see them through the gloom In the pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are Awaiting their death-doom.
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