Compared with this, all other purposes in literature, except the purely lyrical or the purely philosophic, are bastard in nature, facile of execution, and feeble in result.
In Naples the celebrated Abarbanel became the confidential adviser of Ferdinand the Bastard and Alphonso II.
The Bastard of Burgundy prayed for leave to continue his enterprise; and the Lord Scales consented.
Perhaps the most interesting joust in the middle ages was that which was held between Lord Scales, brother of the Queen of Edward the Fourth, and the Bastard of Burgundy.
Joust between Lord Scales and theBastard of Burgundy .
The Bastard received the letter on the last day of April, and with permission of his father, the Duke of Burgundy, he consented to assist the Lord Scales in accomplishing his emprise.
The Bastardaccordingly set sail for England, nobly accompanied by four hundred of his father's prowest chivalry.
The young lord, with the grace and modesty of chivalry, replied, that he solicited the honor of presenting himself before his sovereign liege the King, in order to accomplish his arms against the Bastard of Burgundy.
Respice, (vin rape) was the produce of unbruised grapes, and Bastard was a sweet Spanish wine.
The Chevalier de la Marche accompanied the Bastard of Burgundy to England, and his Memoirs furnish a few particulars not noticed by English writers.
This sentence was a virtual prohibition of the continuance of the joust, and the Bastard therefore relinquished his challenge.
Sidenote: Joust between Lord Scales and the Bastard of Burgundy.
The rise of Alessandro de' Medici, to which the bastard Pope Clement VII.
The fact that led to the recognition of this bastard as chief of the republic and head of the house of the Medici was his marriage with Margaret of Austria, natural daughter of Charles V.
And from this love-match with a tanner's daughter sprang William theBastard in 1028.
Thou wearest false robes; thou blasphemest against heaven, that thy strength in wrong may be secure-yea, we fear thy end is fast coming badly, for thou art the bastard offspring of Republicanism so purely planted in our land.
It nurtures a frail democracy, and from its bastard offspring we have a tyrant dying by the hand of a tyrant, and the spoils of tyranny serving the good growth of the Christian church.
Semper and others have called them a bastard race, but the Jesuit missionaries, who have turned a great number of them to Christianity, call them "los verdaderos negritos aborigines de Mindanao.
The bastard children of this connection were the handsomest and cleverest in the world; but they were likewise the wickedest, wavering between the two parties, paying no regard to laws or customs except where they suited their own interests.
The Phoenicians (Puniers or Carthaginians) are a bastardrace of the blood of Frya, Finda, and Lyda.
We had done this out of friendship for Nearchus, because we knew that he was of bastard birth by his white skin, blue eyes, and fair hair.
Nevertheless, Sire, if one join to them the Calvinists, and all the little bastard Sects, it would not be so bad a post.
Rememberest thou, how the Norman sword won Sicily, and how the bastard William converted on the field of Hastings his baton into a sceptre.
William the Bastard could scarce have found the hardy Englishers so easy a conquest as Walter the Well-born may find these eunuch Romans.
But what the most my mind doth ruffle, I've lost my bastard in the scuffle.
Of all Jove's sons, a bastard host, For reasons good, I hate thee most.
Suppose he were to preach in London or Paris or New York against this bastard civilization, and expatiate on Nature's largess, of which it robs us?
Bastard or Modern Western Civilization: the art of inventing fictitious wants and working to supply them.
In bastard civilization life becomes poorer and poorer, paltrier and paltrier, till at last life goes out of fashion altogether, and is supplanted by work.
But as time passed the coming of a bastard was noised about the Court and the coffee-houses long before he arrived.
Let who would call me bastard Prepare to feel the sting a bastard feels.
It had been arranged that the execution should be intrusted to them, in conjunction with the Bastard of Angoulême, Charles's natural brother, and Marshal Tavannes.
D'Ucello's clerk said, "The podesta believes he is a Ghibellino spy sent here by the bastard King Manfred.
If Simon de Gobignon, a bastard and an impostor, led this army to its destruction, what name was there for such a crime?
May it please God that the bastard Manfred be the last of them.
Unless you set one there, knowing that I am--I am a bastard and an impostor.
What I told you last time--that I am a bastard and that the last Count de Gobignon was not my real father--does that make you less willing to marry me?
The law: that a bastard may not enter into the congregation of the Lord," began Reb Nochum again, "is unreasonable.
Are you not acquainted with the article 'a bastard profoundly versed in scripture is superior in dignity to a high priest who is less deserving.
There are no bastards in Ireland; and the bastard is the outward sign of inward grace.
For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation.
That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth.
He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it; And at the best shows but a bastard valor.
The Somal unhesitatingly stigmatize them as a bastard and ignoble race: a noted genealogist once informed me, that they were little better than Midgans or serviles.
William Bastard was not a king's son; but he was consecrated and crowned king of England, and the royalty in England has ever since remained with his race, and all have been crowned.
Castellano in the Spanish Camara, announcing the discovery of the revolutionary movement headed by the Katipunan, the bastard child of Filipino freemasonry.
