The talismanArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London., 1825 - 368 páginas |
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... combat , came like a cloud over his mind , and fasting , lassitude , and fatigue , oppressed his bodily powers . El Ha- kim examined his hurried pulse , his red and in- flamed eye , his heated hand , and his shortened 194 TALES OF THE ...
... combat , came like a cloud over his mind , and fasting , lassitude , and fatigue , oppressed his bodily powers . El Ha- kim examined his hurried pulse , his red and in- flamed eye , his heated hand , and his shortened 194 TALES OF THE ...
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... combat ? " " And if I did , ” said Sir Kenneth , haughtily , " he would neither be the first nor the best tur- ban that I have couched lance at . ' 66 Ay , but methinks he might regard it as too unequal a mode of perilling the chance of ...
... combat ? " " And if I did , ” said Sir Kenneth , haughtily , " he would neither be the first nor the best tur- ban that I have couched lance at . ' 66 Ay , but methinks he might regard it as too unequal a mode of perilling the chance of ...
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... of small rank or respect ; his offensive wea- pons were only a club , his defensive a leathern jerkin . But we cannot degrade a prince to rude arms , or such a combat . " " I never meant that you should , " said 236 TALES OF THE CRUSADERS .
... of small rank or respect ; his offensive wea- pons were only a club , his defensive a leathern jerkin . But we cannot degrade a prince to rude arms , or such a combat . " " I never meant that you should , " said 236 TALES OF THE CRUSADERS .
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... combat in respect of the evidence we brought forth against him — A king , at least , is more than the mate of a marquis . " Conrade made no hasty effort to seize on the pledge which Richard cast into the middle of the assembly , and ...
... combat in respect of the evidence we brought forth against him — A king , at least , is more than the mate of a marquis . " Conrade made no hasty effort to seize on the pledge which Richard cast into the middle of the assembly , and ...
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... combat , doubt not that , since Conrade declines to meet us in person , I will find a champion to appear in support of my challenge ; for thou , William , must not thrust thy long sword into this quarrel without our special licence ...
... combat , doubt not that , since Conrade declines to meet us in person , I will find a champion to appear in support of my challenge ; for thou , William , must not thrust thy long sword into this quarrel without our special licence ...
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Página 237 - ... companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe — remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor — he is the friend of man, save when man justly incurs his enmity.
Página 159 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Página 310 - ... across the cushion, applying the edge so dexterously, and with so little apparent effort, that the cushion seemed rather to fall asunder than to be divided by violence.
Página 265 - I weep not for an absent swain, for time may happier hours recall, And parted lovers meet again. " I weep not for the silent dead, Their pains are past, their sorrows o'er, And those that loved their steps must tread, When death shall join to part no more.