The talismanE. Duyckinck, Collins & Hannay, Collins & Company, E. Bliss and E. White, and W.B. Gilley. J. & J. Harper, printers, 1825 |
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... holds no living fish in its bosom , bears no skiff on its surface , and , as if its own dreadful bed were the only fit receptacle for its sullen waters , sends not , like other lakes , a tribute to the ocean . The whole land around , as ...
... holds no living fish in its bosom , bears no skiff on its surface , and , as if its own dreadful bed were the only fit receptacle for its sullen waters , sends not , like other lakes , a tribute to the ocean . The whole land around , as ...
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... hold , and thus eluding his fatal grasp , mounted his horse , which seemed to watch his motions with the intelligence of a human being , and again rode off . But in the last encounter the Saracen had lost his sword and his quiver of ...
... hold , and thus eluding his fatal grasp , mounted his horse , which seemed to watch his motions with the intelligence of a human being , and again rode off . But in the last encounter the Saracen had lost his sword and his quiver of ...
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... hold it for glee and pastime to gab , as they term it , of exploits that are beyond hu- man power . I were wrong to challenge , for the time , the priv- ilege of thy speech , since boasting is more natural to thee than truth . " " I am ...
... hold it for glee and pastime to gab , as they term it , of exploits that are beyond hu- man power . I were wrong to challenge , for the time , the priv- ilege of thy speech , since boasting is more natural to thee than truth . " " I am ...
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... hold it in my grateful remembrance ; for never did water slake more deliciously a more oppressive thirst than I have this day ex- perienced . " " It is called in the Arabic language , " answered the Saracen , " by a name which signifies ...
... hold it in my grateful remembrance ; for never did water slake more deliciously a more oppressive thirst than I have this day ex- perienced . " " It is called in the Arabic language , " answered the Saracen , " by a name which signifies ...
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... line neither less wild nor less warlike . Know , Sir Knight of the Leopard , that I am Sheerkohf , the the Lion of the Mountain , and that Kurdistan , from which I derive my descent , holds no family more noble than 24.
... line neither less wild nor less warlike . Know , Sir Knight of the Leopard , that I am Sheerkohf , the the Lion of the Mountain , and that Kurdistan , from which I derive my descent , holds no family more noble than 24.
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anchorite answered Arab Archbishop of Tyre arms attendants Austria baron battle Berengaria betwixt Blondel blood brave camp chapel chivalry Christendom Christian combat command Conrade couch crusaders desert Duke of Austria dwarf Edith Plantagenet Emir Engaddi exclaimed eyes fair faith fear Gilsland grace Grand Master Hakim hand hath head heard Heaven hermit holy honour horse hound infidel King of England King Richard kinswoman Lady Edith lance Leopard liege Lion look manner marabout Marquis of Montserrat methinks monarch Nectabanus Neville noble Nubian Palestine pavilion person physician poniard present princes Prophet Queen rank rendered replied Richard of England Richard Plantagenet royal sage Saint Saint George Saladin Saracen Scot Scottish knight seemed Sir Kenneth slave Soldan soldier speak stood sword Templar tent thee thine Thomas de Vaux thou art thou hast thou wilt thyself tion tone turban voice warriors western warrior words yonder
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Página 58 - 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 134 - Fell thirst and famine scowl A baleful smile upon their baffled guest. Heard ye the din of battle bray, Lance to lance, and horse to horse ? Long years of havoc urge their destined course, And thro' the kindred squadrons mow their way.
Página 3 - THE burning sun of Syria had not yet attained its highest point in the horizon, when a knight of the Red-cross, who had left his distant northern home, and joined the host of the crusaders in Palestine, was pacing slowly along the sandy deserts which lie in the vicinity of the Dead Sea, or, as it is called, the Lake Asphaltites, where the waves of the Jordan pour themselves into an inland sea, from which there is no discharge of waters.
Página 5 - An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting. The flat top of his cumbrous cylindrical helmet was unadorned with any crest. In retaining their own unwieldy defensive...
Página 6 - In the desert," saith an Eastern proverb, " no man meets a friend." The Crusader was totally indifferent whether the infidel, who now approached on his gallant barb as if borne on the wings of an eagle, came as friend or foe ; perhaps, as a vowed champion of the Cross, he might rather have preferred the latter. He disengaged his lance from...
Página 93 - ... 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 7 - His own long spear was not couched or levelled like that of his antagonist, but grasped by the middle with his right hand, and brandished at arm's length above his head. As the cavalier approached his enemy at full career, he seemed to expect that the Knight of the Leopard should put his horse to the gallop to encounter him.