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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Page 56
... dwarf , with a large head , a cap fantastically adorned with three peacock - feathers , a dress of red samite , the richness of which rendered his ugliness more conspicuous , distinguished . by gold bracelets and armlets , and a white ...
... dwarf , with a large head , a cap fantastically adorned with three peacock - feathers , a dress of red samite , the richness of which rendered his ugliness more conspicuous , distinguished . by gold bracelets and armlets , and a white ...
Page 57
... dwarf again whistled , and summoned from beneath a companion who rivalled him in ugliness . This second figure as- cended in the same manner as the first ; but it was a female arm , in this second instance , which upheld the lamp from ...
... dwarf again whistled , and summoned from beneath a companion who rivalled him in ugliness . This second figure as- cended in the same manner as the first ; but it was a female arm , in this second instance , which upheld the lamp from ...
Page 58
... dwarf Nectabanus , " said the abortion - seeming male , in a voice corresponding to his figure , and resembling the ... dwarfs had no sooner heard the command , than gibber- ing in discordant whispers to each other , they blew out ...
... dwarf Nectabanus , " said the abortion - seeming male , in a voice corresponding to his figure , and resembling the ... dwarfs had no sooner heard the command , than gibber- ing in discordant whispers to each other , they blew out ...
Page 118
... dwarfs , and minstrels , were there in unusual numbers , and more noisy and intrusive than they were permitted to be in better regula- ted society . As they were allowed to share freely in the wine which flowed round in large quantities ...
... dwarfs , and minstrels , were there in unusual numbers , and more noisy and intrusive than they were permitted to be in better regula- ted society . As they were allowed to share freely in the wine which flowed round in large quantities ...
Page 133
... dwarfs whom he had seen in the chapel at Engaddi . Recollecting , at the same moment , the other and far different visions of that extraordinary night , he gave his dog a signal , which he instantly understood , and returning to the ...
... dwarfs whom he had seen in the chapel at Engaddi . Recollecting , at the same moment , the other and far different visions of that extraordinary night , he gave his dog a signal , which he instantly understood , and returning to the ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.