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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... noble Arab were completely dried by the interval of tranquil exercise , all saving the foam - flakes which were still visible on his bradle and housings . The loose soil on which he trod so much augmented the distress of the Chris ...
... noble Arab were completely dried by the interval of tranquil exercise , all saving the foam - flakes which were still visible on his bradle and housings . The loose soil on which he trod so much augmented the distress of the Chris ...
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... noble hand . The champions formed a striking contrast to each other in persons and features , and might have formed no inaccurate rep- resentatives of their different nations . The Frank seemed a powerful man , built after the ancient ...
... noble hand . The champions formed a striking contrast to each other in persons and features , and might have formed no inaccurate rep- resentatives of their different nations . The Frank seemed a powerful man , built after the ancient ...
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... noble foe ; and though I be poor and unattended , yet I havein- terest to secure for thee , or any such as thou seemest , not safe- ty only , but respect and esteem . There should'st thou see se- veral of the fairest beauties of France ...
... noble foe ; and though I be poor and unattended , yet I havein- terest to secure for thee , or any such as thou seemest , not safe- ty only , but respect and esteem . There should'st thou see se- veral of the fairest beauties of France ...
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... noble Emir , " replied the Knight ; " but my vow is recorded in Heaven , for good or for evil , and I must be indebted to you for pointing me out the way to my resting - place for this evening . " " That , " said the Saracen , " must be ...
... noble Emir , " replied the Knight ; " but my vow is recorded in Heaven , for good or for evil , and I must be indebted to you for pointing me out the way to my resting - place for this evening . " " That , " said the Saracen , " must be ...
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... a 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.
... a 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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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.