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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... present on a sick - bed , and unable to attend his master , who travelled , as we have seen , singly and alone . This was of little consequence to the crusader , who was accustomed to consider his good sword as his safest escort , and ...
... present on a sick - bed , and unable to attend his master , who travelled , as we have seen , singly and alone . This was of little consequence to the crusader , who was accustomed to consider his good sword as his safest escort , and ...
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... presents upon sign- posts . His features were small , well formed , and delicate , though deeply embrowned by the eastern sun , and terminated by a flowing and curled black beard , which seemed trimmed with peculiar care . The nose was ...
... presents upon sign- posts . His features were small , well formed , and delicate , though deeply embrowned by the eastern sun , and terminated by a flowing and curled black beard , which seemed trimmed with peculiar care . The nose was ...
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... present intent ; and , credit me , brave Nazarene , it were better for thyself to turn back thy horse's head towards the camp of thy people ; for , to travel towards Jerusalem without a passport , is but a wilful casting away of thy ...
... present intent ; and , credit me , brave Nazarene , it were better for thyself to turn back thy horse's head towards the camp of thy people ; for , to travel towards Jerusalem without a passport , is but a wilful casting away of thy ...
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... present humble and placid behaviour , it seemed yet more impossible to think it consistent with the high consideration in which , ac- cording to what Sir Kenneth had learned , this hermit was held by the most enlightened divines of the ...
... present humble and placid behaviour , it seemed yet more impossible to think it consistent with the high consideration in which , ac- cording to what Sir Kenneth had learned , this hermit was held by the most enlightened divines of the ...
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... presents , or receiving it from the clemency or contempt of the victors , still continued to observe in private the ritual to which their vows had consecrated them . Yet , though Kenneth knew this to be the case , the solemnity of the ...
... presents , or receiving it from the clemency or contempt of the victors , still continued to observe in private the ritual to which their vows had consecrated them . Yet , though Kenneth knew this to be the case , the solemnity of 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.