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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... word of a follower of the Prophet was never broken , " answered the Emir . " It is thou , brave Nazarene , from whom I should demand security , did I not know that treason seldom dwells with courage . " The crusader felt , that the ...
... word of a follower of the Prophet was never broken , " answered the Emir . " It is thou , brave Nazarene , from whom I should demand security , did I not know that treason seldom dwells with courage . " The crusader felt , that the ...
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... word that either had spoken since their truce was concluded , - " your strong horse deserves your care ; but what do you in the desert with an animal , which sinks over the fetlock at every step , as if he would plant each foot deep as ...
... word that either had spoken since their truce was concluded , - " your strong horse deserves your care ; but what do you in the desert with an animal , which sinks over the fetlock at every step , as if he would plant each foot deep as ...
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... word of a dubbed knight ; and were it not that thou speakest in ignorance , and not in malice , our truce had ... words , which , to him , must have appeared either to contain something of mystery , or of imposition . At length he ...
... word of a dubbed knight ; and were it not that thou speakest in ignorance , and not in malice , our truce had ... words , which , to him , must have appeared either to contain something of mystery , or of imposition . At length he ...
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... words pass . ” They were now arrived at the knot of palm - trees , and the fountain which swelled out from beneath ... word signified a sort of sport much used among the French chivalry , which consisted in vying with each other in ...
... words pass . ” They were now arrived at the knot of palm - trees , and the fountain which swelled out from beneath ... word signified a sort of sport much used among the French chivalry , which consisted in vying with each other in ...
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... words , as more convenient for the time . " Thy words , " he said , " O Nazarene , might create anger , did not thy ignorance raise compassion . Sees't thou not , O thou more blind than any who ask alms at the door of the Mosque , that ...
... words , as more convenient for the time . " Thy words , " he said , " O Nazarene , might create anger , did not thy ignorance raise compassion . Sees't thou not , O thou more blind than any who ask alms at the door of the Mosque , that ...
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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.