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... steed was by his side . He pointed to the group ; - As if to say : " Bear hence , my steed , " Thy mistress on thy croup . " Then off the faithful courser dash'd , And knelt beside the bride ; She boldly sprung upon his back , And ...
... steed was by his side . He pointed to the group ; - As if to say : " Bear hence , my steed , " Thy mistress on thy croup . " Then off the faithful courser dash'd , And knelt beside the bride ; She boldly sprung upon his back , And ...
Page 48
... steed and a knight , with whom his mistress had maliciously kept an appointment during his sleep : - " Where were you , my good grey steed , " That I have loved so dear ? " Why would you not awaken me " When my true love was here ...
... steed and a knight , with whom his mistress had maliciously kept an appointment during his sleep : - " Where were you , my good grey steed , " That I have loved so dear ? " Why would you not awaken me " When my true love was here ...
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... steed by night was shod , And hurrying on his dismal road , He thus besought his God : - " Oh ! may the captive Christian priests , " The hostage primates prove " A pledge that , though the Klephts have risen , " The Rayahs dare not ...
... steed by night was shod , And hurrying on his dismal road , He thus besought his God : - " Oh ! may the captive Christian priests , " The hostage primates prove " A pledge that , though the Klephts have risen , " The Rayahs dare not ...
Page 101
... steed " Immers'd in Christian gore ? " Kiamil , Bey of Corinth , and the richest lord in the Ottoman empire , having imprison'd the primates and bishops of the Morea , with the view of checking the incipient revolt , was besieged by the ...
... steed " Immers'd in Christian gore ? " Kiamil , Bey of Corinth , and the richest lord in the Ottoman empire , having imprison'd the primates and bishops of the Morea , with the view of checking the incipient revolt , was besieged by the ...
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... steed , He shod his feet by night ; With silver bars and golden nails That Arab's hoofs were bright . And round the conscious courser's neck A costly bridle rung , More fit to grace a beauty's brow , With pearls profusely strung . The ...
... steed , He shod his feet by night ; With silver bars and golden nails That Arab's hoofs were bright . And round the conscious courser's neck A costly bridle rung , More fit to grace a beauty's brow , With pearls profusely strung . The ...
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Acarnania Æneid Albanian Ali Pasha ancient Greece Armatòles Armatoloi arms ballad beauteous beauty bird blade Botzaris brave breast breath bridal bride brother brow call'd captain chaunted Christian Constantine corse courser Crete cried curse death Demos Diakos dost thou e'er Euboea eyes father Fauriel fear fill'd flowers foes freedom Gardiki girl glaive glorious gold Græcia's Grecian Greece Greek Guekas hand hast head heart joyous Katzantoni kiss Klephtai Klephtic Klephts lips lord lover Marco Botzaris Morea Moslem mother mountain ne'er never night o'er Pasha plain prey pride priest reader return'd rhyme roar sable sabre sailors young seized sing sire slaves sleep song soul steed stream Sublime Porte Suli Suliots Sultan sword tears thee Thessaly thine translated Turkish Turks Twas vine Wallachia watch'd wild wilt wretched youth καὶ μὲ νὰ τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοὺς
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Page 174 - Wi ae lock o his gowden hair We'll theek our nest when it grows bare. "Mony a one for him makes mane, But nane sail ken where he is gane; Oer his white banes when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair.
Page 7 - With a downe, There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as blacke as they might be. With a downe derrie, derrie, derrie, downe, downe. The one of them said to his mate, "Where shall we our breakefast take?
Page 7 - In behint yon auld fail dyke, I wot there lies a new-slain Knight ; And naebody kens that he lies there, But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ' His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another...
Page 7 - His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's ta'en another mate, So we may mak our dinner sweet. "Ye'll sit on his white hause-bane, And I'll pike out his bonny blue een; Wi...
Page xxv - were hardy to a degree scarcely credible to more effeminate nations. They had no fixed encampment; wandering in summer among the higher, in winter, over the lower mountainous regions; but they always had a spot for rendezvous and occasional sojourn, call'd Limeri, situated near the Armatolik, from which they had been driven.
Page xxvi - Pain found their courage as untameable as thirst and hunger; although every Klepht taken alive was inevitably subjected, before the relief of death, to the most dreadful and protracted tortures. There is but one record, that of Katzantoni, whose mind had been previously subdued by long sickness, of a Klepht evincing even apparent consciousness of what he suffered.
Page 52 - Armatoloi in Acarnania, fell, in the year 1806, into the hands of Ali Pasha, who threw him into a deep dungeon, where he lay for many months, chained and immersed in mud and water. By means of a long sash and a file, he one night escaped from his prison ; but the gates being closed, it was impossible for him to leave the citadel before morning ; and then he was nearly hopeless of eluding discovery.
Page xxvi - Niko-Tzaras could jump over seven horses standing abreast; and others could clear, at one leap, three waggons fill'd with thorns, to the height of eight feet. Their powers of abstinence were not less surprising; and a band of Klephts have been known to combat during three days and nights, without either eating, drinking, or sleeping: an instance of this may be found in the 29th Ballad of the first Class and Part.
Page 58 - The greedy disposition of Ali Pasha pursued these poor and harmless tribes into their mountain wilds, confiscating their numerous flocks, invading their pastures, and heavily taxing their little pastoral wealth. Katzantoni and his brothers...
Page 8 - Come down, come down, my bonny bird, And eat bread aff my hand ! Your cage shall be of wiry goud, Whar now it's but the wand.