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... Saracen had lost his sword and his quiver of arrows , and advanced towards the knight with a speed which soon both of which were attached to the girdle , which he was showed a mounted horseman , whom his turban , long obliged to abandon ...
... Saracen had lost his sword and his quiver of arrows , and advanced towards the knight with a speed which soon both of which were attached to the girdle , which he was showed a mounted horseman , whom his turban , long obliged to abandon ...
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... Saracen Emir formed a marked and striking con- trast with the western crusader . His stature was indeed abere the middle size , but he was at least three inches shorter than the European , whose size approached the gi- gantic . His ...
... Saracen Emir formed a marked and striking con- trast with the western crusader . His stature was indeed abere the middle size , but he was at least three inches shorter than the European , whose size approached the gi- gantic . His ...
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... Saracen ; and as you feed like the brutes , so you degrade " That , too , you call a part of your liberty , ' said the yourself to the bestial condition , by drinking what even they refuse ! ' • Know , foolish Saracen , ' replied the ...
... Saracen ; and as you feed like the brutes , so you degrade " That , too , you call a part of your liberty , ' said the yourself to the bestial condition , by drinking what even they refuse ! ' • Know , foolish Saracen , ' replied the ...
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... Saracens , form striking eras in their history . Since the conquest of Egypt by the Sa- racens , and the removal of the caliphate to that country , the whole maritime tract , from the Egyptian confines to the Straits of Gibraltar , has ...
... Saracens , form striking eras in their history . Since the conquest of Egypt by the Sa- racens , and the removal of the caliphate to that country , the whole maritime tract , from the Egyptian confines to the Straits of Gibraltar , has ...
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... Saracens , and seeks his family in the north . ' Hast thou yet to learn , that the Lords of Eskwood grant hospitality to warrions and dames , but never to priests and pilgrims ? ' Such , I know , is the character they bear ; but ...
... Saracens , and seeks his family in the north . ' Hast thou yet to learn , that the Lords of Eskwood grant hospitality to warrions and dames , but never to priests and pilgrims ? ' Such , I know , is the character they bear ; but ...
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Page 171 - He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule...
Page 35 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Page 140 - Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell — Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave — Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, As eager to anticipate their grave...
Page 42 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 14 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses; But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made.
Page 14 - O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye As the perfumed tincture of the roses, Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses: But, for their virtue only is their show. They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade; Die to themselves.
Page 14 - Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem...
Page 167 - When I am as it were completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer — say, travelling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep — it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not; nor can I force them.
Page 188 - And fill with tears of joy my eyes. What is there my wild heart can prize, That doth not in thy sphere abide ; Haunt of my home-bred sympathies, My own — my own fireside.
Page 3 - ... there happened this extraordinary case,— one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed, but that I did see it...