The Works of Washington Irving in Twelve Volumes, Volume 5Putnam, 1881 |
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... cross , the tree of our redemption , erected in its stead . Nearly eight hundred years were past and gone , since the Arabian invaders had sealed the perdition of Spain , by the defeat of Don Roderick , the last of her Gothic kings.
... cross , the tree of our redemption , erected in its stead . Nearly eight hundred years were past and gone , since the Arabian invaders had sealed the perdition of Spain , by the defeat of Don Roderick , the last of her Gothic kings.
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... hundred Christian captives , or in default of captives , to give an equal number of Moors as hostages ; all to be delivered at the city of Cordova . * The truce , however , was of a partial nature , with singular re- servations . It did ...
... hundred Christian captives , or in default of captives , to give an equal number of Moors as hostages ; all to be delivered at the city of Cordova . * The truce , however , was of a partial nature , with singular re- servations . It did ...
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... hundred and eighty- one , and but a night or two after the festival of the most blessed Nativity , the inhabitants of Zahara were sunk in profound sleep ; the very sentinel had deserted his post , and sought shelter from a tempest which ...
... hundred and eighty- one , and but a night or two after the festival of the most blessed Nativity , the inhabitants of Zahara were sunk in profound sleep ; the very sentinel had deserted his post , and sought shelter from a tempest which ...
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... hundred men were dispatched to scale the walls and get possession of the castle . They were picked men , many of them alcaydes and officers , men who preferred death to dishonor . This gallant band was guided by the escalador Ortega de ...
... hundred men were dispatched to scale the walls and get possession of the castle . They were picked men , many of them alcaydes and officers , men who preferred death to dishonor . This gallant band was guided by the escalador Ortega de ...
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... hundred picked men had mounted the battlements . The garrison , startled from sleep , found the enemy already masters of the towers . Some of the Moors were cut down at once , others fought desperately from room to room , and the whole ...
... hundred picked men had mounted the battlements . The garrison , startled from sleep , found the enemy already masters of the towers . Some of the Moors were cut down at once , others fought desperately from room to room , and the whole ...
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Common terms and phrases
alcayde Alcazaba alfaquis Alhama Alhambra Alonzo de Aguilar Andalusia armor arms army arrived Atar attack Ayxa Ballymahon banner battle battlements Baza beheld Boabdil el Chico brother captives Castilian Castilian sovereigns castle cavaliers CHAPTER chivalry Christian Christian camp Cid Hiaya commanders Cordova count de Cabra defence defiles Don Alonzo duke El Zagal enemy faith fight fire foot foray force fortress Fray Antonio Agapida friends frontier garrison gates gave Goldsmith Granada Guadix guard Hamet el Zegri hand heart height holy horse Illora infidels inhabitants Isabella Johnson king Ferdinand kingdom kingdom of Granada lance los Palacios Loxa marques of Cadiz monarch Moorish Moorish king Moors mountains Muley Abul Hassan night noble Palacios passed peril Pulgar queen received retreat rocks Ronda royal sallied scene sent siege soldiers Spanish spirit steed surrender sword tion towers town troops valiant valley valor vega Velez Malaga walls warriors wounded Xenel Zagal Zahara
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Page 23 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Page 21 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 249 - Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Page 68 - To men of other minds my fancy flies, Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride. Onward methinks, and diligently slow, The firm connected bulwark seems to grow ; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire, and usurps the shore...
Page 252 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...
Page 223 - A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year ; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place...
Page 21 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain. The long-remembered beggar was his guest, Whose beard descending swept his aged breast...
Page 263 - Here Hickey reclines, a most blunt pleasant creature, And slander itself must allow him good nature ; He cherish'd his friend, and he relish'da bumper ; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Perhaps you may ask if the man was a miser ? I answer, No, no, for he always was wiser. Too courteous, perhaps, or obligingly flat ? His very worst foe can't accuse him of that.
Page 249 - Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose.
Page 233 - Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, — as a comick writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class.' BOSWELL. 'An historian! My dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History with the works of other historians of this age?