Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral and Entertaining Passages from the Most Eminent Prose Writers, Volume 5Sharpe and Hailes, 1812 |
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... renegado band , Strangers to war and hazardous emprize , And ' gainst the mighty chieftains of the land , Vain and unskill'd , a desperate conflict tries . ' Yet since assurance is not giv'n to man , Nor can ev'n kings command th ...
... renegado band , Strangers to war and hazardous emprize , And ' gainst the mighty chieftains of the land , Vain and unskill'd , a desperate conflict tries . ' Yet since assurance is not giv'n to man , Nor can ev'n kings command th ...
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... renegado Loudly shouts , with taunting cry : " Yield thee , yield thee , Don Saavedra ! Dost thou from the battle fly ? ' Well I know thee , haughty Christian , Long I liv'd beneath thy roof ; Oft I've in the lists of glory Seen thee ...
... renegado Loudly shouts , with taunting cry : " Yield thee , yield thee , Don Saavedra ! Dost thou from the battle fly ? ' Well I know thee , haughty Christian , Long I liv'd beneath thy roof ; Oft I've in the lists of glory Seen thee ...
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... renegado Mute and lifeless on the ground . With a thousand Moors surrounded , Brave Saavedra stands at bay : Wearied out , but never daunted , Cold at length the warrior lay . Near him fighting , great Alonzo Stout resists the paynim ...
... renegado Mute and lifeless on the ground . With a thousand Moors surrounded , Brave Saavedra stands at bay : Wearied out , but never daunted , Cold at length the warrior lay . Near him fighting , great Alonzo Stout resists the paynim ...
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