Roderick, the Last of the Goths, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818 |
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... knew These dearer pledges on the die were set ; And if the worst have fall'n , I shall but bear That in my breast , which , with transfiguring power Of piety , makes chastening sorrow take The form of hope , and sees , in Death , the ...
... knew These dearer pledges on the die were set ; And if the worst have fall'n , I shall but bear That in my breast , which , with transfiguring power Of piety , makes chastening sorrow take The form of hope , and sees , in Death , the ...
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... knew their Lord . Then what a shout Rung through the valley ! From their clay - built nests , Beneath the overbrowing battlements , Now first disturbed , the affrighted martins flew , And uttering notes of terror short and shrill , Amid ...
... knew their Lord . Then what a shout Rung through the valley ! From their clay - built nests , Beneath the overbrowing battlements , Now first disturbed , the affrighted martins flew , And uttering notes of terror short and shrill , Amid ...
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... knew them not . Guisla was one . The Moors had found in her A willing and concerted prisoner . Gladly to Gegio , to the renegade On whom her loose and shameless love was bent , Had she set forth ; and in her heart she cursed The busy ...
... knew them not . Guisla was one . The Moors had found in her A willing and concerted prisoner . Gladly to Gegio , to the renegade On whom her loose and shameless love was bent , Had she set forth ; and in her heart she cursed The busy ...
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... he would have asked She knew , and bending from her palfrey down , Told him that they for whom he looked were safe , And that in secret he should hear the rest . XV . How calmly gliding through the dark - blue 8 XIV . THE RESCUE .
... he would have asked She knew , and bending from her palfrey down , Told him that they for whom he looked were safe , And that in secret he should hear the rest . XV . How calmly gliding through the dark - blue 8 XIV . THE RESCUE .
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... haunts , or shepherd's boy , Following the pleasure of his straggling flock , None knew the place . Pelayo , when he saw Those glittering sources and their sacred cave , Took from his side the bugle silver - tipt , c 3 XVI . 29 COVADONGA .
... haunts , or shepherd's boy , Following the pleasure of his straggling flock , None knew the place . Pelayo , when he saw Those glittering sources and their sacred cave , Took from his side the bugle silver - tipt , c 3 XVI . 29 COVADONGA .
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Abulcacem Alonso altar amid arms Asturian battle behold Bishop blood brought Caliph Camara Santa cave Chiefs Christian church claspt cloud Count Don Julian Count Julian's Covadonga cried cross dear death deceive Deva Devil Diptyches doth dreadful earth Elder exclaimed eyes faith false Hermit father feet fell Florinda gave Goth grave grief hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven hermitage Holy Ark Holy Spirit honour hope hour King Don Rodrigo knew look Lord Maccabee manner mercy Moors mountain o'er orarium Orelio Orpas Oviedo Pelayo penance penitence Pierre de Marca pray prayers Rejoicing relics renegade replied rock Roderick Saints side sins Siverian soul Spain spake stream strength Suevi sword tears thee thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou shouldst thou wert thou wilt thought thyself Toledo vale vengeance victory voice ween Witiza