The History of the Crusades: For the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land, Volumen2

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822
 

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Página 380 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob, and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy...
Página 297 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página i - To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
Página 337 - The lawfulness and justice of the holy wars have been much disputed; but perhaps there is a principle on which the question may be easily determined. If it be part of the religion of the Mahometans, to extirpate by the sword all other religions, it is, by the...
Página 94 - At this time the spring-tide of their mirth so drowned their souls, that the Turks coming in upon them, cut every one of their throats, to the number of twenty thousand : and quickly they were stabbed with the sword that were cup-shot before. A day which the Dutch...
Página 8 - ... that I have seen, was undermined and blown up with gunpowder. The stone thereof was employed in building of the Lord Protector's house at the Strand.
Página 396 - Here am I left, their paltry gold to save ! Sad fate is mine, but worse their crime attends ; Their lord will die ; their conscience shall remain, To tell how long I wore this galling chain.
Página 407 - I read thee right — thou boldest good, To this same land I straight should hie, And win it back with mickle blood, Nor gain one foot of soil thereby. While here, dejected and forlorn, My wife and babes are left to mourn ; My goodly mansion rudely marr'd, All trusted to my dogs to guard ? But I, fair comrade, well I wot, An ancient saw, of pregnant wit, Doth bid us ' keep what we have got ;' And, troth, I mean to follow it.
Página 353 - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Página 63 - Philip Augustus. The army continued its march towards Jerusalem, and encamped in the valley of Hebron. The generals and soldiers vowed that they would not quit Palestine without having redeemed the sepulchre. Every thing wore the face of joy when this resolution was adopted ; Richard participated in the feeling, and although he thought that his presence in England...

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