The talisman

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Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London., 1825 - 368 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 235 - ... companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe — remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor — he is the friend of man, save when man justly incurs his enmity.
Sayfa 157 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace. With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Sayfa 263 - I weep not for an absent swain, for time may happier hours recall, And parted lovers meet again. " I weep not for the silent dead, Their pains are past, their sorrows o'er, And those that loved their steps must tread, When death shall join to part no more.
Sayfa 303 - seen this brand flaming in the front of battle, like that of Azrael, I had scarce believed that human arm could wield it. Might I request to see the Melech Ric strike one blow with it in peace, and in pure trial of strength ?
Sayfa 306 - ... across the cushion, applying the edge so dexterously, and with so little apparent effort, that the cushion seemed rather to fall asunder than to be divided by violence.

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