Burlesques
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ISBN13: 9780217451475
Paperback|9780217451475
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: retrieved their defeat at Alarcos, and absolutely killed half a million of Mahometans. Fifty thousand of these, of course, Don Wilfrid took to hia own lance; and it was remarked that the melancholy warrior seemed somewhat more easy in spirits after that famous feat of arms. CHAPTER VIL THE END OF THE PEBFOB5IANCE. In a short time the terrible Sir Wilfrid of Ivauhoe, had killed off so many of the Moors, that though those unbelieving miscreants poured continual reinforcements into Spain from Barbary, they could make no head against the Christian forces, aud in fact came into battle quite discouraged at the notion of meeting the dreadful silent knight. It was commonly believed amongst them, that the famous Malek Eic, Eichard of England, the conqueror of Saladin, had come to life again, and was battling in the Spanish hosts?that this his second life was a charmed one, aud his body inaccessible to blow of scimetar or thrust of spear? that after battle he ate the hearts and drank the blood of many young Moors for his supper; a thousand wild legends were told of Ivanhoe, indeed, so that the Morisco warriors came half vanquished into the field, and fell an easy prey to the Spaniards, who cut away among them without mercy. And although none of the Spanish historians whom I have consulted make mention of Sir Wilfrid as the real author of the numerous triumphs which now graced the arms of the good cause; this is not in the least to be wondered at in a nation that has always been notorious for bragging, and for the non-payment of their debts of gratitude as of their other obligations, and that writes histories of the Peninsular war with the Emperor Napoleon, without making the slightest mention of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, or of the part taken by British Yalottr in that tra...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217451475 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217451470 |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.23 In |
| List Price | $15.51 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 98 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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