Calavar: Or The Knight of the Conquest ; a Romance of Mexico |
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Abdalla admiral Almogavar Alpujarras Alvarado Amador de Leste armour arms army art thou Baltasar barbarians beheld Biscayan blood Botello cannon causeway cavalier Cholula Christian command countenance cried Cortes death desert Don Amador Don Gabriel Don Hernan dost thou doubtless enemy exclaimed eyes Fabueno faith fate father fear fell foes follow fury Granada hand hath heard heart heaven Hernan Cortes hidalgo honour horse infidel instantly Jacinto king kinsman knave knight of Rhodes lake land Lazaro Leila look lord master Mexicans Mexico Mexitli Montezuma Moor Moorish Morisco Morla mountain Narvaez neophyte noble novice numbers pagan palace perceived pyramid remember rushed savages seemed señor shouts side soldiers Spaniards speak spear steed stood struck sword temple Tenochtitlan thee thine thou art thou hast thou wert thou wilt thought thyself tion Tlascalans Tlatoani valiant visage voice Wall of Serpents words wounded youth Zayda Zegri Zempoala
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Page 278 - And should I at your harmless innocence Melt, as I do, yet public reason just, Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damn'd, I should abhor.
Page 272 - ... to heaven." While the cavalier was yet speaking, there came from the van of the army, very far in the distance, a shout of joy, that was caught up by those who toiled in his neighbourhood, and continued by the squadrons that brought up the rear, until finally lost among the echoes of remote cliffs. He pressed forward with the animation shared by his companions, and, still leading Jacinto, arrived, at last, at a place where the mountain dipped downwards with so sudden and so precipitous a declivity,...
Page 272 - Sweet sleep be with us, one and all ! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brain, We'll have our pleasure o'er again, To warm the heart, to charm the sight, Gay dreams to all ! good night, good night.
Page 454 - ... limbs writhed about in the agony, his eyes, dilating with each struggle, were fixed with a stony and basilisk glare upon those of Cortes ; and thus, his gaze fixed to the last on his destroyer, — he expired. When the neophyte beheld the last quiver cease in the body, and knew by the loud wail of the Mexicans, that Montezuma was no more, he looked round for Don Hernan ; but the general had stolen from the apartment. — The visage of Cortes revealed not the workings of his mind; but his heart...
Page 453 - I gather on me the armour of a general, and drive the Teuctli from my kingdom. Ho, then, what ho ! Cuitlahuatzin ! and thou, son of my brother, Quauhtimotzin ! that are greater in war than the sons of my body, get ye forth your armies, and sound the horns of battle ! Call upon the gods, and smite ! on Mexitli the terrible, on Painalton the swift ! call them, that they may see ye strike, and behold your valour ! Call them, for Montezuma will fight at your side, and they shall know that he is valiant...
Page 451 - Teuctli depart," were some of the words which Don Amador caught, as rendered by the lips of Marina : "before he came, I was a king in Mexico. — But the son of the gods," he went on, with a hoarse and rattling laugh, " shall find that there are gods in Mexico, who shall devour the betrayer ! They roar in the heavens, they thunder among the mountains...
Page 1 - It was written with a view of illustrating one of the most romantic and poetical chapters in the history of the New World, and with the hope of calling the attention of Americans to a portion of the continent, which it required little political forecast to perceive must, before many years, assume a new and particular interest to the United States. It is written with the strictest historical accuracy compatible with the requisitions of romance.