A grand opera ... entitled The crusaders. Words1846 |
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ALMEA AMAURY anguish they impress ARCHBISHOP OF TYRE Assassins Bart Behold beloved Beneath that ensign BLOOMSBURY SQUARE bosom Bridal charms Chiefs Chieftains Christian Army Conrade Count de Toulouse Count of Champagne cross in hand curtain danger death deceived distress Far let DUET ensign take enters exeunt faith fear FEDAVIS feel forgive Godfrey of Bouillon greater bliss grief hath hear heard Heaven hither holy hope illustrious impress Can never Infidel ISMAEL Jerusalem upon ye joy the soul King of Jerusalem Kings must perish Knights let me fly LORD love to bind loved the dearest MOUNTAIN MUSSULMEN ne'er noble Iseult o'er plant its emblem poignard Portrait Prince rush sacred SANSERRE scenes Seize Sire soul we love Speak subjects bleed Sumnite girls Tarentum tent thee thine thou throne Torquato Tasso vizor vows warrior Weapons and hearts William of Tyre words young girls
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Page 30 - Discovering the city afar off, it was a pretty sight to behold the harmony in the difference of expressing their joy ; how they clothed the same passion with divers gestures, some prostrate, some kneeling, some weeping, all had much ado to manage so great a gladness.
Page 4 - By working on the exciteable imaginations of an illiterate and fanatical race, the lords of this extraordinary tribe had obtained over them an influence unknown to any other power which was ever brought to sway the mind of man. The will of the Old Man of the Mountains was absolute law to each of his subjects. Whatever were his commands, whether to slay themselves or another, they asked no questions — paused not to consider of justice or injustice — but obeyed ; and when sent to execute the will...
Page 4 - ... of each individual in the hands of their remorseless monarch. Nothing could turn them aside from the pursuit ; no difficulties were too great for them to surmount ; and when they had struck the victim, if they escaped, it was well ; but if they were taken, they met torture and death with stoical firmness, feeling certain of the joys of Paradise as a compensation for their sufferings. The number of this tribe, was about sixty thousand, all conscientious murderers, whom no danger would daunt, and...
Page 3 - Mountain," who had acquired such an ascendency over his fanatical subjects, that they paid the most implicit deference to his commands ; esteemed assassination meritorious, when sanctioned by his mandate ; courted danger, and even certain death, in the execution of his orders ; and fancied that, when they sacrificed their lives for his sake, the highest joys of paradise were the infallible reward of their devoted obedience. It was the custom of this prince, when he imagined...
Page 4 - ... obtained the name of Assassins, from the small dagger which was their only weapon, and which was called hassassin. Their religion was a corrupted species of Islamism, and their government a fanatical despotism. Their chief was called sometimes the Ancient, sometimes the Lord of the Mountains, and among the Christians he obtained the name of the Old Man of the Mountains.