Letters to Richard Heber, Esq. M.P.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1822 Excerpt: ...those beams again, The king drew up his charger's rein; With gauntlet raised he screen'd his sight, As dazzled with the level light, And, from beneath his glove of mail, Scann'd at his ease the lovely vale, While 'gainst the sun his armour bright, Gleam'd ruddy like the beacon's light. Bridal qf Triermain, Canto I. St. 12. Evening again found him, ' (the Black Dwarf), . 'seated on his favourite stone. The sun setting 'red, and among seas of rolling clouds, threw a gloomy lustre over the moor, and gave a deeper 'purple to the broad outline of heathy mountains 'which surrounded this desolate spot. The dwarf 'sat watching the clouds as they lowered above 'each other in masses of conglomerated vapours, 'and, as a strong lurid beam of the sinking luminary 'darted full on his solitary and uncouth figure, he 'might well have seemed the demon of the storm 'which was gathering, or some gnome summoned 'forth from the recesses of the earth by the sub'terranean signals of its approach. As he sate 'thus, with his eye turned toward the scowling 'and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly 'towards him, and stopping, as if to let his horse 'breathe for an instant, made a sort of obeisance to 'the anchoret, with an air betwixt effrontery and 'embarrassment.'--; He wore a rusted steel head'piece, a buff jacket of rather an antique cast, 'gloves, of which that for the right hand was, 'covered with small scales of iron, like an ancient 'gauntlet; and a long broad-sword completed his 'equipage.'--Black Dwarf, ch. 6. And well that Palmer's form and mien Had suited with the stormy scene, Just on the edge, straining his ken To view the bottom of the den, Where, deep, deep down, and far within, Toils with the rocks the roaring linn. Marmion, Introduction to Cant...