OR, THE NEW CRUSADE. BY B. DISRAELI, M.P. AUTHOR OF CONINGSBY," "SYBIL," ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. TANCRED: OR, THE NEW CRUSADE. BOOK V. CHAPTER I. IT has been long decreed that no poet may introduce the Phoenix. Scylla and Charybdis are both successfully avoided even by provincial rhetoric. The performance of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet omitted, and Mahomet's unhappy coffin-these are illustrations that have long been the prerogative of dolts and dullards. It is not for a moment to be tolerated that an oasis should be met with anywhere except in the desert. We sadly lack a new stock of public images. |
