CONTENTS.

Page
Preface [ix]
Original Preface [xxi]
Roderick, the last of the Goths:
I. Roderick and Romano [1]
II. Roderick in Solitude [12]
III. Adosinda [21]
IV. The Monastery of St. Felix [35]
V. Roderick and Siverian [46]
VI. Roderick in Times past [59]
VII. Roderick and Pelayo [67]
VIII. Alphonso [74]
IX. Florinda [82]
X. Roderick and Florinda [87]
XI. Count Pedro’s Castle [101]
XII. The Vow [108]
XIII. Count Eudon [116]
XIV. The Rescue [125]
XV. Roderick at Cangas [131]
XVI. Covadonga [141]
XVII. Roderick and Siverian [152]
XVIII. The Acclamation [161]
XIX. Roderick and Rusilla [173]
XX. The Moorish Camp [178]
XXI. The Fountain in the Forest [188]
XXII. The Moorish Council [204]
XXIII. The Vale of Covadonga [212]
XXIV. Roderick and Count Julian [222]
XXV. Roderick in Battle [232]
Notes [251]

As the ample Moon,

In the deep stillness of a summer even

Rising behind a thick and lofty Grove,

Burns like an unconsuming fire of light

In the green trees; and kindling on all sides

Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil

Into a substance glorious as her own,

Yea, with her own incorporated, by power

Capacious and serene: Like power abides

In Man’s celestial Spirit; Virtue thus

Sets forth and magnifies herself: thus feeds

A calm, a beautiful and silent fire,

From the incumbrances of mortal life,

From error, disappointment, ... nay from guilt;

And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills,

From palpable oppressions of Despair.

Wordsworth.