Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 3Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 93
... head , I shall be through you in a twinkling . " So saying he made a pass with his sheathed rapier , not precisely at the doctor's person , but in that direction ; when Rochecliffe , changing the direction of his cane from the broad ...
... head , I shall be through you in a twinkling . " So saying he made a pass with his sheathed rapier , not precisely at the doctor's person , but in that direction ; when Rochecliffe , changing the direction of his cane from the broad ...
Page 94
... head , like a boy caught in roguery , and went to pick up . his weapon , stretching his head , as he passed , in- to the coppice , to obtain another glimpse , if pos- sible , of the concealed object of his curiosity . Charles , in the ...
... head , like a boy caught in roguery , and went to pick up . his weapon , stretching his head , as he passed , in- to the coppice , to obtain another glimpse , if pos- sible , of the concealed object of his curiosity . Charles , in the ...
Page 96
... HEAD . " In speaking the last words , the King lowered his voice to a low and impressive whisper . Everard observing this drew back , the natural generosity of his temper directing him to avoid overhearing private discourse , in which ...
... HEAD . " In speaking the last words , the King lowered his voice to a low and impressive whisper . Everard observing this drew back , the natural generosity of his temper directing him to avoid overhearing private discourse , in which ...
Page 97
... running himself into danger . Let the Pas- sive Obedience , which is so often in your mouth , and no doubt in your head , put your feet for VOL . III . G once into motion , and step aside for ten minutes WOODSTOCK . 97.
... running himself into danger . Let the Pas- sive Obedience , which is so often in your mouth , and no doubt in your head , put your feet for VOL . III . G once into motion , and step aside for ten minutes WOODSTOCK . 97.
Page 107
... head towards her , " Farewell , Alice , at once , and for ever ! " The poor young lady , whose adventitious spi- rit had almost deserted her , attempted to repeat the word farewell , but failing in the attempt , only accomplished a ...
... head towards her , " Farewell , Alice , at once , and for ever ! " The poor young lady , whose adventitious spi- rit had almost deserted her , attempted to repeat the word farewell , but failing in the attempt , only accomplished a ...
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alarm Albert Lee Alice Lee answered better betwixt Bevis called cavalier Charles Church cloak Colonel Everard command Commonwealth of England Crom Cromwell divine Doctor Rochecliffe door Dr Rochecliffe duty escape Excellency exclaimed eyes faithful Familists father fear feelings fellow gentleman Gilbert Pearson give ground guard hand hath head hear Holdenough honour horses hour Humgudgeon instantly Joceline John Milton Joliffe King King's King's Oak Lodge look Lord Louis Kerneguy Majesty Markham Everard Master Kerneguy Master Louis means Mistress Alice neral old knight Oliver once party passion petard Phoebe Pixie poor Presbyterian present Prince prison racter rapier rard replied returned Roger Wildrake roundheaded royal scarce secret seemed Sir Henry Lee soldiers speak spirit Spitfire spoke sword tell thee thou art thou hast thought tion Tomkins tone Tredagh trust turret wench Woodstock words yonder young Zerobabel
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Page 136 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Page 25 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Page 25 - Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed 220 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err : there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove..
Page 28 - John Milton !" exclaimed Sir Henry in astonishment — "What! John Milton, the blasphemous and bloody-minded author of the Defensio Poputi Anglicanil — the advocate of the infernal High Court of Fiends; the creature and parasite of that grand impostor, that loathsome hypocrite, that detestable monster, that prodigy of the universe, that disgrace of mankind, that landscape of iniquity, that sink of sin, and that compendium of baseness, Oliver Cromwell !" " Even the same John Milton," answered Charles...
Page 234 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 351 - YEARS rush by us like the wind. We see not whence the eddy comes, nor whitherward it is tending, and we seem ourselves to witness their flight without a sense that we are changed ; and yet Time is beguiling man of his strength, as the winds rob the woods of their foliage.
Page 307 - Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers...
Page 14 - Which being tossed with the air Had force to strike his foe with fear, And turn his weapon from him. Himself he on an ear-wig set, Yet scarce he on his back could get, So oft and high he did curvet Ere he himself could settle. He made him turn, and stop, and bound, To gallop, and to trot the round; He scarce could stand on any ground, He was so full of mettle.
Page 336 - Yet what can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier...