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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 32
Page 4
... perhaps the worse devil of the three ! -As Will says ' I'll so maul you and your toasting - irons , That you shall think the devil has come from hell . ' ” The combatants desisted from their encoun- ter , but stood 4 WOODSTOCK .
... perhaps the worse devil of the three ! -As Will says ' I'll so maul you and your toasting - irons , That you shall think the devil has come from hell . ' ” The combatants desisted from their encoun- ter , but stood 4 WOODSTOCK .
Page 11
... who had , notwith- standing his political demerits , a warmer interest in his affections than he was , perhaps , himself aware of , said , in a tone of consolation , " Never be mortified , young gentlemen . - I protest it WOODSTOCK . 11.
... who had , notwith- standing his political demerits , a warmer interest in his affections than he was , perhaps , himself aware of , said , in a tone of consolation , " Never be mortified , young gentlemen . - I protest it WOODSTOCK . 11.
Page 13
... Perhaps the knight saw their wonder , for the first words he said after they left the ground were , " Pixie , though small , is mettlesome , gen- tlemen , " ( here he contrived that Pixie should himself corroborate the assertion , by ...
... Perhaps the knight saw their wonder , for the first words he said after they left the ground were , " Pixie , though small , is mettlesome , gen- tlemen , " ( here he contrived that Pixie should himself corroborate the assertion , by ...
Page 45
... either of virtue or morality . Those who are born to royal- ty are deprived of many of the comforts of private life - chiefly that which is , perhaps , the dearest • and most precious , the power of choosing their WOODSTOCK . 45.
... either of virtue or morality . Those who are born to royal- ty are deprived of many of the comforts of private life - chiefly that which is , perhaps , the dearest • and most precious , the power of choosing their WOODSTOCK . 45.
Page 52
... perhaps , but conscientiously - he , therefore , has still the highest place in my affection and esteem . More he cannot have , and will not ask , until some happy turn shall reconcile these public differences , and my father be once ...
... perhaps , but conscientiously - he , therefore , has still the highest place in my affection and esteem . More he cannot have , and will not ask , until some happy turn shall reconcile these public differences , and my father be once ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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...