Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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... side of the question . As he rode on , immersed in these unpleasant contemplations , and considerably lessened in his own esteem by what had happened , Wildrake , who rode by his side , and was no friend to long silence , began to enter ...
... side of the question . As he rode on , immersed in these unpleasant contemplations , and considerably lessened in his own esteem by what had happened , Wildrake , who rode by his side , and was no friend to long silence , began to enter ...
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... side . " " Gracious Heaven ! " said Wildrake , coming close up to Everard , and whispering in his ear , with accents which terror rendered tremulous , ( a mood of mind most unusual to the daring man , who seemed now overcome by it ...
... side . " " Gracious Heaven ! " said Wildrake , coming close up to Everard , and whispering in his ear , with accents which terror rendered tremulous , ( a mood of mind most unusual to the daring man , who seemed now overcome by it ...
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... side , swore a dreadful oath , and added , " Markham , you have cancelled every obligation I owed you- they are all out of sight - gone , d - n me . " " You have indeed acquitted these obligations rarely , " said Everard . " Who knows ...
... side , swore a dreadful oath , and added , " Markham , you have cancelled every obligation I owed you- they are all out of sight - gone , d - n me . " " You have indeed acquitted these obligations rarely , " said Everard . " Who knows ...
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... side ? " This last expression , in which Harrison gave a mark different from that which Everard had assigned , but corresponding to Tomkins's origi- nal description of the supposed spectre , had more effect on Everard in confirming the ...
... side ? " This last expression , in which Harrison gave a mark different from that which Everard had assigned , but corresponding to Tomkins's origi- nal description of the supposed spectre , had more effect on Everard in confirming the ...
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... side , was then a circumstance present either to his bodily eye , or to that of his agitated imagination . Did , then , the murdered revisit the living haunts of those who had forced them from the stage with all their sins unaccounted ...
... side , was then a circumstance present either to his bodily eye , or to that of his agitated imagination . Did , then , the murdered revisit the living haunts of those who had forced them from the stage with all their sins unaccounted ...
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Page 56 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch, that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 250 - Threlkeld praise ! Hear it, good man, old in days ! Thou tree of covert and of rest For this young bird that is distrest ; Among thy branches safe he lay, And he was free to sport and play. When falcons were abroad for prey.
Page 226 - Tis to him we love most, And to all who love him. Brave gallants, stand up, And avaunt, ye base carles ! Were there death in the cup, Here 'sa health to King Charles...