Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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... answer it , however , his daughter - in - law re - entered with a clean cap , holding Ned's far - famed piece of writing in her newly washed hands . Mortified as she was at finding that the stranger had not come to inspect it , she ...
... answer it , however , his daughter - in - law re - entered with a clean cap , holding Ned's far - famed piece of writing in her newly washed hands . Mortified as she was at finding that the stranger had not come to inspect it , she ...
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... answer for my four - footed friend , who is as quiet as a lamb . Ha ! the big drops are pattering fast around us , we must fly to some covert . This oak is hardly leafy and tufted enough for our purpose ; yonder chesnut offers us a ...
... answer for my four - footed friend , who is as quiet as a lamb . Ha ! the big drops are pattering fast around us , we must fly to some covert . This oak is hardly leafy and tufted enough for our purpose ; yonder chesnut offers us a ...
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... answer the purpose still better , " cried Agatha ; " lift him gently into it , my good friend ; drive him over to Hales Court , for I myself should hardly have strength to prevent his falling out , and you shall be well rewarded for ...
... answer the purpose still better , " cried Agatha ; " lift him gently into it , my good friend ; drive him over to Hales Court , for I myself should hardly have strength to prevent his falling out , and you shall be well rewarded for ...
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... answer interrogatories , it became neces- sary to search his pockets ; in which they found a purse , well stored with gold , two or three trifling articles , and a pocket - book , carefully tied up , but nothing that might indicate his ...
... answer interrogatories , it became neces- sary to search his pockets ; in which they found a purse , well stored with gold , two or three trifling articles , and a pocket - book , carefully tied up , but nothing that might indicate his ...
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... answering my first question , and explaining why he did not sooner present himself in St. James's Square . " " I felt a delicacy in doing so , until the ex- pected remittance from my father enabled me to return the loan with which your ...
... answering my first question , and explaining why he did not sooner present himself in St. James's Square . " " I felt a delicacy in doing so , until the ex- pected remittance from my father enabled me to return the loan with which your ...
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Page 298 - The mysteries of Hecate, and the night; By .all the operation of the orbs, From whom we do exist, and cease to be ; Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood, And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee, from this, for ever.
Page 144 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 95 - I chuse a companion for wit and pleasure, it should be you; or for honesty to interchange my bosom with, it should be you; or wisdom to give me counsel, I would pick out you; or valour to defend my reputation, still I...
Page 30 - LET us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice, With claret and sherry, theorbo and voice! The changeable world to our joy is unjust, All treasure's uncertain, Then down with your dust! In frolics dispose your pounds, shillings, and pence, For we shall be nothing a hundred years hence.
Page 191 - That they may be avenged of them; as it is written, Such honour have all his saints.
Page 165 - That boy was a strange-found-out antidote to cure her infection; that boy, that princess' boy; that brave, chaste, virtuous lady's boy ; and a fair boy, a well-spoken boy ! All these considered, can make nothing else — but there I leave you, gentlemen.
Page 208 - The point at issue was this : The duty of man being to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself...
Page 162 - Blackball, selected to preach before the queen, enunciated the doctrine of the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience.
Page 165 - Dion. Sure, she has a garrison of devils in her tongue, she uttereth such balls of wild-fire : she has so nettled the King, that all the doctors in the country will scarce cure him. That boy was a strange-found-out antidote to cure her infection ; that boy, that princess...