Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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... pleasure of the joke itself , was the pretty frequent appendage to the scholar's pig- tail of some sort of rubbish that could not be safely pronounced either ornamental or useful . Hetty Chervil's situation in the Colyton fa- mily now ...
... pleasure of the joke itself , was the pretty frequent appendage to the scholar's pig- tail of some sort of rubbish that could not be safely pronounced either ornamental or useful . Hetty Chervil's situation in the Colyton fa- mily now ...
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... pleasant inoffensive companion , but an excellent classical scholar , with whom he could tag verses , and interchange Latin quotations to his heart's content . Poor , however , and feeble was the pleasure experienced 14 WALTER COLYTON .
... pleasant inoffensive companion , but an excellent classical scholar , with whom he could tag verses , and interchange Latin quotations to his heart's content . Poor , however , and feeble was the pleasure experienced 14 WALTER COLYTON .
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A Tale of 1688 Horace Smith. Poor , however , and feeble was the pleasure experienced by either of these parties compared to the ardour , the ecstasy with which the enthu- siastic Edith quickly attached herself to Agatha Shelton , whom ...
A Tale of 1688 Horace Smith. Poor , however , and feeble was the pleasure experienced by either of these parties compared to the ardour , the ecstasy with which the enthu- siastic Edith quickly attached herself to Agatha Shelton , whom ...
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... pleasure , for which he was at all times ready , he would hardly have thought of accompanying his own family on a visit to the Sheltons , but that , in conjunction with comical Kit , he had projected a notable scheme for amusing himself ...
... pleasure , for which he was at all times ready , he would hardly have thought of accompanying his own family on a visit to the Sheltons , but that , in conjunction with comical Kit , he had projected a notable scheme for amusing himself ...
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... pleasures of society , you will not perhaps have been a loser by your visit to Hales Court ; and to prove to you that I do not boast in vain , I shall be happy to accompany you ... pleasure I derive from the sylvan and 36 WALTER COLYTON .
... pleasures of society , you will not perhaps have been a loser by your visit to Hales Court ; and to prove to you that I do not boast in vain , I shall be happy to accompany you ... pleasure I derive from the sylvan and 36 WALTER COLYTON .
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Agatha and Edith Audley auver beauty bosom Bridgwater brother Captain Colyton Catherine Sedley Catholic cher Chervil claret companion conceal Countess of Dorchester cried the Squire danger daughter dear declared delight derland dragoons Dumpling duty dwon't ejaculated escape exclaimed eyes Father Bartholomew favour feelings fortune gennelman Goathurst Hales Court hand head heart Heaven Hetty honour hope horse inmate instantly Jaspar Colyton King King's kinsman lady Lady Sunderland letter listen look Lord Sunderland Lordship Madam Madge Majesty Mapletoft ment merry mind Miss Edy Miss Shelton mistress Morlay nature never occasion on't Orchard Place parties perhaps perilous pleasure Popish plot present priest Protestant recollect Seagrave Sedley seemed Sir Charles Sir Charles Sedley soldier soon sooner sparticles Stanley Forester stranger sure tell thee thic thing thought tion traitor Tummas Tynte uttered Walter Watchet wish young zome
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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.
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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...
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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...