Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pages |
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... cause ; for at the words of the youthful chief , every weapon was returned to the sheath or the girdle , and many of the company applied themselves to couple up the bloodhounds , to drag the carcass of the hart royal from the stream ...
... cause ; for at the words of the youthful chief , every weapon was returned to the sheath or the girdle , and many of the company applied themselves to couple up the bloodhounds , to drag the carcass of the hart royal from the stream ...
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... cause , " as the pious editor remarked ; the outbreaks of the mutineers in Oxford- shire and Wiltshire ; and of the vigorous suppression of the rebellion , and the execution of the ringleaders at Basford , by the merciless vigor of ...
... cause , " as the pious editor remarked ; the outbreaks of the mutineers in Oxford- shire and Wiltshire ; and of the vigorous suppression of the rebellion , and the execution of the ringleaders at Basford , by the merciless vigor of ...
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... cause which thou now callest thine . Thine eye is enkindled even now with the wolfish - blood- thirst of the Puritan gladiator ; thy voice exulteth as thou wert enraptured at the success of the savage , Independent Jones- How , then ...
... cause which thou now callest thine . Thine eye is enkindled even now with the wolfish - blood- thirst of the Puritan gladiator ; thy voice exulteth as thou wert enraptured at the success of the savage , Independent Jones- How , then ...
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... caused the bystanders - even those who knew the place- to over - estimate the time , and perhaps the peril . Within a minute , however , a wild , cheery shout was raised on the other verge , announcing the safe landing of the hardy ...
... caused the bystanders - even those who knew the place- to over - estimate the time , and perhaps the peril . Within a minute , however , a wild , cheery shout was raised on the other verge , announcing the safe landing of the hardy ...
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... cause for alarm , though much for watchfulness , much for suspicion . Whither do your doubts point , my lord ? -for sure I am that they point to something tangible . " " Not very tangible , good friend . Yet I will tell you . He was ...
... cause for alarm , though much for watchfulness , much for suspicion . Whither do your doubts point , my lord ? -for sure I am that they point to something tangible . " " Not very tangible , good friend . Yet I will tell you . He was ...
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Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2016 |
Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 94 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
Page 95 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Page 41 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 137 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Page 137 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Page 26 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep,* And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,* The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 137 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind...