Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... Heaven ? - " But , ah ! Alice Lee - so sweet , so gentle , so conde- scending in thy loveliness- [ thus proceeds a contem- porary annalist , whose manuscript we have deci- phered ] -why is my story to turn upon thy fallen for- tunes ...
... Heaven ? - " But , ah ! Alice Lee - so sweet , so gentle , so conde- scending in thy loveliness- [ thus proceeds a contem- porary annalist , whose manuscript we have deci- phered ] -why is my story to turn upon thy fallen for- tunes ...
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... ordinary person ; her ordinances , dry bran and sap- less pottage , unfitted for the spiritualized palates of the saints , and the prayer , an address to Heaven , to which each acceded or not , as in his too 8 WOODSTOCK .
... ordinary person ; her ordinances , dry bran and sap- less pottage , unfitted for the spiritualized palates of the saints , and the prayer , an address to Heaven , to which each acceded or not , as in his too 8 WOODSTOCK .
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... heaven , and there is no light in England that shall come nigh unto it . " Here the military part of the congregation raised a hum of approbation , which being a sound like the " hear , hear , " of the British House of Commons , was ...
... heaven , and there is no light in England that shall come nigh unto it . " Here the military part of the congregation raised a hum of approbation , which being a sound like the " hear , hear , " of the British House of Commons , was ...
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... Heaven I can follow good counsel , though old Nick gives it . And so , friend , touching these same Commisioners , bear them this message ; that Sir Henry Lee is keeper of Wood- stock Park , with right of waif and stray , vert and ...
... Heaven I can follow good counsel , though old Nick gives it . And so , friend , touching these same Commisioners , bear them this message ; that Sir Henry Lee is keeper of Wood- stock Park , with right of waif and stray , vert and ...
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... Heaven in this to punish the pride , éver the fault of our house . - Friend , " he continued , addressing the soldier , " thou hast given the finish- ing - touch to a lesson , which ten years of constant misfortune have been unable ...
... Heaven in this to punish the pride , éver the fault of our house . - Friend , " he continued , addressing the soldier , " thou hast given the finish- ing - touch to a lesson , which ten years of constant misfortune have been unable ...
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