Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... answer me . Hunger ye still after the flesh - pots of the monks of Godstow ? and ye will say , Nay ; -but wherefore , except that the pots are cracked and broken , and the fire is extinguished wherewith thy oven used to boil ? And again ...
... answer me . Hunger ye still after the flesh - pots of the monks of Godstow ? and ye will say , Nay ; -but wherefore , except that the pots are cracked and broken , and the fire is extinguished wherewith thy oven used to boil ? And again ...
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... answered her father in a trembling and submissive tone . " I only meant to say , sir , that I am well assured that my uncle Everard , when we quit this place ” " That is to say , when we are kicked out of it by crop - eared canting ...
... answered her father in a trembling and submissive tone . " I only meant to say , sir , that I am well assured that my uncle Everard , when we quit this place ” " That is to say , when we are kicked out of it by crop - eared canting ...
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... answered Alice , with more spirit than she had hitherto displayed ; " and would you but question your own heart ... answer you ? Hear me but one patient word , and I shall have discharged my uncle Eve- rard's commission . " " Oh , it is ...
... answered Alice , with more spirit than she had hitherto displayed ; " and would you but question your own heart ... answer you ? Hear me but one patient word , and I shall have discharged my uncle Eve- rard's commission . " " Oh , it is ...
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... answered Sir Henry Lee , in a tone of suppressed anger ; " for , by the blessed rood , thou hast well nigh led me into the heresy of thinking thee no daughter of mine . - Ah ! my beloved companion , who art now far from the sorrows and ...
... answered Sir Henry Lee , in a tone of suppressed anger ; " for , by the blessed rood , thou hast well nigh led me into the heresy of thinking thee no daughter of mine . - Ah ! my beloved companion , who art now far from the sorrows and ...
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... answered the old cava- lier , " thou word'st me , as Will Shakspeare says- thou speakest of lending me thy arm : but thy secret thought is thyself to hang upon Markham Everard's . " My father , my father , " answered Alice , in a tone ...
... answered the old cava- lier , " thou word'st me , as Will Shakspeare says- thou speakest of lending me thy arm : but thy secret thought is thyself to hang upon Markham Everard's . " My father , my father , " answered Alice , in a tone ...
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Page 106 - ... speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been long since said by the historian that a collection of the Protector's speeches would make, with a few exceptions, the most nonsensical book in the world; but he ought to have added that nothing could be more nervous, concise, and intelligible than what he really intended should be understood. It was also remarked of Cromwell that, though born of a good family, both by father and mother, and although he had the usual opportunities of education...