Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... 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 calculated to heighten the ...
... 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 calculated to heighten the ...
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... light suddenly on a Maypole , with all the blithe morris - dancers prancing around it to the merry pipe and tabor , with bells jingling , ribbons fluttering , lads frisking , and laughing lasses leaping till you might see where the ...
... light suddenly on a Maypole , with all the blithe morris - dancers prancing around it to the merry pipe and tabor , with bells jingling , ribbons fluttering , lads frisking , and laughing lasses leaping till you might see where the ...
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... light - blue hose , I think some feeling , resembling either natural sociality , or old use and wont , would get the better , friend , even of thy gravity , and thou would'st fling thy cuckoldy steeple - hat one way , and that blood ...
... light - blue hose , I think some feeling , resembling either natural sociality , or old use and wont , would get the better , friend , even of thy gravity , and thou would'st fling thy cuckoldy steeple - hat one way , and that blood ...
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... lights . " " We will to the apartments of your knight , then , " said the Independent . " Is there fitting accommodation there ? " " Such as has served a person of condition , whose lodg- ing is now worse appointed , " answered the ...
... lights . " " We will to the apartments of your knight , then , " said the Independent . " Is there fitting accommodation there ? " " Such as has served a person of condition , whose lodg- ing is now worse appointed , " answered the ...
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... trot , so as best to accommodate himself to the light pace of her whom he convoyed , whom Joceline had not extolled for her activity without due reason . While Phoebe and her guardian thread the forest glades , 56 WOODSTOCK .
... trot , so as best to accommodate himself to the light pace of her whom he convoyed , whom Joceline had not extolled for her activity without due reason . While Phoebe and her guardian thread the forest glades , 56 WOODSTOCK .
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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...