Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... turn upon thy fallen for- tunes ? and why not rather to the period when , in the very dismounting from your palfrey , you attracted as many eyes as if an angel had descended , as many blessings as if the benignant being had come fraught ...
... turn upon thy fallen for- tunes ? and why not rather to the period when , in the very dismounting from your palfrey , you attracted as many eyes as if an angel had descended , as many blessings as if the benignant being had come fraught ...
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... turn the stream of his oratory into another channel . " But wherefore , ye people of Woodstock , do I say these ... turn his bridle our way ? ' say you in your hearts ; we will none of him ; if we may help ourselves , we will rather turn ...
... turn the stream of his oratory into another channel . " But wherefore , ye people of Woodstock , do I say these ... turn his bridle our way ? ' say you in your hearts ; we will none of him ; if we may help ourselves , we will rather turn ...
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... through the streets of Woodstock , with the air of a stranger who was viewing the town , without seeming to ob- serve that he was himself in his turn anxiously sur- veyed by the citizens , whose furtive yet frequent glances WOODSTOCK . 19.
... through the streets of Woodstock , with the air of a stranger who was viewing the town , without seeming to ob- serve that he was himself in his turn anxiously sur- veyed by the citizens , whose furtive yet frequent glances WOODSTOCK . 19.
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... turning up the whites of our eyes as we turned up the bottom of the wine - pot . Old Ben adopted me as one of his sons in the muses . I have shown you , have I not , the verses ' To my much beloved son , the worshipful Sir Henry Lee of ...
... turning up the whites of our eyes as we turned up the bottom of the wine - pot . Old Ben adopted me as one of his sons in the muses . I have shown you , have I not , the verses ' To my much beloved son , the worshipful Sir Henry Lee of ...
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... turning from thine evil ways , and a returning to those which are good , if the Lord enlarge thy date for repentance and amendment , wherefore should it be shortened by a poor sinful mortal , who is , speaking truly , but thy fel- low ...
... turning from thine evil ways , and a returning to those which are good , if the Lord enlarge thy date for repentance and amendment , wherefore should it be shortened by a poor sinful mortal , who is , speaking truly , but thy fel- low ...
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