Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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Page 73
... Markham , ' who goes there , and for whom ? ' · ' For Church and King , ' answered a voice , which presently added , No , d - n me - I mean against Church and King , and for the people that are upper- most - I forget which they are ...
... Markham , ' who goes there , and for whom ? ' · ' For Church and King , ' answered a voice , which presently added , No , d - n me - I mean against Church and King , and for the people that are upper- most - I forget which they are ...
Page 74
... Markham - Wildgoose you should be called . You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! ' ' Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough , Mark , only out of ...
... Markham - Wildgoose you should be called . You have been moistening your own throat to some purpose , and using it to gabble tunes very suiting to the times , to be sure ! ' ' Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough , Mark , only out of ...
Page 75
... Markham - You hold me , I am sure , for your friend ? ' C True as steel . - Chums at college and at Lincoln's- Inn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous , Orestes and Pylades ; and , to sum up the whole with a ...
... Markham - You hold me , I am sure , for your friend ? ' C True as steel . - Chums at college and at Lincoln's- Inn - we have been Nisus and Euryalus , Theseus and Perithous , Orestes and Pylades ; and , to sum up the whole with a ...
Page 78
... Markham Everard . Remember I am your senior of three years standing . Confound me , if I know how to take it ! ' ' Was ever such a fantastic wronghead ? -For my sake , if not for thine own , bend thy freakish folly to listen to reason ...
... Markham Everard . Remember I am your senior of three years standing . Confound me , if I know how to take it ! ' ' Was ever such a fantastic wronghead ? -For my sake , if not for thine own , bend thy freakish folly to listen to reason ...
Page 86
... Markham Everard stern- ly ; you are not now sufficiently yourself to guide the devotion of others . ' Woe be to them that reject ! ' said the Secretary of the Commissioners , stalking out of the room - the rest was lost in shutting the ...
... Markham Everard stern- ly ; you are not now sufficiently yourself to guide the devotion of others . ' Woe be to them that reject ! ' said the Secretary of the Commissioners , stalking out of the room - the rest was lost in shutting the ...
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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...