Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 169
... follow me no farther than the verge of the wil- derness , and I am already too long from home : I will send some one to meet and relieve you of the pitcher . " So saying , she turned her back , with a feeling of terror which she could ...
... follow me no farther than the verge of the wil- derness , and I am already too long from home : I will send some one to meet and relieve you of the pitcher . " So saying , she turned her back , with a feeling of terror which she could ...
Page 170
... follows not , " said the stranger , " that your fortunes may not be known to me , fair Mis- tress Alice . Look on my swarthy brow - Eng- land breeds none such - and in the lands from which I come , the sun which blackens our com ...
... follows not , " said the stranger , " that your fortunes may not be known to me , fair Mis- tress Alice . Look on my swarthy brow - Eng- land breeds none such - and in the lands from which I come , the sun which blackens our com ...
Page 193
... follow such a scratch as a cat's claw might have made ! " " Nay , if you feel so courageous , " said the doctor , " I will fetch your son - he is not far dis- tant . " So saying , he left the apartment , making a sign to Alice to remain ...
... follow such a scratch as a cat's claw might have made ! " " Nay , if you feel so courageous , " said the doctor , " I will fetch your son - he is not far dis- tant . " So saying , he left the apartment , making a sign to Alice to remain ...
Page 240
... follow . This was jolly King Edward's way - Edward the Fourth , you know . The king - making Earl of War- wick - the Cromwell of his day - dethroned him more than once ; but he had the hearts of the merry dames of London , and the ...
... follow . This was jolly King Edward's way - Edward the Fourth , you know . The king - making Earl of War- wick - the Cromwell of his day - dethroned him more than once ; but he had the hearts of the merry dames of London , and the ...
Page 258
... follow my advice implicitly . You never heard that I was hanged myself . " " The time may come , doctor , " said Albert ; " The pitcher goes oft to the well - The proverb , as my father would say , is somewhat musty . But I , too , have ...
... follow my advice implicitly . You never heard that I was hanged myself . " " The time may come , doctor , " said Albert ; " The pitcher goes oft to the well - The proverb , as my father would say , is somewhat musty . But I , too , have ...
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Page 56 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch, that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Page 250 - Threlkeld praise ! Hear it, good man, old in days ! Thou tree of covert and of rest For this young bird that is distrest ; Among thy branches safe he lay, And he was free to sport and play. When falcons were abroad for prey.
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