Woodstock, Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2A. Constable and Company, 1826 - 370 pages |
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Page 68
... mind of the visionary ; -that bloody napkin , always pressed to the side , was then a circumstance present either to his bodily eye , or to that of his agitated imagination . Did , then , the murdered revisit the living haunts of those ...
... mind of the visionary ; -that bloody napkin , always pressed to the side , was then a circumstance present either to his bodily eye , or to that of his agitated imagination . Did , then , the murdered revisit the living haunts of those ...
Page 69
... mind the various traditions of Victor Lee's cham- ber , which , though he had often despised them as vague , unauthenticated , and inconsistent ru- mours , engendered by ancient superstition , and transmitted from generation to ...
... mind the various traditions of Victor Lee's cham- ber , which , though he had often despised them as vague , unauthenticated , and inconsistent ru- mours , engendered by ancient superstition , and transmitted from generation to ...
Page 73
... mind did not permit him to be so passive . The sounds approached so nigh , that it seemed they were performing , in the very next apartment , a solemn service for the dead , when he gave the alarm , by calling loudly to his trusty ...
... mind did not permit him to be so passive . The sounds approached so nigh , that it seemed they were performing , in the very next apartment , a solemn service for the dead , when he gave the alarm , by calling loudly to his trusty ...
Page 79
... mind were expressed in words that seemed half addressed to the ancient portrait . " Soul of my mother's ancestor , " he said , " be it for weal or for woe , by designing men , or by supernatural beings , that these ancient halls are ...
... mind were expressed in words that seemed half addressed to the ancient portrait . " Soul of my mother's ancestor , " he said , " be it for weal or for woe , by designing men , or by supernatural beings , that these ancient halls are ...
Page 81
... mind was occupied otherwise , " said Eve- " Well , " said Wildrake , " but what has hap- pened ? -Here am I bolt upright , and ready to fight , if this yawning fit will give me leave - Mo- ther Redcap's mightiest is weaker than I drank ...
... mind was occupied otherwise , " said Eve- " Well , " said Wildrake , " but what has hap- pened ? -Here am I bolt upright , and ready to fight , if this yawning fit will give me leave - Mo- ther Redcap's mightiest is weaker than I drank ...
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