Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... perhaps she expected , Joceline Joliffe cast a mournful glance towards the soldier in the oriel window , as if to make what he said fully intel- ligible , and replied with a dejected appearance and voice , " Alack , my pretty Phœbe ...
... perhaps she expected , Joceline Joliffe cast a mournful glance towards the soldier in the oriel window , as if to make what he said fully intel- ligible , and replied with a dejected appearance and voice , " Alack , my pretty Phœbe ...
Page 65
... perhaps bound to do honour as my successor in the charge of these walks , here seems to be a modest damsel , who will be most willing to wait on thee , and be thy bow - bearer - Only , for her mother's sake , let there pass some slight ...
... perhaps bound to do honour as my successor in the charge of these walks , here seems to be a modest damsel , who will be most willing to wait on thee , and be thy bow - bearer - Only , for her mother's sake , let there pass some slight ...
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... perhaps you think it loaded with too hard conditions ? ' " Shame , shame on you , Sir Henry ! ' said Everard , waxing warm in his turn ; have your political pre- judices so utterly warped every feeling of a father , that you can speak ...
... perhaps you think it loaded with too hard conditions ? ' " Shame , shame on you , Sir Henry ! ' said Everard , waxing warm in his turn ; have your political pre- judices so utterly warped every feeling of a father , that you can speak ...
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... perhaps not the most dangerous . Some one must be trusted with power to preserve and enforce general order , and who can possess or wield such power like him that is head of the victo- rious armies of England ? Come what will in future ...
... perhaps not the most dangerous . Some one must be trusted with power to preserve and enforce general order , and who can possess or wield such power like him that is head of the victo- rious armies of England ? Come what will in future ...
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... perhaps he had never in his life before experienced . His feelings as a royalist led him to detest Crom- well , whom in other circumstances he would scarce have wished to see , except in a field of battle , where he could have had the ...
... perhaps he had never in his life before experienced . His feelings as a royalist led him to detest Crom- well , whom in other circumstances he would scarce have wished to see , except in a field of battle , where he could have had 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...