Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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... speak it truly -than was due even to the relationship betwixt you ? Why think I would sacrifice to that young man my duty to you ? Know , that were I capable of such criminal weakness , Markham Everard were the first to despise me for ...
... speak it truly -than was due even to the relationship betwixt you ? Why think I would sacrifice to that young man my duty to you ? Know , that were I capable of such criminal weakness , Markham Everard were the first to despise me for ...
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... speak civil of the Martyr in my presence , or I will do a deed misbecoming of me on that caitiff corpse of thine . " - And shaking his daughter from his right arm , the old man laid his hand on his rapier . His antagonist , on the ...
... speak civil of the Martyr in my presence , or I will do a deed misbecoming of me on that caitiff corpse of thine . " - And shaking his daughter from his right arm , the old man laid his hand on his rapier . His antagonist , on the ...
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... speaking truly , but thy fel- low - worm ? " Sir Henry Lee remained still confused , and una- ble to answer , when there arrived a fourth person , whom the cries of Alice had summoned to the spot . This was Joceline Joliffe , one of the ...
... speaking truly , but thy fel- low - worm ? " Sir Henry Lee remained still confused , and una- ble to answer , when there arrived a fourth person , whom the cries of Alice had summoned to the spot . This was Joceline Joliffe , one of the ...
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... speak it out , man . ' Tis true I took thee up when thou wert but a ragged Robin , made a keeper of thee , and so forth . - What of that ? Sailors think no longer of the wind than when it forwards them on the voy- age - thy betters turn ...
... speak it out , man . ' Tis true I took thee up when thou wert but a ragged Robin , made a keeper of thee , and so forth . - What of that ? Sailors think no longer of the wind than when it forwards them on the voy- age - thy betters turn ...
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... speak . — Legend of Captain Jones . " JOSEPH TOMKINS and Joliffe the keeper remained for some time in silence , as they stood together look- ing along the path in which the figures of the Knight of Ditchley and pretty Mistress Alice had ...
... speak . — Legend of Captain Jones . " JOSEPH TOMKINS and Joliffe the keeper remained for some time in silence , as they stood together look- ing along the path in which the figures of the Knight of Ditchley and pretty Mistress Alice had ...
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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...