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... play Cromwell in the plantation , by turning the burgesses out of their hall , and whose sedition hath still something to do with my story . However peaceable , therefore , the Lord Pro- prietary might incline to be , he could not but ...
... play Cromwell in the plantation , by turning the burgesses out of their hall , and whose sedition hath still something to do with my story . However peaceable , therefore , the Lord Pro- prietary might incline to be , he could not but ...
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... played upon his strongly marked features , expressed in characters that could not be misread , that love of companionship which had been , perhaps , the most frequent shoal upon which his hopes in life had been stranded . His crown was ...
... played upon his strongly marked features , expressed in characters that could not be misread , that love of companionship which had been , perhaps , the most frequent shoal upon which his hopes in life had been stranded . His crown was ...
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... play to good living than his father allowed of . You remember his Lordship's father set his face against wines and strong waters . " " He did , gentlemen , " said Weasel , squaring himself in his seat with animation . " Heaven forbid I ...
... play to good living than his father allowed of . You remember his Lordship's father set his face against wines and strong waters . " " He did , gentlemen , " said Weasel , squaring himself in his seat with animation . " Heaven forbid I ...
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... played upon the features of the old forester as he resumed his shaggy cap , and said , “ Lord Charles is good ; but he does not remember that the head of an old ranger gets his blossoms like the dog - wood , —in the wind 38 ROB OF THE ...
... played upon the features of the old forester as he resumed his shaggy cap , and said , “ Lord Charles is good ; but he does not remember that the head of an old ranger gets his blossoms like the dog - wood , —in the wind 38 ROB OF THE ...
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... , was that the collectorship had already been singled out as a prize to be played for by that faction which had created the late disturbances 3 ROB OF THE BOWL . 49 use its own phrase-of his Majesty's Protestant subjects ...
... , was that the collectorship had already been singled out as a prize to be played for by that faction which had created the late disturbances 3 ROB OF THE BOWL . 49 use its own phrase-of his Majesty's Protestant subjects ...
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Albert Verheyden Alice amongst Anthony Warden Arnold beach Black House Blanche Warden boat brigantine brought brow Captain Dauntrees Chiseldine cloak Collector Colonel Talbot companions comrades Coode council creek Cripple Crow and Archer dame dance devil Dickon Doctor door ejaculated Escalfador exclaimed Father Pierre favor Fendall friends Garret Weasel gave give hand hath head heard heart honor horse hour Iago Inigoe's Isle of Kent Jerome's John Coode la Grange Lady Maria laugh leave light look Lord Baltimore Lordship maiden Mary's Mary's river Master Albert Master Cocklescraft Master Rob Master Verheyden merry Mistress Blanche never night Olive Branch Pamesack party port priest Proprietary province publican quarrel replied river Rose Croft scarce Secretary seen shore skipper speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 7 - Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall; And trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land.
Page 321 - Tobacco's a Musician, And in a pipe delighteth ; It descends in a close, Through the organs of the nose, With a relish that inviteth.
Page 122 - Going to the Wars TELL me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True; a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.
Page 230 - A Ranger, lady, winds his horn, And 'tis at peep of light; His blast is heard at merry morn, And mine at dead of night.
Page 70 - She wore a frock of frolic green, Might well become a maiden queen, Which seemly was to see: A hood to that so neat and fine In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 63 - An old song, made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate, That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate, And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate...
Page 327 - Much victuals serves for gluttony, to fatten men like swine, ' But he's a frugal man indeed that with a leaf can dine, ' And needs no napkins for his hands his finger's ends to wipe, ' But keeps his kitchen in a box, and roast meat in a pipe.
Page 63 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repel the foaming flood.
Page 14 - Furthermore, Kennedy described the roof as having been "capped by a wooden balustraded parapet, terminating, at each extremity, in a scroll like the head of a violin, and, in the middle, sustaining an entablature that rose to a summit on which was mounted a weathercock.
Page 361 - She turned her right and round about, And she swore by the moon ; I would not be your love, says she, For all the gold in Rome.