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... chapel devoted to St. Ignatius , the patron of the province , in humble and unostentatious guise , occupied , with its appurtenances , a few acres in the centre of the plain , a short B 3 ROB OF THE BOWL . 9 The State House looked ...
... chapel devoted to St. Ignatius , the patron of the province , in humble and unostentatious guise , occupied , with its appurtenances , a few acres in the centre of the plain , a short B 3 ROB OF THE BOWL . 9 The State House looked ...
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... chapel surmounted by a cross , and , on the other , in a building of similar size but of different figure , which was designed and sometimes used as a banqueting room . The impression produced on the ob- server by this orderly though ...
... chapel surmounted by a cross , and , on the other , in a building of similar size but of different figure , which was designed and sometimes used as a banqueting room . The impression produced on the ob- server by this orderly though ...
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... Chapel . It stands hard by the hut of the Crip- ple . By my faith , he who wanders there at nightfall had need of a clear shrift . " - " You give credence to these idle tales ? " " No idle tales , an please your Lordship . Some of these ...
... Chapel . It stands hard by the hut of the Crip- ple . By my faith , he who wanders there at nightfall had need of a clear shrift . " - " You give credence to these idle tales ? " " No idle tales , an please your Lordship . Some of these ...
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... Chapel , that looked across the beach , were lighted up with such a light as I have never seen from candle or fagot . And there were antic figures passing the blaze that seemed deep in some hellish carouse . We kept our course , until ...
... Chapel , that looked across the beach , were lighted up with such a light as I have never seen from candle or fagot . And there were antic figures passing the blaze that seemed deep in some hellish carouse . We kept our course , until ...
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... not far from the Wizard's Chapel , which put us to tel- ling stories to each other about Paul Kelpy and the ghosts that people said haunted his house . " " The aqua vitæ made you talkative as well as ROB OF THE BOWL . 69.
... not far from the Wizard's Chapel , which put us to tel- ling stories to each other about Paul Kelpy and the ghosts that people said haunted his house . " " The aqua vitæ made you talkative as well as ROB OF THE BOWL . 69.
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Page 23 - 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 3 - And desolation saddens all thy green : One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 3 - 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 227 - She turned her right and round about, And she swore by the mold, " I would not be your love," said she, " For that church full of gold.
Page 146 - 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 112 - He scant had twenty seen. But who the countless charms can draw, That grac'd his mistress true ; Such charms the old world seldom saw, Nor oft I ween the new. Her raven hair plays round her neck, Like tendrils of the vine ; Her cheeks red dewy rose buds deck, Her eyes like diamonds shine.
Page 248 - 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 112 - 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 126 - Which seemly was to see: A hood to that so neat and fine In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously. Her...
Page 248 - I list no more the tuck of drum, No more the trumpet hear ; But when the beetle sounds his hum My comrades take the spear.