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... observe the doings there . Look that you keep your own counsel : we have enemies of flesh and blood that may be more dreaded than these phantoms . So , God speed you friends ! " " The man who purges the Black House of the fiend , so ...
... observe the doings there . Look that you keep your own counsel : we have enemies of flesh and blood that may be more dreaded than these phantoms . So , God speed you friends ! " " The man who purges the Black House of the fiend , so ...
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... observation the ardent character of Albert Verheyden . The deferential relation which he held to his patron threw into his demeanour a reserve expressive of humility rather than of diffidence ; but under this there breathed a ...
... observation the ardent character of Albert Verheyden . The deferential relation which he held to his patron threw into his demeanour a reserve expressive of humility rather than of diffidence ; but under this there breathed a ...
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... observation . His features were those of a man of seventy , sharp , shrewd and imprinted with a deep trace of care . His frame indicated the possession , at an earlier period of his life , of the highest degree of strength ; it was ...
... observation . His features were those of a man of seventy , sharp , shrewd and imprinted with a deep trace of care . His frame indicated the possession , at an earlier period of his life , of the highest degree of strength ; it was ...
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... attracting other notice than such as the stinted charity of the world affords , when it is exercised upon the fate or fortunes of an obscure recluse . This observation began to find a broader scope as soon as ROB OF THE BOWL . 227.
... attracting other notice than such as the stinted charity of the world affords , when it is exercised upon the fate or fortunes of an obscure recluse . This observation began to find a broader scope as soon as ROB OF THE BOWL . 227.
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John Pendleton Kennedy. observation began to find a broader scope as soon as it became obvious that the hermit was not altogether an object of almsgiving ; and the little world of this part of the province disco- vering in process of ...
John Pendleton Kennedy. observation began to find a broader scope as soon as it became obvious that the hermit was not altogether an object of almsgiving ; and the little world of this part of the province disco- vering in process of ...
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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.