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... scarce decipher . I asked for relics of the departed . The winter evening tale told by father to son , and the written legend , more durable than monument of marble , have survived to answer my question , when brick and tile , hearth ...
... scarce decipher . I asked for relics of the departed . The winter evening tale told by father to son , and the written legend , more durable than monument of marble , have survived to answer my question , when brick and tile , hearth ...
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... neither stumbled upon a gold mine , nor picked up an Indian princess with a dowry of diamonds ; but he fared scarce worse , in his own estimation , when he found himself , in a pleasant sunny clime , invested with ROB OF THE BOWL ..
... neither stumbled upon a gold mine , nor picked up an Indian princess with a dowry of diamonds ; but he fared scarce worse , in his own estimation , when he found himself , in a pleasant sunny clime , invested with ROB OF THE BOWL ..
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... scarce do yourself justice . You have his Lordship's license paid for in good round ducatoons - and that's the fee of a clear con- science . So let the trade thrive ! The exchequer is not a baby to be in swaddling bands , unable to feed ...
... scarce do yourself justice . You have his Lordship's license paid for in good round ducatoons - and that's the fee of a clear con- science . So let the trade thrive ! The exchequer is not a baby to be in swaddling bands , unable to feed ...
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... scarce in debt after this fashion , at Worcester , my valiant drawer . An evil destiny kept you empty on that day . " " Ha , ha , ha ! a shrewd memory for a stale jest , Captain Dauntrees . The world is slanderous , though I care little ...
... scarce in debt after this fashion , at Worcester , my valiant drawer . An evil destiny kept you empty on that day . " " Ha , ha , ha ! a shrewd memory for a stale jest , Captain Dauntrees . The world is slanderous , though I care little ...
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... scarce be accounted for on any pretence of witchcraft , or sorcery , although I know there are malignant influences at work in the province , which find motive enough to do all the harm they can . Has Fendall , or any of his ...
... scarce be accounted for on any pretence of witchcraft , or sorcery , although I know there are malignant influences at work in the province , which find motive enough to do all the harm they can . Has Fendall , or any of his ...
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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 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 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 smile speak spirit stood sword Talbot tell thee thou thought to-night tone town turn voice Warrington whilst whispered wife Willy worshipful yawl
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Page 9 - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain: No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way. 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 156 - 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 262 - 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 9 - Amidst thy bowers the tyrant's hand is seen, And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage...
Page 373 - It is our op'ning day. Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound by holy vow To bless a good man's store...
Page 135 - Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can ; And oft, to live a quiet life...
Page 65 - 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 177 - Fellows, to mount a bank. Did your instructor In the dear tongues, never discourse to you Of the Italian mountebanks ? Per.
Page 72 - Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 17 - Nevertheless he was wholly correct when he described the "grassy court," shut in by a "sweep of wall," in front of the Castle. "Admission," he declared, "was gained through a heavy iron gate swung between square, stuccoed pillars, each of which was surmounted by a couchant lion carved in stone."' No lions have yet come to light, but the brick footings of the courtyard enclosing wall and of the main gateway still survive solid just beneath the top soil. The portal was ten feet wide — wide enough...