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... Mistress Dorothy , I sus- pect , has this tardy coming to answer for . I doubt the brow of our brave dame has been cloudy this afternoon . How is it , Arnold ? bachelor , and Dutchman to boot , you will speak with- out fear . " " The ...
... Mistress Dorothy , I sus- pect , has this tardy coming to answer for . I doubt the brow of our brave dame has been cloudy this afternoon . How is it , Arnold ? bachelor , and Dutchman to boot , you will speak with- out fear . " " The ...
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... 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 . BRYAN AND ...
... 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 . BRYAN AND ...
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... Mistress Alice , a sister , the youngest of the flock , who , at the epoch at which I am about to present her , was just verging towards womanhood . The dwelling of the Collector stood upon the high bank formed by the union of St ...
... Mistress Alice , a sister , the youngest of the flock , who , at the epoch at which I am about to present her , was just verging towards womanhood . The dwelling of the Collector stood upon the high bank formed by the union of St ...
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... Mistress Alice , who had , some time before our acquaintance with her , reached that period of life at which the female ambition for display is prone to subside into a love of domestic pursuits . It was now her chief worldly care and ...
... Mistress Alice , who had , some time before our acquaintance with her , reached that period of life at which the female ambition for display is prone to subside into a love of domestic pursuits . It was now her chief worldly care and ...
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... Mistress Alice a discreet and kind friend , and the more sedate part of the population found an agreeable host in the worthy official himself . The family of the Lord Proprietary sustained the most inti- mate relations with this ...
... Mistress Alice a discreet and kind friend , and the more sedate part of the population found an agreeable host in the worthy official himself . The family of the Lord Proprietary sustained the most inti- mate relations with this ...
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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 156 - 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 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 393 - 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 135 - Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can ; And oft, to live a quiet life, I am forced to yield, though Ime goodman.
Page 70 - Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 264 - 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.
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 177 - Fellows, to mount a bank. Did your instructor In the dear tongues, never discourse to you Of the Italian mountebanks ? Per.
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 414 - They raised my heart to that pure source Whence heavenly comfort flows : They taught me to despise the world, And calmly bear its woes. No more the slave of human pride, Vain hope, and sordid care, I meekly vowed to spend my life In penitence and prayer.