Dame Rebecca Berry, or, Court scenes in the reign of Charles the second [by E.I. Spence].Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1827 - 895 pages |
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... eyes sparkled with gladness , and her black hair turned into a thousand fantastic curls over her face and neck . The pretty lisping dialogue , full of innocent mirth , flowed in such a soft dulcet voice , as engaging as it was ...
... eyes sparkled with gladness , and her black hair turned into a thousand fantastic curls over her face and neck . The pretty lisping dialogue , full of innocent mirth , flowed in such a soft dulcet voice , as engaging as it was ...
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... eyes upon her , the exact date of her daughter Rebecca's birth . Dame Russell immediately brought out of a press the large family bible , and spreading it open on the table before the knight , turned to the leaf , and pointing her DAME ...
... eyes upon her , the exact date of her daughter Rebecca's birth . Dame Russell immediately brought out of a press the large family bible , and spreading it open on the table before the knight , turned to the leaf , and pointing her DAME ...
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... eyes . He started from his seat , and putting his hand to his forehead , exclaimed , " Then the stars have rightly predicted ; " at the some moment rushing abruptly out of the house , and mounting his steed , flew along the road with ...
... eyes . He started from his seat , and putting his hand to his forehead , exclaimed , " Then the stars have rightly predicted ; " at the some moment rushing abruptly out of the house , and mounting his steed , flew along the road with ...
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... the door , which gently and timidly she had opened , watched him for some minutes ; when Sir Ambrose suddenly looked up , and , with scowling brow , and eyes that shot fire , met the ardent gaze of 20 DAME REBECCA BERRY .
... the door , which gently and timidly she had opened , watched him for some minutes ; when Sir Ambrose suddenly looked up , and , with scowling brow , and eyes that shot fire , met the ardent gaze of 20 DAME REBECCA BERRY .
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... eyes , with a profusion of light curling hair , rendered her a most attractive creature . There was a pensive melancholy in her air , which , for so young a person , threw an interest into her appearance , that excited amongst the ...
... eyes , with a profusion of light curling hair , rendered her a most attractive creature . There was a pensive melancholy in her air , which , for so young a person , threw an interest into her appearance , that excited amongst the ...
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Page 187 - PRISON WHEN love with unconfined wings ' Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair, And fetter'd to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty. When flowing cups run swiftly round With no allaying Thames, Our careless heads with roses crown'd, Our hearts with loyal flames...
Page 204 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 196 - Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 188 - Enlarged winds, that curl the flood, Know no such liberty. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love And in my soul am free, Angels alone, that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Page 206 - He was the finest gentleman in the voluptuous court of Charles the Second, and in the gloomy one of King William. He had as much wit as his first master, or his contemporaries, Buckingham and Rochester ; without the royal want of feeling, the Duke's want of principles, or the Earl's want of thought.
Page 196 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 5 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Page 117 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 119 - I'll make you fast it for your sin, I'll count your power not worth a pin: Alas, what hereby shall I win, If he gainsay me ? What if I beat the wanton boy With many a rod ? He will repay me with annoy, Because a god. Then sit thou safely on my knee, And let thy bower my bosom be, Lurk in mine eyes, I like of thee; O Cupid, so thou pity me, Spare not, but play thee.
Page 271 - Yet take the friendly counsel of my love ; Believe me true, nor listen to your jealousy. Let not that devil, which undoes your sex, That cursed curiosity seduce you, To hunt for needless secrets, which, neglected, Shall never hurt your quiet ; but once known, Shall sit upon your heart, pinch it with pain, And banish the sweet sleep for ever from you. Go to — be yet advis'd — Alic. Dost thou in scorn, Preach patience to my rage...