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Page 102
... The billows are chased , High - raging in boundless commotion . The breakers are heard , And all are prepar'd ; To the rigging with cords they have bound them : No star in the sky , Nor light they espy 102 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
... The billows are chased , High - raging in boundless commotion . The breakers are heard , And all are prepar'd ; To the rigging with cords they have bound them : No star in the sky , Nor light they espy 102 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
Page 107
... heard it at first , it struck me as one of the most plaintive and simple complaints I had ever met with . It is in my opinion quite a melody , and a sad one too . Alas , that we should grow old ! " Egeria turned over the papers , till ...
... heard it at first , it struck me as one of the most plaintive and simple complaints I had ever met with . It is in my opinion quite a melody , and a sad one too . Alas , that we should grow old ! " Egeria turned over the papers , till ...
Page 126
... heard speaking to her imps one night , and bid them go to another witch , who was thereupon ap- prehended , and searched by women , who had for many years known the devil's marks , and found to have some marks about her which honest ...
... heard speaking to her imps one night , and bid them go to another witch , who was thereupon ap- prehended , and searched by women , who had for many years known the devil's marks , and found to have some marks about her which honest ...
Page 133
... heard and saw not that this gorgeous train of ruin was terminated by a person bear- ing that copy of the law , which had been preserved for so many ages in the hallowed archives of the sanctuary . Soon after , a terrible shout announced ...
... heard and saw not that this gorgeous train of ruin was terminated by a person bear- ing that copy of the law , which had been preserved for so many ages in the hallowed archives of the sanctuary . Soon after , a terrible shout announced ...
Page 138
... . There is a circle in the theatre of time beyond which they cannot be heard . The fate of Adrian , and all like him , is this : -the present age ad- mires his structures ; the next will do so too 138 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
... . There is a circle in the theatre of time beyond which they cannot be heard . The fate of Adrian , and all like him , is this : -the present age ad- mires his structures ; the next will do so too 138 THE BACHELOR'S WIFE .
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