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75. oldal
... time ; let it be my punishment - the nurse had a cousin , a serf on our estate , who had a child of precisely the same age as ours . The woman was in the ity . " rob me of my only comfort - my only consolation THE MODERN VASSAL . 75.
... time ; let it be my punishment - the nurse had a cousin , a serf on our estate , who had a child of precisely the same age as ours . The woman was in the ity . " rob me of my only comfort - my only consolation THE MODERN VASSAL . 75.
77. oldal
... serfs , amongst whom he had chiefly lived of late years , had not tended to teach him self - control . Leon had much of the same ingredients in his composition for good or for evil ; and , thanks to his training , was as ob- stinate and ...
... serfs , amongst whom he had chiefly lived of late years , had not tended to teach him self - control . Leon had much of the same ingredients in his composition for good or for evil ; and , thanks to his training , was as ob- stinate and ...
78. oldal
... serf . I had myself destined you for another fate , but Heaven would not permit it - however , I shall take care my brave boy is not lowered down to work like a common peasant . I'll beg , or , for that matter , steal , before it comes ...
... serf . I had myself destined you for another fate , but Heaven would not permit it - however , I shall take care my brave boy is not lowered down to work like a common peasant . I'll beg , or , for that matter , steal , before it comes ...
107. oldal
... serf's wood and roof - your clear rental upon the countess - your boys apprenticed at her expense - they get a present of clothes whenever they want them , and yet , with all these advantages , you and your children are always dirty and ...
... serf's wood and roof - your clear rental upon the countess - your boys apprenticed at her expense - they get a present of clothes whenever they want them , and yet , with all these advantages , you and your children are always dirty and ...
111. oldal
... serf would venture to meddle with anything mysterious in its appearance , from fear of being involved in mat- ters displeasing to his master , the Jew was ever ready for profit , great or small , to run his neck into any noose . Stolen ...
... serf would venture to meddle with anything mysterious in its appearance , from fear of being involved in mat- ters displeasing to his master , the Jew was ever ready for profit , great or small , to run his neck into any noose . Stolen ...
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371. oldal - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
398. oldal - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
393. oldal - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
371. oldal - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
399. oldal - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
378. oldal - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
399. oldal - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
139. oldal - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
378. oldal - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
398. oldal - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...