Courtenay of Walreddon1844 |
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9. oldal
... characters and events of King Charles's time , which , I thought , could not fail to interest others as much as they had myself , I determined on publication . My next difficulty was to hit upon a name for my work ; that was indeed a ...
... characters and events of King Charles's time , which , I thought , could not fail to interest others as much as they had myself , I determined on publication . My next difficulty was to hit upon a name for my work ; that was indeed a ...
10. oldal
... characters and events . I like minute details and minor traits , that show the heart with more fidelity than the most laboured accounts of great passions and affairs . The warmth , the natural eloquence of real feeling , always leads to ...
... characters and events . I like minute details and minor traits , that show the heart with more fidelity than the most laboured accounts of great passions and affairs . The warmth , the natural eloquence of real feeling , always leads to ...
12. oldal
... character possessing , in no common degree , passions and dispo- sitions calculated to excite at once terror and awe . This must have been the case , or such tales of a lady so great , so powerful , so long a resident in this county ...
... character possessing , in no common degree , passions and dispo- sitions calculated to excite at once terror and awe . This must have been the case , or such tales of a lady so great , so powerful , so long a resident in this county ...
14. oldal
... characters , passages , and events in the fol- lowing memoirs , though , generally speaking , they will be found to bear very little on public affairs ; the circumstances they detail , and the remarkable narrative of which they are ...
... characters , passages , and events in the fol- lowing memoirs , though , generally speaking , they will be found to bear very little on public affairs ; the circumstances they detail , and the remarkable narrative of which they are ...
17. oldal
... character of your father . In fine , I propose , in the following pages , to treat not merely of events , but of motives and principles . In penning these memoirs , I feel I shall have infinite delight ; for it is as natural for an old ...
... character of your father . In fine , I propose , in the following pages , to treat not merely of events , but of motives and principles . In penning these memoirs , I feel I shall have infinite delight ; for it is as natural for an old ...
Más kiadások - Összes megtekintése
Courtenay of Walreddon: A Romance of the West (Classic Reprint) Anna Eliza Bray Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2018 |
Courtenay of Walreddon: A Romance of the West (Classic Reprint) Mrs. Bray Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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Antonio Miotte arms bless bosom brother called Captain Courtenay Captain Smith Carew cause Chagford child Chud church Cinderella circumstances Colonel Cornet Coryton danger dear death door enemy exclaimed eyes fancied father fear feelings Gandy gentleman girl give gypsy hand head hear heard heart honour hope horse James Chudleigh James Smith John Goodman kersey cloth King's knew Lady Howard Lady Isabella live looked manner matter mayor mercy Mewey mind mother never night old Constance once papers Papist Parliament pass passion Plymouth poor prison Radigund replied Robin Rougemont Castle Roundheads Royalists Ruthen seemed Sir Arthur Astell Sir Bevil Grenville Sir George Chudleigh Sir Henry Howard Sir Hugh Pollard Sir Ralph Hopton Slanning soon sorrow soul speak spirit spoke stood strong suffer surprise sword Tavistock tell thing thought tion told truth unhappy Walreddon whilst wife wish woman word young
Népszerű szakaszok
21. oldal - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes i...
94. oldal - Tis a history Handed from ages down ; a nurse's tale . . Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd devour ; And thus as garrulous ignorance relates, We learn it and believe.
280. oldal - Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me.
21. oldal - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my...
239. oldal - Then I am paid ; And once again I do receive thee honest : — Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth...
118. oldal - Yes, The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its idolatry ; But oh ! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted — The thoughts, the recollections sweet and bitter— Th...
290. oldal - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i...
75. oldal - The Sun was set ; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place ; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings ; The prudent maiden deems it now too late, And till to-morrow comes defers her fate.
118. oldal - Yea, time hath power, and what a power I'll tell thee: A power to change the pulses of the heart To one dull throb of ceaseless agony — To hush the sigh on the resigned lip, And lock it in the heart — freeze the hot tear, And bid it on the eyelid hang for ever! — Such power hath time o'er me.
67. oldal - The bloom of opening flowers, unsullied beauty, Softness, and sweetest innocence she wears, And looks like nature in the world's first spring.