Courtenay of Walreddon1844 |
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16. oldal
... peace and order to my dear country , I look back on my early days , with much the same feelings , as we do on the terrors of a frightful dream . The great occurrences of the civil wars have become subjects for history ; and for history ...
... peace and order to my dear country , I look back on my early days , with much the same feelings , as we do on the terrors of a frightful dream . The great occurrences of the civil wars have become subjects for history ; and for history ...
26. oldal
... peace , hoped much ; and that our public disputes would soon be brought to a settlement , satisfactory both to the Royalists and the Parliamentarians . But alas ! an end so desirable for the general good was not yet at hand . England ...
... peace , hoped much ; and that our public disputes would soon be brought to a settlement , satisfactory both to the Royalists and the Parliamentarians . But alas ! an end so desirable for the general good was not yet at hand . England ...
74. oldal
... clerk , " it would Bro- be doing a work of mercy and of love . therly love and peace have nothing to do with the gallows . My dear , " ( for when the good old clerk tried to conciliate his surly and snappish 74 COURTENAY.
... clerk , " it would Bro- be doing a work of mercy and of love . therly love and peace have nothing to do with the gallows . My dear , " ( for when the good old clerk tried to conciliate his surly and snappish 74 COURTENAY.
95. oldal
... peace with Heaven , before he became no longer a tenant of earth . " Her entreaties proved vain ; and all that she could obtain from her stern enemy , was a promise that her husband's life should be spared , till a lamp then lighted in ...
... peace with Heaven , before he became no longer a tenant of earth . " Her entreaties proved vain ; and all that she could obtain from her stern enemy , was a promise that her husband's life should be spared , till a lamp then lighted in ...
104. oldal
... peace restored to the West , it is my intention to repair that tower , and with the chapel , to render it useful and habitable to my household . " Thus ended Lady Howard's tale . The rest of that evening passed delightfully ; so ...
... peace restored to the West , it is my intention to repair that tower , and with the chapel , to render it useful and habitable to my household . " Thus ended Lady Howard's tale . The rest of that evening passed delightfully ; so ...
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 |
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
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
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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.