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Strona v
... present instance , we are able to gratify the reader's curiosity . WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH unites in his own name the names of two families which , in the eminent success of various members of them , had obtained celebrity long prior ...
... present instance , we are able to gratify the reader's curiosity . WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH unites in his own name the names of two families which , in the eminent success of various members of them , had obtained celebrity long prior ...
Strona viii
... present Mr. Justice Williams , and many others . Here our youth- ful student so far distinguished himself as to have received very flattering testimonials from Dr. Smith ( the then head - master of the school ) , and his colleague , Dr ...
... present Mr. Justice Williams , and many others . Here our youth- ful student so far distinguished himself as to have received very flattering testimonials from Dr. Smith ( the then head - master of the school ) , and his colleague , Dr ...
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... present feeling may be - now that he has accomplished his young desire to the full - we pause not to ask . It is enough to know that coming events often cast before them shadows far gaudier than themselves . The glory fades in ...
... present feeling may be - now that he has accomplished his young desire to the full - we pause not to ask . It is enough to know that coming events often cast before them shadows far gaudier than themselves . The glory fades in ...
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... present the terrors of burial vaults and the blood - stained mysteries of family crime side by side with the most familiar scenes of the every - day life of the eighteenth century , without exciting the slightest feeling of the ...
... present the terrors of burial vaults and the blood - stained mysteries of family crime side by side with the most familiar scenes of the every - day life of the eighteenth century , without exciting the slightest feeling of the ...
Strona xx
... present year ( 1842 ) , it was Mr. Ainsworth's affliction to lose his surviving parent - the revered mother who had taken pride in his rising fame , and had found joy in his constant affection . A beautiful monumental tribute to both ...
... present year ( 1842 ) , it was Mr. Ainsworth's affliction to lose his surviving parent - the revered mother who had taken pride in his rising fame , and had found joy in his constant affection . A beautiful monumental tribute to both ...
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Ainsworth Alan Rookwood amongst answered appeared arms asked Barbara beauty Black Bess blood bride brother Canting Crew Carrion Crow Checkley coffin countenance cried Luke curse dark Davenham dead death devil Dick Turpin door echoed Eleanor Mowbray exclaimed eyes father fear followed gazed gibbet gipsy glance ground hall hand Handassah hath head hear heard highwayman honour horse instant Jack Palmer Jerry knight of Malta Lady Rookwood ladyship laugh look Luke Bradley Luke's Major Mowbray mare mother never night once pals passed Paterson patrico Peter Bradley pistol priest Ranulph Rookwood Rapparees replied Coates replied Luke returned Rook rushed scarcely seemed sexton shouted silent Sir Luke Rookwood Sir Piers's Sir Ranulph Sir Reginald song steed stood stream Sybil thee thou thought Titus Tom King tone tree Tyrconnel uttered vault voice wild WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH words Zoroaster
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Strona xxxii - That humour interposed too often makes; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heaven, though little noticed here.
Strona 127 - Lay a garland on my hearse, Of the dismal yew; Maidens, willow branches bear; Say I died true: My love was false, but I was firm From my hour of birth. Upon my buried body lie Lightly, gentle earth!
Strona xxvi - You shall swear by custom of confession, That you ne.er made nuptial transgression ; Nor since you were married man and wife, By household brawls or contentious strife, Or otherwise at bed or at board, Offended each other in deed or in word ; Or since the parish clerk said Amen...
Strona 295 - It is done — it is won," cried Dick. Hurrah, hurrah !" And the sunny air was cleft with his shouts. Bess was not insensible to her master's exultation. She neighed feebly in answer to his call, and reeled forwards. It was a piteous sight to see her, — to mark her staring, protruding eyeball, — her shaking flanks ; but, while life and limb held together, she held on. Another mile is past. York is near. " Hurrah ! " shouted Dick ; but his voice was hushed. Bess tottered — fell. There was a...
Strona 278 - All that are desirous to pass from London to York," continues the advertisement, " or from York to London, or any other place on that road, let them repair to the Black Swan in Holborn, in London, or to the Black Swan in Coney Street, in York.
Strona 266 - ... his pursuers. Coates and Titus he utterly disregarded ; but Paterson was a more formidable foe, and he well knew that he had to deal with a man of experience and resolution. It was then, for the first time, that the thoughts of executing his extraordinary ride to York first flashed across him ; his bosom throbbed high with rapture, and he involuntarily exclaimed aloud, as he raised himself in the saddle, "By God! I will do it!
Strona 312 - s chamber found his grace All on a cold sweat, alter'd much in face And language: since which apparition, He hath grown worse and worse, and I much fear He cannot live.
Strona 296 - leave Bess to me." Possessing himself of the wallet, Dick disappeared in the adjoining copse. He had not been gone many seconds when Major Mowbray rode up. "Who is this? " exclaimed the major, flinging himself from his horse, and seizing the patrico: "this is not Turpin.
Strona 272 - Bess started forward at a pace which few horses could have equalled, and scarcely any have sustained so long. Even Dick, accustomed as he was to her magnificent action, felt electrified at the speed with which he was borne along. " Bravo ! bravo ! shouted he ; " hark away, Bess ! " The deep and solemn woods through which they were rushing rang with his shouts and the sharp rattle of Bess...
Strona 116 - And I can assure you, friend, there's a great deal of address and good manners in robbing a lady; I am the most a gentleman that way that ever travelled the road.