Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Tom 3Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - 370 |
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... recita- tion , for I am better accustomed to speak to a battalion than to those who love the muses . The speaker is a lady benighted , who , having lost her way in a pathless forest , at first expresses her- WOODSTOCK . 23.
... recita- tion , for I am better accustomed to speak to a battalion than to those who love the muses . The speaker is a lady benighted , who , having lost her way in a pathless forest , at first expresses her- WOODSTOCK . 23.
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... speaking , the old man sighed as at the end of a strain of sweet music . He then spoke in a gentler manner than formerly . " Cousin Markham , " he said , " these verses flow sweetly , and sound in my ears like the well- touched warbling ...
... speaking , the old man sighed as at the end of a strain of sweet music . He then spoke in a gentler manner than formerly . " Cousin Markham , " he said , " these verses flow sweetly , and sound in my ears like the well- touched warbling ...
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... speak words of praise respecting one , whose offal should fatten the region - kites.- Speak not to me , sir , but begone ! Am I , your kinsman and benefactor , a fit person to be jug- gled out of my commendation and praise , and brought ...
... speak words of praise respecting one , whose offal should fatten the region - kites.- Speak not to me , sir , but begone ! Am I , your kinsman and benefactor , a fit person to be jug- gled out of my commendation and praise , and brought ...
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... speak treason against all true affection , " said the gallant ; " a lady's lightest wish should to a true knight be more binding than aught ex- cepting the summons of his sovereign . I wish , Mistress Alice , you would but intimate your ...
... speak treason against all true affection , " said the gallant ; " a lady's lightest wish should to a true knight be more binding than aught ex- cepting the summons of his sovereign . I wish , Mistress Alice , you would but intimate your ...
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... Speak for me , good lute , " he added , taking up the instrument , " and show whe- ther I know not my duty . " He sung , but with more taste than execution , the air of a French rondelai , to which some of the wits or sonnetteers , in ...
... Speak for me , good lute , " he added , taking up the instrument , " and show whe- ther I know not my duty . " He sung , but with more taste than execution , the air of a French rondelai , to which some of the wits or sonnetteers , in ...
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Strona 284 - CHAPTER XXXIV The king, therefore, for his defence Against the furious queen, At Woodstock builded such a bower As never yet was seen. Most curiously that bower was built, Of stone and timber strong ; An hundred and fifty doors Did to this bower belong : And they so cunningly contrived, With turnings round about, That none but with a clew of thread Could enter in or out.
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