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... person more disinclined to submit quietly to martyrdom ; and , seizing the poker , he bade a bold defiance to his assailants . The thickest skull has but a sorry chance against " cold iron ; " and none of the angry citizens , although ...
... person more disinclined to submit quietly to martyrdom ; and , seizing the poker , he bade a bold defiance to his assailants . The thickest skull has but a sorry chance against " cold iron ; " and none of the angry citizens , although ...
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... persons and properties of his subjects Denis took occasional liberties , loosing and binding as he pleased and when example was thought preferable to precept , hanging a delinquent out of the face , " for the general benefit of the body ...
... persons and properties of his subjects Denis took occasional liberties , loosing and binding as he pleased and when example was thought preferable to precept , hanging a delinquent out of the face , " for the general benefit of the body ...
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... 66 The look and imprecation were not lost on the person to whom they were addressed . They produced no other effect , however , than eliciting a bitter and sarcastic smile ; B 4 CAPTAIN BLAKE . 7 "Did I not tell ye I was there already...
... 66 The look and imprecation were not lost on the person to whom they were addressed . They produced no other effect , however , than eliciting a bitter and sarcastic smile ; B 4 CAPTAIN BLAKE . 7 "Did I not tell ye I was there already...
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... person of the outlaw was secure . No opaque form , however , presented itself in the partial moonlight . " Holy Virgin ! can this be possible ? " he exclaimed , rubbing his eyes anew ; but the branch that " bore the weight of An- tony ...
... person of the outlaw was secure . No opaque form , however , presented itself in the partial moonlight . " Holy Virgin ! can this be possible ? " he exclaimed , rubbing his eyes anew ; but the branch that " bore the weight of An- tony ...
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... persons of the offenders . But on reflection , she recollected that honest Anthony's pistol- hand had been already damaged in action ; and even were he in full force , he was but one man , and what was that among so many . Legal redress ...
... persons of the offenders . But on reflection , she recollected that honest Anthony's pistol- hand had been already damaged in action ; and even were he in full force , he was but one man , and what was that among so many . Legal redress ...
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Page 78 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!
Page 201 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 28 - It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word ; And gentle winds, and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear. Each flower the dews have lightly wet, And in the sky the stars are met, And on the wave is deeper blue, And on the leaf a browner hue, And in the heaven that clear obscure, So softly dark, and darkly pure, Which follows the decline of day, As twilight melts beneath the moon away.
Page 56 - Oh, have you e'er heard of Kate Kearney? She lives on the banks of Killarney; From the glance of her eye, Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney.
Page 98 - You stole her from me ; like a thief you stole her, At dead of night ! that cursed hour you chose To rifle me of all my heart held dear. May all your joys in her prove false, like mine ! A sterile fortune and a barren bed Attend you both : continual discord make Your days and nights bitter, and grievous still ! May the hard hand of a vexatious need Oppress and grind...
Page 274 - By Heavens! I would fling all goods of fortune from me with a prodigal hand, to enjoy the scene where I might clasp my Lydia to my bosom, and say, the world affords no smile to me but here — [Embracing her.] If she holds out now, the devil is in it! [Aside. Lyd. Now could I fly with him to the antipodes! but my persecution is not yet come to a crisis.
Page 366 - I to expect, but after a deal of flimsy preparation, with a bishop's licence, and my aunt's blessing, to go simpering up to the altar! or, perhaps, be cried three times in a country church, and have an unmannerly fat clerk ask the consent of every butcher in the parish...
Page 38 - Let it be so! thy truth then be thy dower! For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate and the night; By all the operation of the orbs From whom we do exist and cease to be...
Page 184 - In sight, then lost amid the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy; A huge dun cupola like a foolscap crown On a fool's head — and there is London town!
Page 422 - I did consent, And often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffer'd. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...