The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Westland Marston ...: Strathmore. Marie de Méranie. Life for life. A life's ransom. The patrician's daughter. Anne BlakeChatto and Windus, 1876 |
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... to frame a mental interest . It is less the astute politician , * This lady is by some writers called Agnes ; but nomine Mariam are the express words of Rigord . than the Philip capable of the noblest and most benevolent PREFACE . ix.
... to frame a mental interest . It is less the astute politician , * This lady is by some writers called Agnes ; but nomine Mariam are the express words of Rigord . than the Philip capable of the noblest and most benevolent PREFACE . ix.
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... called it mine ? But for my brain They could not wag their envious tongues - these churls ! Who forced them , who , but I , a soldier bred , To keep their vantage - ground ? They else had rushed Into the marsh , and , overwhelmed by ...
... called it mine ? But for my brain They could not wag their envious tongues - these churls ! Who forced them , who , but I , a soldier bred , To keep their vantage - ground ? They else had rushed Into the marsh , and , overwhelmed by ...
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... called love , And only asks time's lancet for its cure ; It takes a thousand shapes ! The schoolboy has it At close of holidays ; the maiden feels it When her pet pigeon dies ! Sometimes it comes As a November fog ! Count Grammont had ...
... called love , And only asks time's lancet for its cure ; It takes a thousand shapes ! The schoolboy has it At close of holidays ; the maiden feels it When her pet pigeon dies ! Sometimes it comes As a November fog ! Count Grammont had ...
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... called faith- Faith in itself that floods its frame with might ! No hireling arm for us ! Our own we raise In our own war . [ Rises . ] Wake , France , thy crutches fall ; Thou towerest singly in thine inborn health , Match for the ...
... called faith- Faith in itself that floods its frame with might ! No hireling arm for us ! Our own we raise In our own war . [ Rises . ] Wake , France , thy crutches fall ; Thou towerest singly in thine inborn health , Match for the ...
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... called thy father , father ! [ Throws himself in supplication at SIR OSCAR's feet . Sir O. [ Compassionately . ] I pity thee . Mur . Ay , thou wert ruthless else ; But dost thou yield ? Thou dost ! Sir O. When only fury pleads ...
... called thy father , father ! [ Throws himself in supplication at SIR OSCAR's feet . Sir O. [ Compassionately . ] I pity thee . Mur . Ay , thou wert ruthless else ; But dost thou yield ? Thou dost ! Sir O. When only fury pleads ...
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