Waverley Novels: Vol. 10, Svazek 10Cadell, 1846 - Počet stran: 588 |
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Strana 12
... sure the divell ! Let us pray . They pray'd amain ; and , as they say , * Aproach of day did cleere the doubt , For all devotions were run out , They now waxt strong and something stout ; One peaked Under the bed , but nought was there ...
... sure the divell ! Let us pray . They pray'd amain ; and , as they say , * Aproach of day did cleere the doubt , For all devotions were run out , They now waxt strong and something stout ; One peaked Under the bed , but nought was there ...
Strana 15
... sure than was the devil to their Com- missioners at Woodstock ; for he warned them , with dreadful noises , to drive them from their work . This councillor , without more ado , would have all who retain'd conceits of allegiance to their ...
... sure than was the devil to their Com- missioners at Woodstock ; for he warned them , with dreadful noises , to drive them from their work . This councillor , without more ado , would have all who retain'd conceits of allegiance to their ...
Strana 53
... sure , my dearest Phoebe , as " - The rest of the asseveration was lost in Phoebe's ear , so closely did the keeper's lips approach it ; and if they approached so very near as to touch her cheek , grief , like impatience , hath its ...
... sure , my dearest Phoebe , as " - The rest of the asseveration was lost in Phoebe's ear , so closely did the keeper's lips approach it ; and if they approached so very near as to touch her cheek , grief , like impatience , hath its ...
Strana 65
... sure ! " " Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough , Mark , only out of fashion a little - the more's the pity . " " What could I expect , " said Everard , " but to meet some ranting , drunken cavalier , as desperate and dangerous as ...
... sure ! " " Faith , the tune's a pretty tune enough , Mark , only out of fashion a little - the more's the pity . " " What could I expect , " said Everard , " but to meet some ranting , drunken cavalier , as desperate and dangerous as ...
Strana 66
... sure , have done for me . But , as I said , that is just what I wished to speak to you about . Why render the task of protecting you more difficult than it must necessarily be at any rate ? Why thrust thyself into the company of ...
... sure , have done for me . But , as I said , that is just what I wished to speak to you about . Why render the task of protecting you more difficult than it must necessarily be at any rate ? Why thrust thyself into the company of ...
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Strana 251 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
Strana 126 - Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch, that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night, That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide.
Strana 343 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our >nfant institution.
Strana 216 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud . Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night...
Strana 340 - Unknown — the minstrel of our native land — the mighty magician who has rolled back the current of time, and conjured up before our living senses the men and the manners of days which have long passed away, stands revealed to the eyes and the hearts of his affectionate and admiring countrymen.
Strana 26 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Strana 5 - Commissioners' servants, as they were in bed in the same room with their honours, had their bed's feet lifted up so much higher than their heads, that they expected to have their necks broken, and then they were let fall at once with such violence as...
Strana 7 - To show how great men are sometimes deceived, we may recur to a tract, entitled " The Secret History of the Good Devil of Woodstock, "in which we find it, under the author's own hand, that he, Joseph Collins, commonly called Funny Joe, was himself this very devil ; that, under the feigned name of Giles Sharp, he hired himself as a servant to the Commissioners...
Strana 314 - EARS rush by us like the wind. We see not whence the eddy comes, nor whitherward it is tending, and we seem ourselves to witness their flight without a sense that we are changed; and yet Time is beguiling man of his strength, as the winds rob the woods of their foliage.