The Vale of Cedars: Or, The Martyr

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D. Appleton, 1906 - Počet stran: 323

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Strana 135 - We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
Strana 181 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
Strana xii - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Strana 57 - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen...
Strana 69 - Yet was I calm : I knew the time My breast would thrill before thy look ; But now to tremble were a crime — We met, and not a nerve was shook.
Strana 205 - Religion and the Law, With Superstition's name ! yet, yet their deeds, Their constancy in torture and in death, — These on Tradition's tongue still live ; these shall On History's honest page be pictured bright To latest times.
Strana vii - ... poetry ; but she never permitted herself the pleasure of original composition until all her duties and her studies were performed. Grace Aguilar was extremely fond of music; she had been taught the piano from infancy ; and, in 1831, commenced the harp. She sang pleasingly, preferred English songs, invariably selecting them for the beauty or sentiment of the words. She was also passionately fond of dancing ; and her cheerful, lively manners, in the society of her young friends, would scarcely...
Strana 134 - ... solemn hymn accompanied the lowering of the coffin ; a prayer in the same unknown language ; a brief address, and the grave was filled up, the noble dead left with his kindred, kindred alike in blood as faith ; and ere the morning rose, the living had all departed, save the few retainers of the houses of Henriquez and Morales, to whose faithful charge the retreat had been intrusted.
Strana 322 - But this stranger, what had he to do with it ?" demanded many of the group, impatient at the interruption. " What he had to do with it I really cannot tell you, but his zeal to avert the edict lost him, in a great measure, the confidence of Ferdinand. When he found to prevent their expulsion was impossible, he did all in his power to lessen their misfortune, if such it may be called, by relieving every unbeliever that crossed his path.
Strana 12 - The words were few and simple, but the tone in which they were spoken recalled Arthur's better nature, and banished hope at once. A pause ensued, broken only by the young man's hurried tread, as he traversed the little platform in the vaiu ft struggle for calmness.

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