Kenilworth. By the author of 'Waverley'. |
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Pàgina 39
... cause . I should stand self- convicted of villainy , were I to urge such a de- ceit . Begone , I tell thee - Must I entreat thee to mine own dishonour ? » " - No , my lord , » said Varney - but if you are serious in entrusting me with ...
... cause . I should stand self- convicted of villainy , were I to urge such a de- ceit . Begone , I tell thee - Must I entreat thee to mine own dishonour ? » " - No , my lord , » said Varney - but if you are serious in entrusting me with ...
Pàgina 52
... cause of these reiterated exclama- tions . When they entered the apartment , Varney stood by the door grinding his teeth , with an expression in which rage , and shame , and fear , had each their share . The Countess stood in the midst ...
... cause of these reiterated exclama- tions . When they entered the apartment , Varney stood by the door grinding his teeth , with an expression in which rage , and shame , and fear , had each their share . The Countess stood in the midst ...
Pàgina 63
... cause to mourn not those who are innocent ! Farewell , madam ! she said , hastily assuming the mantle in which she was wont to go abroad . -- ( ( Do leave you me , Janet ? » said her mistress - « desert me in such an evil strait ...
... cause to mourn not those who are innocent ! Farewell , madam ! she said , hastily assuming the mantle in which she was wont to go abroad . -- ( ( Do leave you me , Janet ? » said her mistress - « desert me in such an evil strait ...
Pàgina 80
... cause with her husband himself , whom Janet , though distrusting him more than the Countess did , believed incapable of being accessary to the base and desperate means which his dependants , from whose power the lady was now escaping ...
... cause with her husband himself , whom Janet , though distrusting him more than the Countess did , believed incapable of being accessary to the base and desperate means which his dependants , from whose power the lady was now escaping ...
Pàgina 85
... cause , I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common it had but been send- ing back the brute to the Headborough . The farcy and the founders confound every horse in the stables of the Black Bear ! >> ― The ...
... cause , I would have thought little to have prigged a prancer from the next common it had but been send- ing back the brute to the Headborough . The farcy and the founders confound every horse in the stables of the Black Bear ! >> ― The ...
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alarm Alasco Amy Robsart answered Varney answered Wayland Anthony Foster apartment attend beauty Berkshire better betwixt Blount Castle cester chamber command countenance Countess of Leicester court Cumnor Cumnor-Place devil door dress Earl of Leicester Earl of Sussex Earl's Elizabeth exclaimed eyes farther favour fear Flibbertigibbet followed Grace hand hastily hath head hear heard heart heaven honour horse Hunsdon husband instant instantly Janet journey Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle lady Laneham Leicester's look Lord Hunsdon Lord Leicester Lord of Leicester lordship madam marriage Master Tressilian mercer Mervyn's Michael Lambourne mind mistress night noble once pedlar person present Queen Raleigh Richard Varney Robsart secret seemed shew Sir Richard speak spoke stood Sussex sword thee thine thing thou art thou hast thought thyself tion Tony Foster Tower Tressi villain voice Wayland Smith William Julius Mickle woman words yonder
Passatges populars
Pàgina 16 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Pàgina 120 - ... across which Leicester had constructed a stately bridge, that Elizabeth might enter the castle by a path hitherto untrodden, instead of the usual entrance to the northward; over which he had erected a gate-house or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in extent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief, " Beyond the lake lay an extensive chase, full of...
Pàgina 121 - The bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp ; and the massive ruins of the Castle only serve to show what their splendour once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value of human possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous contentment.
Pàgina 32 - When she smiled, it was a pure sunshine, that every one did choose to bask in, if they could ; but anon came a storm, from a sudden gathering of clouds, and the thunder fell, in a wondrous manner, on all alike.
Pàgina 247 - Forgive me, forgive me, most gracious princess,' said Amy, dropping once more on her knee, from which she had arisen. "'For what should I forgive thee, silly wench?' said Elizabeth ; ' for being the daughter of thine own father ? Thou art brainsick, surely. Well, I see, I must wring the story from thee by inches. Thou didst deceive thine old and honored father, — thy look confesses it, — cheated Master Tressilian, — thy blush avouches it, — and married this same Varney.