KenilworthAdam & Charles Black, 1886 - 479 pàgines |
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Amy Robsart Anthony Foster apartment better betwixt Bindloose Blount brother called Captain Jekyl Captain MacTurk Cargill Clara Mowbray countenance countess Countess of Leicester court Cumnor Place dame devil Dods door dress Earl of Etherington Earl of Leicester Earl of Sussex Elizabeth exclaimed eyes father favor fear Flibbertigibbet followed gentleman give guest hand hastily hath heard heart Heaven honest honor horse Janet Kenilworth Lady Binks Lady Penelope ladyship Leicester's look Lord Etherington lordship madam marriage Martigny Master Tressilian means Meiklewham Mervyn's Michael Lambourne mind Miss Mowbray never night noble person pleasure poor present queen Raleigh replied Richard Varney Robsart Ronan's secret seemed Shaws Castle silian Sir Bingo sister speak Sussex tell thee thine thing thou art thought tone Tony Foster Touchwood turn Tyrrel walk Wayland Smith Winterblossom woman word yonder young
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Pàgina 202 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Pàgina 8 - The dews of summer night did fall, The moon (sweet regent of the sky) Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall, And many an oak that grew thereby.
Pàgina 231 - 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 288 - ... there blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, could Ambition have lent ear to it, might have read a lesson to the haughty favourite who had now acquired, and was augmenting, the fair domain. A large and massive keep, which formed the citadel of the castle, was of uncertain though great antiquity. It bore the name of Caesar, perhaps from its resemblance to that in the Tower of London so called.
Pàgina 166 - So saying, he walked away, followed by Walter, leaving the others behind, Blount's eyes almost starting from his head with the excess of his astonishment. At length he gave vent to it in an exclamation —
Pàgina 166 - Queen's order apparently, made a sign for the wherry to come alongside, and the young man was desired to step from his own skiff into the Queen's barge, which he performed with graceful agility at the fore part of the boat, and was brought aft to the Queen's presence, the wherry at the same time dropping into the rear. The youth underwent the gaze of Majesty, not the less gracefully that his self-possession was mingled with embarrassment. The muddied cloak still hung upon his arm, and formed the...
Pàgina 163 - It was even so. The royal barge, manned with the Queen's watermen, richly attired in the regal liveries, and having the banner of England displayed, did indeed lie at the great stairs which ascended from the river, and along with it two or three other boats for transporting such part of her retinue as were not in immediate attendance on the royal person.
Pàgina 168 - His conduct might have made him styled A father, and the nymph his child. That innocent delight he took To see the virgin mind her book, Was but the master's secret joy In school to hear the finest boy.
Pàgina 355 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Pàgina 240 - 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.