Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 50
... Colonel Desmond , under the arch of the gate - house , with no other person near him but two or three porters and under wardens , who were busy lowering the gates and securing the portcullis . " This is all vastly disagreeable ...
... Colonel Desmond , under the arch of the gate - house , with no other person near him but two or three porters and under wardens , who were busy lowering the gates and securing the portcullis . " This is all vastly disagreeable ...
Pàgina 51
... colonel , " from garrulous old superstitious veterans , like good McCarthy , and young , over - boiling hot - heads , like cousin Con and cousin Ulick . But I did look to hear something very different from the lips of a man of the world ...
... colonel , " from garrulous old superstitious veterans , like good McCarthy , and young , over - boiling hot - heads , like cousin Con and cousin Ulick . But I did look to hear something very different from the lips of a man of the world ...
Pàgina 55
... colonel , who might be basking in the light of your eyes , Eily ? But . what said Hardress - ha ? ” " Hardress either knows nothing of the matter , or is as close- tongued as beseems a lord's page to be , " answered the girl . " Or a ...
... colonel , who might be basking in the light of your eyes , Eily ? But . what said Hardress - ha ? ” " Hardress either knows nothing of the matter , or is as close- tongued as beseems a lord's page to be , " answered the girl . " Or a ...
Pàgina 84
... Colonel Desmond . None , however , knew - with the exception of the gentlemen and vassals who had composed the hunting party - who this stranger was ; and as these either evaded answering any questions put to them , or replied openly ...
... Colonel Desmond . None , however , knew - with the exception of the gentlemen and vassals who had composed the hunting party - who this stranger was ; and as these either evaded answering any questions put to them , or replied openly ...
Pàgina 86
... Colonel Desmond has of his love for us consented , mother , to take upon himself a most unpleasant task - to be the enter- tainer , namely , of this inmate , holding him in such honorable ward as I dare only for the present to impose ...
... Colonel Desmond has of his love for us consented , mother , to take upon himself a most unpleasant task - to be the enter- tainer , namely , of this inmate , holding him in such honorable ward as I dare only for the present to impose ...
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Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
Dermot O'brien, Or the Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649 (Classic Reprint) Henry William Herbert Previsualització no disponible - 2018 |
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Pàgina 94 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
Pàgina 95 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Pàgina 41 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Pàgina 137 - God ! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood...
Pàgina 137 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind; With all the while a cheek whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb...
Pàgina 26 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep,* And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep,* The loophole grates, where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Pàgina 137 - I've seen the sick and ghastly bed Of Sin delirious with its dread: But these were horrors — this was woe Unmix'd with such — but sure and slow. He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender — kind, And grieved for those he left behind...