Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 24
... night before the last , I entered the camp before Dub- lin , with a safe conduct from our good father Mac Odeghan , who reconciled me three months since in Cheshire , to the earl , and thought to tarry there until your joining with your ...
... night before the last , I entered the camp before Dub- lin , with a safe conduct from our good father Mac Odeghan , who reconciled me three months since in Cheshire , to the earl , and thought to tarry there until your joining with your ...
Pàgina 35
... night , from any mortal power to harm thee . " The clansman , hot as he was , and fiery , thus rebuked by his great chief , had not a word to offer in reply . The flush faded out from his burning brow ; the spark died in his passionate ...
... night , from any mortal power to harm thee . " The clansman , hot as he was , and fiery , thus rebuked by his great chief , had not a word to offer in reply . The flush faded out from his burning brow ; the spark died in his passionate ...
Pàgina 36
... night , therefore , you are safe as a hostage , and every hostage is a guest ; so be our guest to - night , O'Neil — let to- morrow bring with it , as it may , life or death , joy or sorrow . " " Good faith ! if it rest on that alone ...
... night , therefore , you are safe as a hostage , and every hostage is a guest ; so be our guest to - night , O'Neil — let to- morrow bring with it , as it may , life or death , joy or sorrow . " " Good faith ! if it rest on that alone ...
Pàgina 38
... night at least ; and if the morning shall prove thy tidings true , and that thou hast in all sincerity returned to the true faith , from which an evil hour and a false villain's tongue seduced thee - in all sincerity returned to the ...
... night at least ; and if the morning shall prove thy tidings true , and that thou hast in all sincerity returned to the true faith , from which an evil hour and a false villain's tongue seduced thee - in all sincerity returned to the ...
Pàgina 42
... night it was most peril- ous ; and unable to judge the depth of the sullen forward , or even to distinguish the mouth of the mountain road on the far- ther brink , he must have been a rash and reckless man who would have attempted to ...
... night it was most peril- ous ; and unable to judge the depth of the sullen forward , or even to distinguish the mouth of the mountain road on the far- ther brink , he must have been a rash and reckless man who would have attempted to ...
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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 |
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Passatges populars
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...