Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 9
... reached his ear , but , seeing the nature of the ground , and its impracticable character for the surest - footed horse , sprang from his saddle in hot haste , flung his bridle - rein over the gnarled bough of an oak stump , and ...
... reached his ear , but , seeing the nature of the ground , and its impracticable character for the surest - footed horse , sprang from his saddle in hot haste , flung his bridle - rein over the gnarled bough of an oak stump , and ...
Pàgina 24
... reached the camp . " " Have you been in the camp , O'Neil ? —and how are you not there in safety ? " 66 ' I was in safety while there was a camp , but- " There was a camp . In our Lady's name ! what mean you ? Speak ! man , speak ...
... reached the camp . " " Have you been in the camp , O'Neil ? —and how are you not there in safety ? " 66 ' I was in safety while there was a camp , but- " There was a camp . In our Lady's name ! what mean you ? Speak ! man , speak ...
Pàgina 41
... reached the bottom , and a broad black pool lay before them , with a few wreaths of foam floating round and round in its whirling eddies , and embossing its dark surface , like spume flakes on the glossy hide of a coal - black charger ...
... reached the bottom , and a broad black pool lay before them , with a few wreaths of foam floating round and round in its whirling eddies , and embossing its dark surface , like spume flakes on the glossy hide of a coal - black charger ...
Pàgina 45
... reached it . A little higher up , O'Neil ! —a little higher up , I say ! " he added , riding a little way up the bank toward the cataract , be- fore entering the water . " So shall you have space to allow for the drift of the brook ...
... reached it . A little higher up , O'Neil ! —a little higher up , I say ! " he added , riding a little way up the bank toward the cataract , be- fore entering the water . " So shall you have space to allow for the drift of the brook ...
Pàgina 59
... reached the door of the room in which they sat . They all three rose on the entrance of their lady , and cour- tesied gracefully , and with more of a lady - like demeanor than we should now expect from mere servant maidens ; but at that ...
... reached the door of the room in which they sat . They all three rose on the entrance of their lady , and cour- tesied gracefully , and with more of a lady - like demeanor than we should now expect from mere servant maidens ; but at that ...
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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...