Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... spoke , showed that his words came straight from his heart , and were true to the very letter . But if he did indeed regret the obligation under which he was placed to one who seemed so hateful to him as the stranger , he was soon in a ...
... spoke , showed that his words came straight from his heart , and were true to the very letter . But if he did indeed regret the obligation under which he was placed to one who seemed so hateful to him as the stranger , he was soon in a ...
Pàgina 17
... spoke of guerdon - of the price of blood ; " answered O'Brien , with unchanged contempt in both voice and manner- " and not of advice or atonement . If of the first , I say , as I said before , ask and receive ! If of the latter , I am ...
... spoke of guerdon - of the price of blood ; " answered O'Brien , with unchanged contempt in both voice and manner- " and not of advice or atonement . If of the first , I say , as I said before , ask and receive ! If of the latter , I am ...
Pàgina 19
... spoke , he turned away disdainfully , without giving the slightest heed to the eager vehemence with which O'Neil stepped forward to address him , set his foot in the stirrup , and grasping the mane of his fine bay blood - horse with his ...
... spoke , he turned away disdainfully , without giving the slightest heed to the eager vehemence with which O'Neil stepped forward to address him , set his foot in the stirrup , and grasping the mane of his fine bay blood - horse with his ...
Pàgina 23
... spoke , to the eldest of his cousins , Con O'Brien , for his perusal , " bear date of the sixth day of June . This day is the twentieth of July . Strange that we have not heard of this sooner . " " Not strange at all , " replied O'Neil ...
... spoke , to the eldest of his cousins , Con O'Brien , for his perusal , " bear date of the sixth day of June . This day is the twentieth of July . Strange that we have not heard of this sooner . " " Not strange at all , " replied O'Neil ...
Pàgina 38
... spoke , he extended his hand cordially , and in the warmth and fervor of his high and noble heart , Dermot O'Brien grasped it , and wrung it cordially , in the full sight of all his half - astonished , yet rejoicing vassals . For the ...
... spoke , he extended his hand cordially , and in the warmth and fervor of his high and noble heart , Dermot O'Brien grasped it , and wrung it cordially , in the full sight of all his half - astonished , yet rejoicing vassals . For the ...
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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...