Dermot O'Brien, Or, The Taking of Tredagh: A Tale of 1649Stringer & Townsend, 1849 - 166 pàgines |
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Pàgina 17
... 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 a soldier - not a preacher . Your new friends , I have 2 heard tell , are both ! —and doubtless ...
... 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 a soldier - not a preacher . Your new friends , I have 2 heard tell , are both ! —and doubtless ...
Pàgina 34
... Voices are not heard unless hands are nigh ; and willing hands find ready weapons . " " I know both the O'Brien , and the O'Brien's country ! " was the short , stern reply ; for the man was not alarmed , but startled only , and had ...
... Voices are not heard unless hands are nigh ; and willing hands find ready weapons . " " I know both the O'Brien , and the O'Brien's country ! " was the short , stern reply ; for the man was not alarmed , but startled only , and had ...
Pàgina 35
... voice of the great O'Brien , who , attracted by the loud tones and impassioned ac- cents of the angry speakers , had turned just in time to anticipate a catastrophe ; for the blade of a long , keen knife was already glittering and ...
... voice of the great O'Brien , who , attracted by the loud tones and impassioned ac- cents of the angry speakers , had turned just in time to anticipate a catastrophe ; for the blade of a long , keen knife was already glittering and ...
Pàgina 36
... voice to its natural pitch , and said boldly : " Safe for this night , my lord earl ! And is that the extent of your power , or of your will only , I beseech you ? And shall I not be safe to - morrow ? For if the latter be your meaning ...
... voice to its natural pitch , and said boldly : " Safe for this night , my lord earl ! And is that the extent of your power , or of your will only , I beseech you ? And shall I not be safe to - morrow ? For if the latter be your meaning ...
Pàgina 37
... voice , speaking of things most ruinous to the cause which thou now callest thine . Thine eye is enkindled even now with the wolfish - blood- thirst of the Puritan gladiator ; thy voice exulteth as thou wert enraptured at the success of ...
... voice , speaking of things most ruinous to the cause which thou now callest thine . Thine eye is enkindled even now with the wolfish - blood- thirst of the Puritan gladiator ; thy voice exulteth as thou wert enraptured at the success of ...
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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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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...