Kenilworth, Volum 2

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Estes, 1893
 

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Pàgina 34 - Perfume for a lady's chamber ; Golden quoifs and stomachers, For my lads to give their dears: Pins and poking-sticks of steel. What maids lack from head to heel: Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy; Buy, lads, or else your lasses cry : Come buy.
Pàgina 269 - And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe...
Pàgina 229 - As she advanced, she became doubtful whether she beheld a statue, or a form of flesh and blood. The unfortunate Amy, indeed, remained motionless, betwixt the desire which she had to make her condition known to one of her own sex, and her awe for the stately form which approached her, and which, though her eyes had never before beheld, her fears instantly suspected to be the personage she really was. Amy had arisen from her...
Pàgina 349 - Amy patiently promised that she would resign herself to her fate, and Foster returned to his hardened compan ion with his conscience half-eased of the perilous load that weighed on it.
Pàgina 365 - As for example, when his lordship was in full hope to marry her majesty, and his own wife stood in his light, as he supposed, he did but send her aside to the house of his servant, Forster of...
Pàgina 128 - SNUG. Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it be, give it me, for I am slow of study. QUINCE. You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.
Pàgina 1 - Seize with firm hand the reins, ere thy opponent Anticipate thee, and himself make conquest Of the now empty seat. The moment comes, It is already here, when thou must write The absolute total of thy life's vast sum. The constellations stand victorious o'er thee, The planets shoot good fortune in fair junctions, And tell thee,
Pàgina 121 - I were once rid of this peril," thought he, " and if any man shall find me playing squire of the body to a damoselerrant, he shall have leave to beat my brains out with my own sledge-hammer !" At length the princely Castle appeared, upon improving which, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand pounds sterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which...
Pàgina 361 - Here lies a valiant warriour, Who never drew a sword ; Here lies a noble courtier, Who never kept his word ; Here lies the Earle of Leister, Who govern'd the estates, Whom the earth could never living love, And the just Heaven now hates.
Pàgina 119 - Wayland, who, with great address, now threaded his way through the general throng of passengers, now stood still until a favourable opportunity occurred of again moving forward, and frequently turning altogether out of the direct road, followed some circuitous by-path, which brought them into the highway again, after having given them the opportunity of traversing a considerable way with greater ease and rapidity. It was thus he avoided Warwick, within whose Castle (that fairest monument of ancient...

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