Walter Colyton: A Tale of 1688, Volum 3

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H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830
 

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Pàgina 225 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! If it be you that stir these daughters...
Pàgina 37 - Alas, Dissolve, my life ! let not my sense unsettle, Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself! Oh, state of nature, fail together in me, Since thy best props are warp'd! — So! which way now ? The best way is the next way to a grave : Each errant step beside is torment. Lo, The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the...
Pàgina 328 - Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Pàgina 245 - How they swarm together ! what a hum they raise ! — Devils choke your wild throats ! If a man had need to use their valours, he must pay a brokage for it, and then bring 'em on, and they will fight like sheep.
Pàgina 75 - Twill be styled lawful, and we shall give laws To those that now command us : Stop not at Or loyalty, or duty ¡ bold ambition To dare, and power to do, gave the first difference Between the king and subject Cœsar's motto, Aut Cœsar aut niiiil, each of us must claim, And use it as our own.
Pàgina 245 - I received you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self was yours; you might have...
Pàgina 255 - And there is none of you but will easily believe me, who have suffered for conscience sake, incapable of so great a villany to the prejudice of my own children, and I thank God that those who know me, know well that it is my principle to do as I would be done by, for that is the law and the prophets; and I would rather die a thousand deaths than do the least wrong to any of my children.
Pàgina 314 - This is wonderful ! married, and yet in raptures. Vil. Oh ! when you all get wives, and such as mine, (If such another woman can be found) You will rave too, dote on the dear content , And prattle in their praise out of all bounds. Enter ISABELLA and Child. My Isabella! Oh, the joy of my heart, That...
Pàgina 236 - Flanders steeds, managed and used to war, in head-pieces, back and breast, bright armour. 2. Two hundred blacks brought from the plantations of the Netherlands in America, having on embroidered caps lined with white fur, and plumes of white feathers, to attend the horse. 3.

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