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Pàgina 41
... dreadful no- toriety from his participation in the murder of the young Duke of Brittany , and who was at that time ( although a mere adventurer in England , with nothing but his sword and un- scrupulous conscience to recommend him ) ...
... dreadful no- toriety from his participation in the murder of the young Duke of Brittany , and who was at that time ( although a mere adventurer in England , with nothing but his sword and un- scrupulous conscience to recommend him ) ...
Pàgina 76
... dreadful sight presented itself . No living tenant was to be seen , but the horrid smell of a charnel - house pervaded the cell , and as the blue and faint light which , like the lightning of a summer's eve , streamed from one of the ...
... dreadful sight presented itself . No living tenant was to be seen , but the horrid smell of a charnel - house pervaded the cell , and as the blue and faint light which , like the lightning of a summer's eve , streamed from one of the ...
Pàgina 78
... , it was found to hold the remains of a pilgrim who had taken shelter in the harbinge , and who having been suspected of dying of the plague , had been buried with dreadful haste the night be- fore . It 78 JOHN OF ENGLAND .
... , it was found to hold the remains of a pilgrim who had taken shelter in the harbinge , and who having been suspected of dying of the plague , had been buried with dreadful haste the night be- fore . It 78 JOHN OF ENGLAND .
Pàgina 79
Henry Curling. buried with dreadful haste the night be- fore . It was in vain , indeed , that the young Esquire ransacked the entire grange , from vault to ceiling , and endeavoured by threats and pro- mised bribes to elicit from the ...
Henry Curling. buried with dreadful haste the night be- fore . It was in vain , indeed , that the young Esquire ransacked the entire grange , from vault to ceiling , and endeavoured by threats and pro- mised bribes to elicit from the ...
Pàgina 284
... he has fallen in yonder dreadful scene of strife . I had rather lose my right hand than that page should suffer harm . " As the young Lord neared the combatants , he beheld a lady mounted in the midst of the 284 JOHN OF ENGLAND .
... he has fallen in yonder dreadful scene of strife . I had rather lose my right hand than that page should suffer harm . " As the young Lord neared the combatants , he beheld a lady mounted in the midst of the 284 JOHN OF ENGLAND .
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Pàgina 56 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Pàgina 144 - I have of late— but wherefore I know not— lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Pàgina 280 - The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse, Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels ; And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down, The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out The triumph of his pledge.
Pàgina 107 - John. It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Pàgina 154 - . when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done...
Pàgina 61 - Upon the middle of the night, Waking she heard the night-fowl crow: The cock sung out an hour ere light: From the dark fen the oxen's low Came to her: without hope of change, In sleep she seem'd to walk forlorn, Till cold winds woke the gray-eyed morn About the lonely moated grange. She only said, The day is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Pàgina 250 - Subtle as Sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
Pàgina 278 - s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design, Moves like a ghost.
Pàgina 80 - Old faces glimmer'd thro' the doors, Old footsteps trod the upper floors, Old voices called her from without. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not...
Pàgina 278 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th...