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... once to the tale which I had actually com- menced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to search the old writing- desk ...
... once to the tale which I had actually com- menced , and accident at length threw the lost sheets in my way . I happened to want some fishing - tackle for the use of a guest , when it occurred to me to search the old writing- desk ...
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... once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether some hope of gain mixed with it , but after Dick had sold several horses in this way ...
... once ; the purchaser only stipulating that he should always come by night , and alone . I do not know whether it was from mere curiosity , or whether some hope of gain mixed with it , but after Dick had sold several horses in this way ...
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... once a king , and he wedded a young old queen , and she had a child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Sage , praying he would give it the same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel . Hereof ...
... once a king , and he wedded a young old queen , and she had a child ; and this child was sent to Solomon the Sage , praying he would give it the same blessing which he got from the witch of Endor when she bit him by the heel . Hereof ...
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... long fair hair , the very picture of a youthful Goth . This lad was always first in the charge , and last in the retreat the Achilles , at once , and Ajax , - of the Crosscauseway . He was too formidable to us GENERAL PREFACE . lxxvii.
... long fair hair , the very picture of a youthful Goth . This lad was always first in the charge , and last in the retreat the Achilles , at once , and Ajax , - of the Crosscauseway . He was too formidable to us GENERAL PREFACE . lxxvii.
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... once upon a time , when the combat was at the thickest , this plebeian champion headed a sudden charge , so rapid and furious , that all fled before him . He was several paces before his comrades , and had ac- tually laid his hands on ...
... once upon a time , when the combat was at the thickest , this plebeian champion headed a sudden charge , so rapid and furious , that all fled before him . He was several paces before his comrades , and had ac- tually laid his hands on ...
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Página 93 - Amen, amen ! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare, It is enough I may but call her mine.
Página 66 - He thought he saw an unusual blaze of light fall on the book while he was reading, which he at first imagined might happen by some accident in the candle. But lifting up his eyes, he apprehended, to his extreme amazement, that there was before him, as it were, suspended in the air, a visible representation of the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross, surrounded on all sides with a glory ; and was impressed, as if a voice, or something equivalent to a voice, had come to him, to this effect, (for he was...
Página lvii - Waken, lords and ladies gay, On the mountain dawns the day; All the jolly chase is here, With hawk and horse and hunting-spear Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, "Waken, lords and ladies gay.
Página 114 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it: Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. " Do the verses he sings," asked Waverley, " belong to old Scottish poetry, Miss Bradwardine ? " " I believe not,
Página lviii - You shall see him brought to bay; ' Waken, lords and ladies gay.' Louder, louder chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay! Tell them youth and mirth and glee Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman! who can baulk, Stanch as hound and fleet as hawk; Think of this, and rise with day Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Página 31 - ... he had read, and stored in a memory of uncommon tenacity, much curious, though ill-arranged and miscellaneous information. In English literature he was master of Shakspeare and Milton, of our earlier dramatic authors ; of many picturesque and interesting passages from our old historical chronicles ; and was particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction...
Página 38 - was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess [those sitting above the salt-vat], instead of porridge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth.