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... mind ; and it were a more worthy exercise of that despotic power over the imagination , so eminently possessed by the Great Unknown , to embalm the remembrance of two such men in his immortal pages , than to load their memories with ...
... mind ; and it were a more worthy exercise of that despotic power over the imagination , so eminently possessed by the Great Unknown , to embalm the remembrance of two such men in his immortal pages , than to load their memories with ...
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... mind , I fell into a fit of musing , which is not uncommon with me after dinner , when I am altogether alone , or have no one with me but my curate . I was awake , however ; for I remember seeing , in the embers of the fire , a ...
... mind , I fell into a fit of musing , which is not uncommon with me after dinner , when I am altogether alone , or have no one with me but my curate . I was awake , however ; for I remember seeing , in the embers of the fire , a ...
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... mind of the more careless reader remains satisfied with the light perusal he has afforded to a tale of fiction , he ... minds of a low and incurious description ; but , on the contrary , comprehends many persons otherwise of high talents ...
... mind of the more careless reader remains satisfied with the light perusal he has afforded to a tale of fiction , he ... minds of a low and incurious description ; but , on the contrary , comprehends many persons otherwise of high talents ...
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... mind to the effort necessary to see his infant ; and though separated by so short a distance from the being in whose existence he was more interested than in anything the world afforded , he only made himself acquainted with the windows ...
... mind to the effort necessary to see his infant ; and though separated by so short a distance from the being in whose existence he was more interested than in anything the world afforded , he only made himself acquainted with the windows ...
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... mind has been harassed with anticipations of impending calamity , which it may please God to avert in your case as it has done in mine ; and here comes a sight that bears good assurance of it . " The door of the apartment opened as she ...
... mind has been harassed with anticipations of impending calamity , which it may please God to avert in your case as it has done in mine ; and here comes a sight that bears good assurance of it . " The door of the apartment opened as she ...
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acquainted Alice Bridgenorth amongst answered apartment appearance arms betwixt blood called Cavaliers Charles Chiffinch companion countenance Countess of Derby Court Dame danger Deemster Derbyshire desire door Duchess of Portsmouth Duke of Buckingham Duke of Ormond dwarf Earl Earl of Derby England eyes father favour fear Fenella followed Ganlesse gentleman give Grace hand hast hath hear heard Heaven honour horse island Isle Jerningham Julian Peveril justice King King's Knight Lady Peveril ladyship Lance London looked Lord madam Majesty Major Bridgenorth manner Martindale Castle Master Bridgenorth means mind neighbour never noble occasion once Ormond party Peel Castle person pleasure Plot poor Popish Popish Plot present prisoner Puritan replied Roundheads scarce seemed Sir Geoffrey Peveril smile Solsgrace speak spoke stood stranger sword tell thee thou thought tone turned voice William Christian woman word young
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Page 503 - There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 284 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 132 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 494 - I thence walked with him through St. James's Park to the garden, where I both saw and heard a very familiar discourse between and Mrs. Nelly, f as they called an impudent comedian, she looking out of her garden on a terrace at the top of the wall, and standing on the green walk under it. I was heartily sorry at this scene.
Page 37 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For dame Religion, as for punk ; Whose honesty they all durst swear for...
Page 492 - this I can say, that the duchess never told me a syllable of the matter, and I believe her grace would keep nothing a secret from me. This you may depend on as a fact, that the next morning my lord duke cried out three times to his valet-de-chambre, Jernigan ! Jernigan ! Jernigan ! bring me my garters.