The novels and romances of A.E. Bray, Volume 61845 |
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Amias Radcliffe arms Bevil Grenville blood called Captain Butler Captain Coleman Carisbrook Castle cause child church circumstance Colonel Holborn Cornet Davy countenance court cried Dame Gee danger dare dark Dartmoor daughter death Devon door exclaimed father fear feelings Gabriel gentleman Gertrude give godfather hand head hear heard heart heaven Hezekiah honour hope horse hour housekeeper king lady Lidford lived looked manner Master Amias mind Mistress Agnes Mistress Foretop Mistress Raleigh Mount Edgcumbe murder never night once parliament person Plymouth prisoner racter Reginald Elford replied Robina Roger Rowle Roundhead royalists seemed seen Sheepstor shewed Sir Hugh Piper Sir John Copplestone Sir Marmaduke Sir Piers Edgcumbe Sir Walter Sir William Bastard speak spirit spoke sprig of rosemary stood Tamerton Tamerton Foliot tell thee things thou thought Trelawny trust turned voice Warleigh whilst woman words young
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Page 155 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Page 14 - But alas! for his country — her pride is gone by, And that spirit is broken, which never would bend; O'er the ruin her children in secret must sigh, For 'tis treason to love her, and death to defend.
Page 367 - 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...
Page 357 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 30 - Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 212 - For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 89 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 415 - The cease of majesty Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw What's near it with it : it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin.
Page 259 - Still sways their souls with that commanding art That dazzles, leads, yet chills the vulgar heart. What is that spell, that thus his lawless train Confess and envy, yet oppose in vain? What should it be, that thus their faith can bind? The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Page 96 - I do remember him at Clement's Inn, like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring : when he was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife...