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Page 59
... Castle - Rushin be- fore the night sat down . Here he found all in movement . The Count- ess , with her son , had , upon some news received , or resolution formed , during his absence , remo- ved , with a principal part of their family ...
... Castle - Rushin be- fore the night sat down . Here he found all in movement . The Count- ess , with her son , had , upon some news received , or resolution formed , during his absence , remo- ved , with a principal part of their family ...
Page 60
... Castle - town ; nay , unless assailed regularly , was almost impregnable ; and was always held by a garrison belonging to the Lords of Man . Here Peveril arrived at night - fall . He was told in the fishing village , that the night ...
... Castle - town ; nay , unless assailed regularly , was almost impregnable ; and was always held by a garrison belonging to the Lords of Man . Here Peveril arrived at night - fall . He was told in the fishing village , that the night ...
Page 61
... castle to which our Julian directed his course early on the preceding morning , is one of those singular monuments of antiquity with which this singular and interesting island abounds . It occupies the whole of a high rocky peninsula ...
... castle to which our Julian directed his course early on the preceding morning , is one of those singular monuments of antiquity with which this singular and interesting island abounds . It occupies the whole of a high rocky peninsula ...
Page 62
... castle itself , two cathedral churches , dedicated , the ear- lier to Saint Patrick , the later to Saint Ger- main ; besides two smaller churches ; all of which had become , even in that day , more or less ruin- ous . Their decayed ...
... castle itself , two cathedral churches , dedicated , the ear- lier to Saint Patrick , the later to Saint Ger- main ; besides two smaller churches ; all of which had become , even in that day , more or less ruin- ous . Their decayed ...
Page 63
... castle . Superstition , too , had her tales of fairies , ghosts , and spectres -her legends of saints and demons , of fairies and of familiar spirits , which in no corner of the Bri- tish empire are told and received with more abso ...
... castle . Superstition , too , had her tales of fairies , ghosts , and spectres -her legends of saints and demons , of fairies and of familiar spirits , which in no corner of the Bri- tish empire are told and received with more abso ...
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Page 227 - Then again for pathos, where will you mend the dying scene of Arcite ? Alas, my heartis queen ! alas, my wife ! Giver at once, and ender of my life. What is this world ? — What axen men to have ? Now with his love — now in his cold grave Alone, withouten other company. But I tire you, sir; and do injustice to the poet whom I remember but by halves.
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