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Page 38
... Dame Debo- rah ; who , seated with them at table in her qua lity of gouvernante , now dispensed the good things which had been prepared under her own eye . As for Alice , she seemed to have formed a re- solution to play the mute ; for ...
... Dame Debo- rah ; who , seated with them at table in her qua lity of gouvernante , now dispensed the good things which had been prepared under her own eye . As for Alice , she seemed to have formed a re- solution to play the mute ; for ...
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Walter Scott. excepting briefly , to the questions of Dame Deb- bitch ; nay , even when her father , which happen- ed once or twice , attempted to bring her forward in the conversation , she made no further reply than respect for him ...
Walter Scott. excepting briefly , to the questions of Dame Deb- bitch ; nay , even when her father , which happen- ed once or twice , attempted to bring her forward in the conversation , she made no further reply than respect for him ...
Page 79
... ? " 66 Marry , thus it is , " said the Earl : " I need not bid you remember the affair of Colonel Chris- tian . That man , besides his widow , who is pos sessed of large property - Dame Christian of Kirk - PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 79.
... ? " 66 Marry , thus it is , " said the Earl : " I need not bid you remember the affair of Colonel Chris- tian . That man , besides his widow , who is pos sessed of large property - Dame Christian of Kirk - PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 79.
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Walter Scott. sessed of large property - Dame Christian of Kirk - Truagh , whom you have often heard of , and perhaps seen - left a brother called Edward Christian , whom you never saw at all . Now this brother - but ... Dame Christian of ...
Walter Scott. sessed of large property - Dame Christian of Kirk - Truagh , whom you have often heard of , and perhaps seen - left a brother called Edward Christian , whom you never saw at all . Now this brother - but ... Dame Christian of ...
Page 119
... dame . " " Can you speak thus , Alice ? " said her lover . " Can you use such expressions ? and are you not sensible that they shew plainly it is your own pride , not regard for me , that makes you resist the happiness of both ? ” " Not ...
... dame . " " Can you speak thus , Alice ? " said her lover . " Can you use such expressions ? and are you not sensible that they shew plainly it is your own pride , not regard for me , that makes you resist the happiness of both ? ” " Not ...
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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.
Page 218 - What made our poet meddle with a plot ? Was't that he fancied, for the very sake And name of plot, his trifling play might take ? For there's not in't one inch-board evidence...