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Page 5
... fear , of my cha- racter you abuse the influence you possess over the simple person to whom I am intrusted - All this you do , and think to make it up by low re- verences , and constrained courtesy ! Is this ho- nourable , or is it fair ...
... fear , of my cha- racter you abuse the influence you possess over the simple person to whom I am intrusted - All this you do , and think to make it up by low re- verences , and constrained courtesy ! Is this ho- nourable , or is it fair ...
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... . ” " I do not panegyrise him , " answered Bridge- north ; " I speak but truth of that extraordinary man , now being dead , whom , when alive , I fear- ed not to withstand to his face . It is 36 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .:
... . ” " I do not panegyrise him , " answered Bridge- north ; " I speak but truth of that extraordinary man , now being dead , whom , when alive , I fear- ed not to withstand to his face . It is 36 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .:
Page 38
... fears to wa ken , and whose delight is mingled with wonder and with uncertainty , Julian Peveril found him- self seated between Alice Bridgenorth and her father - the being he most loved on earth , and the person whom he had ever ...
... fears to wa ken , and whose delight is mingled with wonder and with uncertainty , Julian Peveril found him- self seated between Alice Bridgenorth and her father - the being he most loved on earth , and the person whom he had ever ...
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... Fear ye that the God we serve will give you up to yon- der heathen dogs ? Follow me , and you shall see this day that there is a captain in Israel ! ' He uttered a few brief but distinct orders , in the tone of one who was accustomed to ...
... Fear ye that the God we serve will give you up to yon- der heathen dogs ? Follow me , and you shall see this day that there is a captain in Israel ! ' He uttered a few brief but distinct orders , in the tone of one who was accustomed to ...
Page 52
... fear not thy betraying what I might tell thee in private discourse ; and besides , wert thou so base , the prey lies too distant for any hunters to whom thou couldst point out its traces . But 52 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
... fear not thy betraying what I might tell thee in private discourse ; and besides , wert thou so base , the prey lies too distant for any hunters to whom thou couldst point out its traces . But 52 PEVERIL OF THE PEAK .
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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...