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... ready assistance to a legal action - bound , as a grateful and obliged friend , to respect my rights and my person →→→ thrusts himself betwixt me - me , the avenger of blood - and my lawful captive ; beats me to PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 21.
... ready assistance to a legal action - bound , as a grateful and obliged friend , to respect my rights and my person →→→ thrusts himself betwixt me - me , the avenger of blood - and my lawful captive ; beats me to PEVERIL OF THE PEAK . 21.
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... ready resource . " " But too much so , " answered Bridgenorth . " In the late times , the plate of the nobles and gentry , with that of the colleges and the sale of the crown - jewels , enabled the King to make his unhappy stand , which ...
... ready resource . " " But too much so , " answered Bridgenorth . " In the late times , the plate of the nobles and gentry , with that of the colleges and the sale of the crown - jewels , enabled the King to make his unhappy stand , which ...
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... ready in possession of a part of the town , and ex- ercising their cruelty on the few whom weighty causes or indisposition had withheld from public worship ; and it was remarked as a judgment , that , upon that bloody Sabbath , Adrian ...
... ready in possession of a part of the town , and ex- ercising their cruelty on the few whom weighty causes or indisposition had withheld from public worship ; and it was remarked as a judgment , that , upon that bloody Sabbath , Adrian ...
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... ready to have made joint cause with the Cavaliers in preventing so horrible a parricide . " " If it were so , ” replied Bridgenorth , " we have been richly rewarded by his predecessor . " " Rewarded ! " exclaimed Julian ; " Does the 10 ...
... ready to have made joint cause with the Cavaliers in preventing so horrible a parricide . " " If it were so , ” replied Bridgenorth , " we have been richly rewarded by his predecessor . " " Rewarded ! " exclaimed Julian ; " Does the 10 ...
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... ready and ingenious a draughts - woman , that , like the ancient Mexicans , she sometimes made a hasty sketch with her pencil the means of conveying her ideas , either by direct or emblematical representation . Above all , in the art of ...
... ready and ingenious a draughts - woman , that , like the ancient Mexicans , she sometimes made a hasty sketch with her pencil the means of conveying her ideas , either by direct or emblematical representation . Above all , in the art of ...
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acquainted Alice Bridgenorth ancient answered Bridgenorth answered Julian answered Peveril apartment better betwixt Black-Fort Bridlesley called captain Castle church companion countenance Countess Countess of Derby dame danger Dangerfield daugh daughter Deborah Deemster Derby Derbyshire door duty Earl Earl of Derby England exclaimed eyes faith father fear feelings Fenella Ganlesse hand hath hear heard heart Heaven Holm-Peel honour horse island Jesuit Julian Peveril King lady lence lian look madam maiden Major Bridgenorth Manx Martindale Master Bridgenorth Master Topham means mind mother night noble once passion pause person Peve poor Popish Plot present Protestant purpose racter rendered replied Bridgenorth replied Julian replied Peveril scarce secure seemed shew Sir Geoffrey smile Smith soon speak spoke stranger thee ther thing thou thought tion tone turn usual veril voice warrant White Horse Tavern young
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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...