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“ I have long feared that the well - meant zeal of our priests for increasing converts , would draw on them the suspicion of the English nation . These efforts have been renewed with double energy since the Duke of York conformed to the ...
“ I have long feared that the well - meant zeal of our priests for increasing converts , would draw on them the suspicion of the English nation . These efforts have been renewed with double energy since the Duke of York conformed to the ...
Page 191
... Duke of Bucks , that may be evidence thou wert first in town . ” I om Beacon ducked and exit ; and Lance , after having made some show of helping him to horse , ran back to tell his master the joyful intelligence , that a lucky ...
... Duke of Bucks , that may be evidence thou wert first in town . ” I om Beacon ducked and exit ; and Lance , after having made some show of helping him to horse , ran back to tell his master the joyful intelligence , that a lucky ...
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We must now transport the reader to the magnificient hotel in Street , inhabited at this time by the celebrated George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , whom Dryden has doomed to a painful immortality by the few lines which we have ...
We must now transport the reader to the magnificient hotel in Street , inhabited at this time by the celebrated George Villiers , Duke of Buckingham , whom Dryden has doomed to a painful immortality by the few lines which we have ...
Page 197
as persons of the first quality , and in that respect , rather exceeding than falling short of the Duke in personal splendour . But his anti - chamber , in particular , might be compared to a gathering of eagles to the slaughter ...
as persons of the first quality , and in that respect , rather exceeding than falling short of the Duke in personal splendour . But his anti - chamber , in particular , might be compared to a gathering of eagles to the slaughter ...
Page 198
Such , and many such like , were the morning attendants of the Duke of Buckingham - all genuine descendants of the daughter of the horse - leech , whose cry is “ Give , give . ” But the levee of his grace contained other and very ...
Such , and many such like , were the morning attendants of the Duke of Buckingham - all genuine descendants of the daughter of the horse - leech , whose cry is “ Give , give . ” But the levee of his grace contained other and very ...
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Page 194 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
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| Title | Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2 Peveril of the Peak, Walter Scott |
| Author | Walter Scott |
| Publisher | James Crissy, 1826 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 25, 2007 |
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