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There's more hath past between them than belongs To Love's sweet sorrows . Old Play QR I : FEB 36 As he approached the monument of Goddard Crovan , Julian cast many an anxious glance to see whether any object visible beside the huge ...
There's more hath past between them than belongs To Love's sweet sorrows . Old Play QR I : FEB 36 As he approached the monument of Goddard Crovan , Julian cast many an anxious glance to see whether any object visible beside the huge ...
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... even of those to whom it may seem almost impossible , from circumstances , to attach a shadow of suspicion - trust not the very stones of the most secret apartment in Holm - Peel , for that which hath wings shall carry ...
... even of those to whom it may seem almost impossible , from circumstances , to attach a shadow of suspicion - trust not the very stones of the most secret apartment in Holm - Peel , for that which hath wings shall carry ...
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Heaven , that rendered the King's course of license fruitful , hath denied issue to his bed of wedlock ; and in the gloomy and stern character of his bigoted successor , we already see what sort of monareh shall .succeed to the crown of ...
Heaven , that rendered the King's course of license fruitful , hath denied issue to his bed of wedlock ; and in the gloomy and stern character of his bigoted successor , we already see what sort of monareh shall .succeed to the crown of ...
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I appeal to your own conscience , Julian Pe . veril , whether this awakening hath not been in time , since you yourself know , and none better than you , the secret but rapid strides which Rome has made to erect her Dagon of idolatry ...
I appeal to your own conscience , Julian Pe . veril , whether this awakening hath not been in time , since you yourself know , and none better than you , the secret but rapid strides which Rome has made to erect her Dagon of idolatry ...
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I must not forget , that one whose services have been in the cause incalculable , wears the garb of an English priest , and hath had Episcopal ordination . It is not for us to challenge the instrument , so that our escape is achieved ...
I must not forget , that one whose services have been in the cause incalculable , wears the garb of an English priest , and hath had Episcopal ordination . It is not for us to challenge the instrument , so that our escape is achieved ...
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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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