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See the maiden morns , And the sad suitor bends his looks on earth . 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 ...
See the maiden morns , And the sad suitor bends his looks on earth . 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 ...
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From the profusion of her tresses looked forth her small and dark , but well - formed features , together with the large and brilliant black eyes ; and her whole countenance was composed into the imploring look of one who is dubious of ...
From the profusion of her tresses looked forth her small and dark , but well - formed features , together with the large and brilliant black eyes ; and her whole countenance was composed into the imploring look of one who is dubious of ...
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With eyes that seemed red with recent tears , and with a look of the deepest dejection , the little mute , first touching her bosom , and beckoning with her finger , made to him the usual sign that the Countess desired to see him ...
With eyes that seemed red with recent tears , and with a look of the deepest dejection , the little mute , first touching her bosom , and beckoning with her finger , made to him the usual sign that the Countess desired to see him ...
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... sent you on dangers which should have been his . Go - go -May saints and angels bless you . Fenella shall acquaint him that you sup in your own apartment . So indeed will I ; for to - night I shall be unable to face my son's looks .
... sent you on dangers which should have been his . Go - go -May saints and angels bless you . Fenella shall acquaint him that you sup in your own apartment . So indeed will I ; for to - night I shall be unable to face my son's looks .
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... mingled , as the sound was , with the scream of the sea - birds ; or to traverse the apartment with long and slow steps , pausing occasionally to look out on the sea , slumbering under the influence of a full moon , which ...
... mingled , as the sound was , with the scream of the sea - birds ; or to traverse the apartment with long and slow steps , pausing occasionally to look out on the sea , slumbering under the influence of a full moon , which ...
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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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