Peveril of the Peak, Volume 2James Crissy, 1826 - Great Britain |
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Page 34
... secure hand , they do but anticipate their own utter ruin , and ours- so general is the depression , so universal the de- spair . " " But the King , " said Peveril , " the King and the Protestant royalists - what say they to this ...
... secure hand , they do but anticipate their own utter ruin , and ours- so general is the depression , so universal the de- spair . " " But the King , " said Peveril , " the King and the Protestant royalists - what say they to this ...
Page 43
... secure success , how many occurrences might take place to render his meditation necessary to Bridgenorth ; and thus enable him , on the most equal and ho- nourable terms , to establish a claim to his gratitude and to his daughter's hand ...
... secure success , how many occurrences might take place to render his meditation necessary to Bridgenorth ; and thus enable him , on the most equal and ho- nourable terms , to establish a claim to his gratitude and to his daughter's hand ...
Page 48
... secure minister of her pleasure on this occasion . He felt something like impro- priety in this selection ; and it was with a feeling of impatience alien to the natural generosity of his tem- per , that , when he opened the door , he ...
... secure minister of her pleasure on this occasion . He felt something like impro- priety in this selection ; and it was with a feeling of impatience alien to the natural generosity of his tem- per , that , when he opened the door , he ...
Page 49
... secure his pistols in his belt , wrap his cloak closer around him , and take his small portmantle under his arm . Thus accoutred , he followed her out of the Keep , or inhabited part of the Castle , by a series of obscure passages ...
... secure his pistols in his belt , wrap his cloak closer around him , and take his small portmantle under his arm . Thus accoutred , he followed her out of the Keep , or inhabited part of the Castle , by a series of obscure passages ...
Page 54
... secure the blessings of domestic peace - to discharge a bold and perilous duty to his friend and patron - to re- gard his passion for Alice Bridgenorth , as the load- star which was to guide him to noble deeds — were the resolutions ...
... secure the blessings of domestic peace - to discharge a bold and perilous duty to his friend and patron - to re- gard his passion for Alice Bridgenorth , as the load- star which was to guide him to noble deeds — were the resolutions ...
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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.