Tales and Novels: VivianHarper & brothers, 1835 |
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admiration Alfred Percy appeared Bannow Biddy Buckhurst Caroline's Carv Carver Catty character Christy clane Clara Colonel Commissioner Falconer Count Albert Count Altenberg countenance cried daugh daughter dear drum-major Duke of Greenwich Erasmus eyes Falconer's father favour feel fortune French Clay gentleman Gilb Gilbert girl give gout Gresham hand happy hear heard heart Honor M'Bride hope Hungerford knew Lady Frances Arlington Lady Jane Granville Lady Trant ladyship letter look Lord Old Lord Oldborough Lord William lordship ma'am Mabel manner marriage married mind minister Miss Caroline Percy Miss Falconers Miss G Miss Georgiana Falconer mother never O'Bla O'Blaney Old M'B Owen passion Pat Coxe Percy family Percy's Petcalf Phil plase your honour promise rason recollect Rosamond Sir Robert Percy smile Spandrill speak sure tell Temple there's thing thought tion Tourville wish word young lady Zara
Populaire passages
Pagina 14 - Lurk'd in her hand, and mourn'd his captive Queen: He springs to Vengeance with an eager pace, And falls like thunder on the prostrate Ace. The nymph exulting fills with shouts the sky; The walls, the woods, and long canals reply. 100 Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.
Pagina 128 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ! Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, From wandering on a foreign strand...
Pagina 128 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Pagina 138 - And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
Pagina 21 - THOUGH some make slight of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone. More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels.
Pagina 230 - But who is this, what thing of sea or land ? Female of sex it seems, That, so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way, sailing...