Tales of my landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Том 4 |
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... exclaimed Burley , ad- dressing himself to Macbriar ; " the base , mean - spirited traitor , to curry favour for himself with the government , hath set at liberty the prisoner taken by my own right hand , through means of whom , I have ...
... exclaimed Burley , ad- dressing himself to Macbriar ; " the base , mean - spirited traitor , to curry favour for himself with the government , hath set at liberty the prisoner taken by my own right hand , through means of whom , I have ...
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... exclaiming to those of the other party , in the words of the Patri- arch , " Let there be no strife , I pray thee , between me and thee , and between thy herdsmen and my herdsmen , for we be brethren . " - No pacific overture could pos ...
... exclaiming to those of the other party , in the words of the Patri- arch , " Let there be no strife , I pray thee , between me and thee , and between thy herdsmen and my herdsmen , for we be brethren . " - No pacific overture could pos ...
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... exclaimed to Burley , who , exhausted with his vain exertions to restore order , was now leaning on his sword , and regarding the confusion with an eye of resolute despair ... i " It means , " he replied , " that God has 8 delivered us ...
... exclaimed to Burley , who , exhausted with his vain exertions to restore order , was now leaning on his sword , and regarding the confusion with an eye of resolute despair ... i " It means , " he replied , " that God has 8 delivered us ...
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... exclaimed , springing to the pulpit which Mucklewrath had been compelled to eva- cuate by actual exhaustion " I bring from the enemy an offer to treat , if you incline to lay down your arms . I can insure you the means of making an ...
... exclaimed , springing to the pulpit which Mucklewrath had been compelled to eva- cuate by actual exhaustion " I bring from the enemy an offer to treat , if you incline to lay down your arms . I can insure you the means of making an ...
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... exclaiming , - " To your tents , O Israel ! " Morton , who beheld the columns of the enemy already beginning to appear ... exclaimed , - " Silence your sense- less clamours , yonder is the enemy ! On maintaining the bridge against him de ...
... exclaiming , - " To your tents , O Israel ! " Morton , who beheld the columns of the enemy already beginning to appear ... exclaimed , - " Silence your sense- less clamours , yonder is the enemy ! On maintaining the bridge against him de ...
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Страница 24 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Страница 89 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Страница 46 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Страница 339 - ... tea, which, though excellent hyson, is necessarily weaker and more insipid in the last cup. N"ow, as I think the one is by no means improved by the luscious lump of half-dissolved sugar usually found at the bottom of it, so I am of opinion that a history, growing already vapid, is but dully crutched up by a detail of circumstances which every reader must have anticipated, even though the author exhaust on them every flowery epithet in the language.
Страница 95 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear— that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
Страница 95 - ... die — it has struck — you are alive and safe, and the lot has fallen on those fellows who were to murder you. — It is not the expiring pang that is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him, like the long train of light that follows the sunken sun — that is all which is worth caring for, which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble.