The Tor Hill, Том 3

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Henry Colburn, 1826 - Всего страниц: 350
 

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Стр. 145 - Merry Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower: With solace and gladness, Much mirth and no madness, All good and no badness; So joyously, So maidenly, So womanly Her demeaning In every thing. Far, far passing That I can indite, Or suffice to write Of Merry Margaret As midsummer flower, Gentle as falcon Or hawk of the tower.
Стр. 132 - Now unthrifts riot and run in debt, upon the boldness of these places ; yea, and rich men run thither with poor men's goods; there they build, there they spend, and bid their creditors go whistle them. Men's wives run thither with their husband's plate, and say they dare not abide with their husbands for beating.
Стр. 259 - King's majesty and his succession; as by the same answers, signed with his hand, and sent to your lordship by this bearer, more plainly shall appear. And so, with as fair words as we could, we have conveyed him hence into the Tower, being but a very weak man and a sickly.
Стр. 132 - ... wives run thither with their husbands' plate, and say they dare not abide with their husbands for beating: thieves bring thither stolen goods, and live thereon. There devise they new robberies nightly, and steal out and rob...
Стр. 63 - ... faith and slavish obedience ; and the roar and dashing of opinions, loosened from their accustomed hold, might be heard like the noise of an angry sea, and has never yet subsided. Germany first broke the spell of misbegotten fear, and gave the watchword ; but England joined the shout, and echoed it back with her island voice from her thousand cliffs and craggy shores in a longer and a louder strain. With that cry the genius of Great Britain rose and threw down the gauntlet to the nations.
Стр. 327 - Waverley occasionally rises, his course is more regular, his vigour better sustained, and a more steady interest is kept up throughout. If we are less frequently astonished we are more uniformly pleased ; and if there be less energy of genius, there are, at least, equal correctness of taste, and an equal share of good sense and shrewdness of observation.
Стр. 328 - THE GERMAN NOVELISTS : Tales selected from ancient and modern Authors in that Language, from the earliest period to the close of the Eighteenth Century ; with Critical and Biographical Notices. By THOMAS ROSCOE, £iq.

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