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... seen wind- ing down the gorges , and the Colonel would soon have an oppor- tunity of judging how they could use them . The Colonel , rejoicing that he had sent out these scouts at so apt a moment , and determined to wait for the enemy ...
... seen wind- ing down the gorges , and the Colonel would soon have an oppor- tunity of judging how they could use them . The Colonel , rejoicing that he had sent out these scouts at so apt a moment , and determined to wait for the enemy ...
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... seen from their position , and tell what we have discovered to Colonel Grey . You know where to find him ! Quick ! " Usually it was a vain order to bid Tom Harvey be quick ; but when it was a question of Irish Papists , he could shake ...
... seen from their position , and tell what we have discovered to Colonel Grey . You know where to find him ! Quick ! " Usually it was a vain order to bid Tom Harvey be quick ; but when it was a question of Irish Papists , he could shake ...
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... seen immediately afterwards to fall off his horse on the meadow , an answering shriek of horror and wrath going up from every Gaelic throat as the rebels saw their chief go down . Frantic efforts were made to reach him and carry him off ...
... seen immediately afterwards to fall off his horse on the meadow , an answering shriek of horror and wrath going up from every Gaelic throat as the rebels saw their chief go down . Frantic efforts were made to reach him and carry him off ...
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... seen that I didn't like the sketch : he found it impossible to reconcile the present fashions with the exigencies of art ; he had given me a bad posé - he should have to begin everything over again ; and it happened that this winter he ...
... seen that I didn't like the sketch : he found it impossible to reconcile the present fashions with the exigencies of art ; he had given me a bad posé - he should have to begin everything over again ; and it happened that this winter he ...
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... seen in sweet summer's dreams ; For sleeping in its bed of snow , Nor rock , nor stone , was ever known ; But only shining , shifting sands , For ever sifted by unseen hands . ( It moved , it bent , like Indian bow 60 Joaquin Miller's ...
... seen in sweet summer's dreams ; For sleeping in its bed of snow , Nor rock , nor stone , was ever known ; But only shining , shifting sands , For ever sifted by unseen hands . ( It moved , it bent , like Indian bow 60 Joaquin Miller's ...
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Page 499 - One fatal remembrance, one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes, To which life nothing darker or brighter can bring, For which joy has no balm and affliction no sting...
Page 629 - Till grown more frugal in his riper days, He paid some bards with port, and some with praise, To some a dry rehearsal was assign'd, And others (harder still) he paid in kind. Dryden alone (what wonder?) came not nigh, Dryden alone escaped this judging eye: But still the great have kindness in reserve, He help'd to bury whom he help'd to starve.
Page 270 - This is a relation that will beget some wonder, and it well may ; for most of our world are at present possessed with an opinion that visions and miracles are ceased. And, though it is most certain that two lutes, being both strung and tuned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other...
Page 272 - To whom the good man replied, ' My dear George, if saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me, but labour, (as indeed I do daily) to submit mine to His will, and possess my soul in patience, and peace.
Page 633 - Pope,' insinuating that I was whipped in Ham Walks on Thursday last : — -This is to give notice, that I did not stir out of my house at Twickenham on that day ; and the same is a malicious and ill-founded report. — AP...
Page 276 - This was a fair preparation for a marriage, but alas ! her father died before Mr. Herbert's retirement to Dauntsey ; yet some friends to both parties procured their meeting, at which time a mutual affection entered into both their hearts, as a conqueror enters into a surprised city ; and love having got such possession, governed and made there such laws and resolutions as neither party was able to resist, insomuch that she changed her name into Herbert the third day after this first interview.
Page 271 - ... rest and quietness, or any other means could be used to make him able to preach his Sunday's Sermon : but a warm bed, and rest, and drink proper for a cold, given him by Mrs. Churchman, and her diligent attendance added unto it, enabled him to perform the office of the day, which was in, or about the year 1581.
Page 632 - Grecian parents, and his father, consequently, had, by law, had the absolute disposal of him, his life had been no longer than that of one of his poems, the life of half a day. Let the person of a gentleman of his parts be never so contemptible, his inward man is ten times more ridiculous; it being impossible that his outward form, though it be that of a downright monkey, should differ so much from human shape, as his unthinking, immaterial part does from human understanding.
Page 268 - Trouble not yourself any more about the matter; for I was born in this religion, I have lived in this religion, and in this religion I am resolved to die.
Page 271 - God's disfavour; for he was a virtuous man. I shall not yet give the like testimony of his wife, but leave the reader to judge by what follows. But to this house Mr. Hooker came so wet, so weary, and weatherbeaten, that he was never known to express more passion, than against a friend that dissuaded him from footing it to London, and for finding him no easier an horse, (supposing the horse trotted when he did not;) and at this time also, such a faintness and fear possessed him, that he would not...