Peveril of the Peak

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T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1898 - 495 páginas
 

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Página 263 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página 290 - 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.
Página 6 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 302 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 554 - ... together ; the neighbours, out of curiosity, have often looked in at the window to see how he behaved when alone ; which whenever they did, they Were sure to find him laughing, and in the utmost delight. This made them judge that he was not without company more pleasing to him than any mortals could be ; and what made this conjecture seem the more reasonable, waS, that if he were left ever so dirty, the woman, at her return, saw him with a clean face, and his hair combed with the utmost exactness...
Página 92 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Página 5 - Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us, that are squires of the night's body, be called thieves of the day's beauty ; let us be — Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : And let men say, we be men of good government ; being governed as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress, the moon; under whose countenance we steal.
Página 197 - Grimalkin in the fairy tale, and playing on the fiddle for the more grace, announced that John Whitecraft united the two honest occupations of landlord and miller, and, doubtless, took toll from the public in both capacities. Such a place promised a traveller who journeyed incognito, safer, if not better accommodation than he was like to meet with in more frequented inns; and at the door of the Cat and Fiddle, Julian halted accordingly. CHAPTER XXI. In these distracted times, when each man dreads...

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