The Last of the Plantagenets: An Historical Romance Illustrating Some of the Public Events, and Domestic and Ecclesiastical Manners, of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Volumen 2J & J Harper, 1829 |
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... hear it hastily passing away , let me go on whilst life is left unto me . - Hunger . had now assailed me like a mighty foe , and sleeping and waking , night and day , I vainly looked around and clamoured for food ; almost maddened at ...
... hear it hastily passing away , let me go on whilst life is left unto me . - Hunger . had now assailed me like a mighty foe , and sleeping and waking , night and day , I vainly looked around and clamoured for food ; almost maddened at ...
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... hear them . Yet was his look high and stately , and his face lighted up with that unearthly lustre , which spake eloquently of a peace of mind , that his speech could but imperfectly give utterance to . But full soon came the last ...
... hear them . Yet was his look high and stately , and his face lighted up with that unearthly lustre , which spake eloquently of a peace of mind , that his speech could but imperfectly give utterance to . But full soon came the last ...
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... hear- ing of William Cowper , Esq . Clerk of the Parliament , on May 8th , 1728 ; by whom it is preserved in a letter dated Hertingfordbury Park , August 9th , 1737 . door , which opened with a very hard spring upon LAST OF THE ...
... hear- ing of William Cowper , Esq . Clerk of the Parliament , on May 8th , 1728 ; by whom it is preserved in a letter dated Hertingfordbury Park , August 9th , 1737 . door , which opened with a very hard spring upon LAST OF THE ...
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... hear , yet do I trust that he ended his life in peace , al- though in exile ; for this will I say of him for mine own part , and this doth he well deserve of my report , that the blessing of him that was ready to perish was upon him ...
... hear , yet do I trust that he ended his life in peace , al- though in exile ; for this will I say of him for mine own part , and this doth he well deserve of my report , that the blessing of him that was ready to perish was upon him ...
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... hear the loud shouting and heavy tread of my pursuer and his followers ; so that I was full fain hastily to return towards the secret passage and cell of the dead Viscount , wherein I deemed that I had left his body for time and for ...
... hear the loud shouting and heavy tread of my pursuer and his followers ; so that I was full fain hastily to return towards the secret passage and cell of the dead Viscount , wherein I deemed that I had left his body for time and for ...
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abbey abbot albeit anon answered aught barque behold Bermondsey Bermondsey Abbey Bernard Schalken blessed brave brethren Burgundy chamber chapel Christ Christopher Urswicke church dark Dartford death declared deemed desire divers Duke of Burgundy Dutchess earth earthly England eyes fair faith father fear forthwith gentle goodly Harry Tudor hastily hath hazard hear heard heart heaven Henry Henry VII holy honour hope hour house of York Howbeit Lady of Walsingham live lodging look Lord Lovel methought monastery monks never night noble nought once passed peradventure perchance pious pray prayers prioress realm replied responded rich Richard Plantagenet Robert Langlande royal seemed unto shrine sister soldier solemn sooth sorrow soul spake speech suddenly Tabard thee thereof thereunto thine thither Thomas Moyle thought tion told tomb tranquil trow truly truth visage voice Walsingham ween wherein whereupon whilst wondrous wont
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Página 179 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon...
Página 179 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers,) And mark'd the mild angelic air, The rapture of repose that's there...
Página 126 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Página 143 - Now the winged people of the sky shall sing My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring ; A prayer-book now shall be my looking-glass, In which I will adore sweet virtue's face. Here dwell no hateful looks, no palace cares, No broken vows dwell here, nor pale-faced fears...
Página 126 - ... sacrament publicly, and appointed an eloquent and devout friar to preach a sermon of contempt of the world, and of the happiness and benefit of a quiet and contemplative life, which the friar did most affectionately. After which sermon, the Emperor took occasion to declare openly, " that the preacher had begot in him a resolution to lay down his dignities, and to forsake the world, and betake himself to a monastical life.
Página 99 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
Página 18 - Dalmatia, Poland, where not, sir? I have been a poor servitor by sea and land any time this fourteen years, and followed the fortunes of the best commanders in Christendom. I was twice, shot at the taking of Aleppo, once at the relief of Vienna; I have been at Marseilles, Naples, and the Adriatic...
Página 160 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Página 158 - YET do I live! O how shall I sustain This vast unutterable weight of woe ? This worse than hunger, poverty, or pain, Or all the complicated ills below ? She, in whose life my hopes were treasur'd all. Is gone— for ever fled— My dearest Emma's dead ; These eyes, these tear-swoln eyes beheld her fall.
Página 179 - And there shall come a king and confess you religious; and bete you as the Bible telleth, for breaking of your rule. And then shall the abbot of Abingdon and all his issue for ever have a knock of a king and incurable the wound.