Brambletye House; Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads: A NovelA. and W. Galignani, 1826 - 257 Seiten |
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... prepared for her now ; I have a cross - bow here , " which will bring down its bird without blabbing ; and be it hag or hobgoblin , witch or wizard , ghost or gossip , spy or spectre , the devil or the devil's dam , if I can but catch a ...
... prepared for her now ; I have a cross - bow here , " which will bring down its bird without blabbing ; and be it hag or hobgoblin , witch or wizard , ghost or gossip , spy or spectre , the devil or the devil's dam , if I can but catch a ...
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... prepared to separate for the night . Culpepper was directed to drive the cart back to the forest , and leave it in its usual place , and Sir John having re- commended Waynfleet and the Chaplain to take off their shoes 12 BRAMBLETYE HOUSE .
... prepared to separate for the night . Culpepper was directed to drive the cart back to the forest , and leave it in its usual place , and Sir John having re- commended Waynfleet and the Chaplain to take off their shoes 12 BRAMBLETYE HOUSE .
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... adapted to the rancour of her words ; and the warrener , with some others of the party , were preparing to put their threats into immediate execution , when the landlord interfered , exclaiming- " Nay , nay , my 24 " BRAMBLETYE HOUSE .
... adapted to the rancour of her words ; and the warrener , with some others of the party , were preparing to put their threats into immediate execution , when the landlord interfered , exclaiming- " Nay , nay , my 24 " BRAMBLETYE HOUSE .
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... prepared ; and the little household - garrison , weakened by the absence of the whole hunting establishment , which was in attend- ance upon the Baronet , was collected and very la- conically harangued by Serjeant Whittaker , who asked ...
... prepared ; and the little household - garrison , weakened by the absence of the whole hunting establishment , which was in attend- ance upon the Baronet , was collected and very la- conically harangued by Serjeant Whittaker , who asked ...
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... prepared for the large dinner - company , which was expected to bring home hunter's appe- tites with Sir John , exclaimed- " Upon my word ! this is a more courteous re- ception than we could have expected , and if the cook fail us not ...
... prepared for the large dinner - company , which was expected to bring home hunter's appe- tites with Sir John , exclaimed- " Upon my word ! this is a more courteous re- ception than we could have expected , and if the cook fail us not ...
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apprehension arms Ashdown forest Baronet better Brambletye House Bruges called cavalier songs Cavaliers chaplain Colonel Lilburne companion concealed countenance cried Sir John Cromwell crop-eared Culpepper curse dark declaring door Duke Duke of York Dunkirk East Grinstead ejaculated England escape exclaimed eyes father favour gaoler gate Gate-house Giles Groombridge hall hand hastily head heard honour Hopton Heath horse hour hurried immediate inquired Jack Whittaker Jocelyn King King's landlord Lockhart look Lord Lord Protector Majesty Marquess Marquess of Ormond master ment Monarch morning never night Noll observed pedlar Pickering pistol present prison proceeded Protector Puritans racter rapier rascal replied Sir rogues Roundheads Royalists seemed seized Serjeant Whittaker singing Sir John Compton Sir William soldiers song sword thee thou thought tion troop turned utterly vaults voice wall Waynfleet whole party wish woman word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 133 - ... family ; to do all this under the name and wages of a parliament; to trample upon them too as he pleased, and spurn them out of doors when he grew weary of them ; to raise up a new and...
Seite 133 - ... overcome with equal facility both the riches of the south and the poverty of the north; to be feared and courted by all foreign princes, and adopted a brother to the gods of the earth; to call together parliaments with a word of his pen.
Seite 199 - My Lady Gerrard treated us at Mulberry Garden, ' now the onely place of refreshment about the towne for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at...
Seite 157 - This night I was invited by Mr. Roger L'Estrange to hear the incomparable Lubicer on the violin. His variety on a few notes and plain ground, with that wonderful dexterity, was admirable. Though a young man, yet so perfect and skilful, that there was nothing, however cross and perplexed, brought to him by our artists, which he did not play off at sight with ravishing sweetness and improvements, to the astonishment of our best masters.
Seite 18 - Barrow shall be sainted ; There's neither cross nor crucifix Shall stand for men to see, Rome's trash and trumpery shall go down, And hey, then, up go we...
Seite 133 - ... and to command them victoriously at last ; to over-run each corner of the three nations, and overcome with equal facility both the riches of the south and the poverty of the north ; to be...
Seite 133 - ... what can be more extraordinary than that a person of mean birth, no fortune, no eminent qualities of body, which have sometimes, or of mind which have often, raised men to the highest dignities, should have the courage to attempt, and the happiness to succeed in so improbable a design as the destruction of one of the most ancient and most solidly-founded monarchies upon the earth...
Seite 157 - In sum, he played on the single instrument a full concert, so as the rest flung down their instruments, acknowledging the victory. As to my own particular, I stand to this hour amazed that God should give so great perfection to so young a person.
Seite 32 - A hound and a hawk no longer Shall be symptoms of disaffection ; A cock-fight shall cease to be breach of the peace, And an horse-race an insurrection.
Seite 21 - But a beggar's a beggar and so he shall be, Unless he turn Traytor, Let Misers take courses to hep up their treasure, Whose lust has no limits, whose mind has no measure Let me be but quiet and take a little pleasure, A little contents my nature. My Petition shall be that Canary be cheaper, Without Patent or Custom, or cursed Excise ; That the Wits may have leave to drink deeper and deeper, And not be undone, while their heads they baptise, And in liquor do drench 'um ; If this were but granted,...