Brambletye House; Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads: A NovelA. and W. Galignani, 1826 - 257 Seiten |
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... replied Sir John , Iwe should not crow till we are fairly out of the wood ; so we may as well move on as fast as we can , and make for Brambletye House . " 66 " Anathema , maranatha ! A curse light upon it , and upon all its ...
... replied Sir John , Iwe should not crow till we are fairly out of the wood ; so we may as well move on as fast as we can , and make for Brambletye House . " 66 " Anathema , maranatha ! A curse light upon it , and upon all its ...
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... replied Sir John , " inasmuch as it cursed the house of Brambletye and all within it , for which I gave the utterer a shot of my cross - bow , and would fain have stopped its mouth with my rapier ; BRAMBLETYE HOUSE . 9.
... replied Sir John , " inasmuch as it cursed the house of Brambletye and all within it , for which I gave the utterer a shot of my cross - bow , and would fain have stopped its mouth with my rapier ; BRAMBLETYE HOUSE . 9.
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... replied the Chaplain . " I predicted this before you set out ; for it is the fifth day of the moon , upon which no undertaking prospers . You must surely recollect , Sir John , what Virgil says upon this very subject : - " Ipse dies ...
... replied the Chaplain . " I predicted this before you set out ; for it is the fifth day of the moon , upon which no undertaking prospers . You must surely recollect , Sir John , what Virgil says upon this very subject : - " Ipse dies ...
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... replied the Chaplain , not a little encou- raged by this declaration of Sir John's object , as well as by the confidence of his tone , " I threw out the suggestion for your own consideration , not with any intention of withdrawing ...
... replied the Chaplain , not a little encou- raged by this declaration of Sir John's object , as well as by the confidence of his tone , " I threw out the suggestion for your own consideration , not with any intention of withdrawing ...
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... replied the old woman , " nor does he al- ways favour those who may seem to be prosperous . " As if to prove this assertion , and at the same time to rebut the suspicion of poverty , she took a twenty shilling gold piece from her pocket ...
... replied the old woman , " nor does he al- ways favour those who may seem to be prosperous . " As if to prove this assertion , and at the same time to rebut the suspicion of poverty , she took a twenty shilling gold piece from her pocket ...
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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,...