Blacksmith and scholar, by Mortimer and Frances Collins. 1883Chatto and Windus, 1883 |
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... dinner . Robert Fitz Roy loved white , remembering the White King , Charles the Martyr , who wore white at his wedding , against all custom , and who was beheaded when Whitehall was white with snow . He had white birds about him ; he ...
... dinner . Robert Fitz Roy loved white , remembering the White King , Charles the Martyr , who wore white at his wedding , against all custom , and who was beheaded when Whitehall was white with snow . He had white birds about him ; he ...
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... dinner , and my stolid old godfather grows prosy . ' O , I know you boys , having been a boy myself , I am sorry say . Never mind , godson Robert , we will have a good dinner , and you shall beat me at chess after- wards , if you can ...
... dinner , and my stolid old godfather grows prosy . ' O , I know you boys , having been a boy myself , I am sorry say . Never mind , godson Robert , we will have a good dinner , and you shall beat me at chess after- wards , if you can ...
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... dinner in a comfortable parlour not too large for two . The western sun slanted through a window ablaze with heraldry , and cast reflex thereof on the splendid saddle ( the Squire's own Southdowns ) which melted so toothsomely in the ...
... dinner in a comfortable parlour not too large for two . The western sun slanted through a window ablaze with heraldry , and cast reflex thereof on the splendid saddle ( the Squire's own Southdowns ) which melted so toothsomely in the ...
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... dinner- time , and after dinner Robert said he should stroll down to the village . " Yes , " said his father , fiercely , when he had gone , “ I suppose he is going to Crockford's again . I was mistaken in supposing that a gentleman ...
... dinner- time , and after dinner Robert said he should stroll down to the village . " Yes , " said his father , fiercely , when he had gone , “ I suppose he is going to Crockford's again . I was mistaken in supposing that a gentleman ...
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... dinner on that last evening in the gayest spirits , and was particularly amiable to his father . Mrs. Fitz Roy tried to look cheerful , and Alice chatted pleasantly . Yet they were both most miserable , not only because Robert was going ...
... dinner on that last evening in the gayest spirits , and was particularly amiable to his father . Mrs. Fitz Roy tried to look cheerful , and Alice chatted pleasantly . Yet they were both most miserable , not only because Robert was going ...
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Page 193 - With gates of silver and bars of gold Ye have fenced my sheep from their Father's fold ; I have heard the dropping of their tears In heaven these eighteen hundred years.
Page 201 - EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 195 - Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.
Page 202 - Lord ! methought, what pain it was to drown ! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears ! What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
Page 27 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 17 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...