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... speaking in detail , we pro- ceed , without further preface , to give an account of the work before us . The story , as we have already stated , is entirely English ; and consequently no longer possesses the charm of that sweet Doric ...
... speaking in detail , we pro- ceed , without further preface , to give an account of the work before us . The story , as we have already stated , is entirely English ; and consequently no longer possesses the charm of that sweet Doric ...
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... speak not for endangering the steed , and coat of armour , but for the sake of thine own life and limbs . Gramercy for thy caution , " said the Palmer , again smiling ; " I will use thy courtesy frankly , and it will go hard with me but ...
... speak not for endangering the steed , and coat of armour , but for the sake of thine own life and limbs . Gramercy for thy caution , " said the Palmer , again smiling ; " I will use thy courtesy frankly , and it will go hard with me but ...
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... speak who answers for an absent master . Leave not , however , the horse and armour here . Restore them to thy master ; or , if he scorns to accept them , retain them , good friend , for thine own use . So far as they are mine , I ...
... speak who answers for an absent master . Leave not , however , the horse and armour here . Restore them to thy master ; or , if he scorns to accept them , retain them , good friend , for thine own use . So far as they are mine , I ...
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... speak- ing almost at the instant that the shaft left the bow - string , yet it alighted in the target two inches nearer to the white spot which marked the centre than that of Hubert . By the light of heaven ! said Prince John to Hubert ...
... speak- ing almost at the instant that the shaft left the bow - string , yet it alighted in the target two inches nearer to the white spot which marked the centre than that of Hubert . By the light of heaven ! said Prince John to Hubert ...
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... speak by words where signs can answer the purpose . So saying , he pointed successively to two corners of the hut . " Your stable , " said he , " is there- your bed there ; and , " reaching down a platter with two handfuls of parched ...
... speak by words where signs can answer the purpose . So saying , he pointed successively to two corners of the hut . " Your stable , " said he , " is there- your bed there ; and , " reaching down a platter with two handfuls of parched ...
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Page 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 10 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
Page 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
Page 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
Page 38 - I see him now ; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades ; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
Page 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...