Courtenay of Walreddon1844 |
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Courtenay of Walreddon: A Romance of the West (Classic Reprint) Anna Eliza Bray No preview available - 2018 |
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Antonio Miotte arms bless bosom brother called Captain Courtenay Captain Smith Carew cause Chagford child Chud church Cinderella circumstances Colonel Cornet Coryton danger dear death door enemy exclaimed eyes fancied father fear feelings Gandy gentleman girl give gypsy hand head hear heard heart honour hope horse James Chudleigh James Smith John Goodman kersey cloth King's knew Lady Howard Lady Isabella live looked manner matter mayor mercy Mewey mind mother never night old Constance once papers Papist Parliament pass passion Plymouth poor prison Radigund replied Robin Rougemont Castle Roundheads Royalists Ruthen seemed Sir Arthur Astell Sir Bevil Grenville Sir George Chudleigh Sir Henry Howard Sir Hugh Pollard Sir Ralph Hopton Slanning soon sorrow soul speak spirit spoke stood strong suffer surprise sword Tavistock tell thing thought tion told truth unhappy Walreddon whilst wife wish woman word young
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Page 21 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it ; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Page 94 - Tis a history Handed from ages down ; a nurse's tale . . Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd devour ; And thus as garrulous ignorance relates, We learn it and believe.
Page 280 - Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me.
Page 21 - scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption thence, And portance in my...
Page 239 - Then I am paid ; And once again I do receive thee honest : — Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth...
Page 118 - Yes, The limner's art may trace the absent feature, And give the eye of distant weeping faith To view the form of its idolatry ; But oh ! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted — The thoughts, the recollections sweet and bitter— Th...
Page 290 - But wherefore do you hold me here so long ? What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye and death i...
Page 75 - The Sun was set ; the night came on apace, And falling dews bewet around the place ; The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, And the hoarse owl his woeful dirges sings ; The prudent maiden deems it now too late, And till to-morrow comes defers her fate.
Page 118 - Yea, time hath power, and what a power I'll tell thee: A power to change the pulses of the heart To one dull throb of ceaseless agony — To hush the sigh on the resigned lip, And lock it in the heart — freeze the hot tear, And bid it on the eyelid hang for ever! — Such power hath time o'er me.
Page 67 - The bloom of opening flowers, unsullied beauty, Softness, and sweetest innocence she wears, And looks like nature in the world's first spring.