The novels and romances of A.E. Bray, Volume 101846 |
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Page 9 - 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 39 - Tis a history Handed from ages down ; a nurse's tale. . Which children, open-eyed and mouth'd, devour ; And thus as garrulous ignorance relates, We learn it and believe.
Page 396 - Greenvil; who was indeed an excellent person, whose activity, interest, and reputation, was the foundation of what had been done in Cornwall ; and his temper and affections so public, that no accident which happened could make any impressions in him ; and his example kept others from taking any thing ill, or at least seeming to do so. In a word, a brighter courage, and a gentler disposition, were never married together to make the most cheerful and innocent conversation.
Page 87 - I show it most of all, when I show justice ; For then I pity those I do not know, Which a dismissed offence would after gall; And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong, Lives not to act another.
Page 363 - 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 162 - 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 27 - When the dew wets its leaves, unstained and pure As is the lily or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes, Still on the ground dejected, darting all Their humid beams into the blooming flowers ; Or when the mournful tale her mother told Of what her faithless fortune promised once Thrilled in her thought, they, like the dewy star Of evening, shone in tears.
Page 414 - ... the earl in a personal conflict, he revenged himself upon him in such opprobrious language as the government and justice of that time would not permit to pass unpunished ; and the earl appealed for reparation to the court...
Page 308 - Grant me license To answer this defiance. What intelligence Holds your proud master with the will of heaven, That, ere the uncertain die of war be thrown, He dares assure himself the victory ? Are his unjust invading arms of fire ? Or those we put on in defence of right, Like chaff to be consumed in the encounter ? I look on your dimensions, and find not Mine own of lesser size ; the blood that fills My veins, as hot 'as yours : my sword as sharp, My nerves of equal strength, my heart as good ; And,...
Page 122 - That Great God who is the searcher of all hearts, knows with what a sad fear I go upon this service, and with what perfect hate I detest a War without an Enemy. But I look upon it as Opus Domini...