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... Hall - · 85 A Duel in the time of Henry III . 93 The Exiled Earl - The Sheik's Revenge Marie ; or the Blue Kerchief The Mortar and the Pestle - 97 - 109 - 130 ter - 133 - - 145 · 169 - Richard III . and Lady Anne , a Legend of Crosby Hall ...
... Hall - · 85 A Duel in the time of Henry III . 93 The Exiled Earl - The Sheik's Revenge Marie ; or the Blue Kerchief The Mortar and the Pestle - 97 - 109 - 130 ter - 133 - - 145 · 169 - Richard III . and Lady Anne , a Legend of Crosby Hall ...
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... Hall 9. The Exiled Earl • 10 , 11. The Sheik's Revenge 12. The Mortar and the Pestle 61 73 85 97 109 , 121 133 13 , 14 , 15. Richard the Third and Lady Anne 145 , 157 , 176 16. The Exiled Queen 169 17. The Betrayer and his Avenger 18 ...
... Hall 9. The Exiled Earl • 10 , 11. The Sheik's Revenge 12. The Mortar and the Pestle 61 73 85 97 109 , 121 133 13 , 14 , 15. Richard the Third and Lady Anne 145 , 157 , 176 16. The Exiled Queen 169 17. The Betrayer and his Avenger 18 ...
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... hall with its gallery of Reubens , Claude , Poussin , and Vandyke ( the grand objects of your excursion ) , not less by the bump which it gratuitously adds to your craniology , than by the shock it inflicts on your romantic trance ...
... hall with its gallery of Reubens , Claude , Poussin , and Vandyke ( the grand objects of your excursion ) , not less by the bump which it gratuitously adds to your craniology , than by the shock it inflicts on your romantic trance ...
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... hall ; our lays shall mingle music with the pealing bells , the clanging beaker , and the twanging harp ; our illus- trations shall rival the storied paintings of his great arched windows , and the coloured imagery of his tapestried ...
... hall ; our lays shall mingle music with the pealing bells , the clanging beaker , and the twanging harp ; our illus- trations shall rival the storied paintings of his great arched windows , and the coloured imagery of his tapestried ...
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... hall ; he bowed , she curtsied , and step- ping into her carriage , set off with the infant Roscius . The next day about noon , Mr. Northcote happened to be alone ; a gentle tap was heard , and the studio door opened , when , as the ...
... hall ; he bowed , she curtsied , and step- ping into her carriage , set off with the infant Roscius . The next day about noon , Mr. Northcote happened to be alone ; a gentle tap was heard , and the studio door opened , when , as the ...
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admiral Agnès Alienor appeared arms beautiful beneath bosom Bridget brow called castle Caylus Claudius Pompeianus Codrus Commodus Cornet Waddle cried Crosby Hall dark daugh daughter dear death deep devil door Duke Eclectus Eloi emperor entered exclaimed eyes face fair father fear feel friar gaze gentleman Glo'ster gold hall hand happy hast head heard heart heaven honour horse hour house of Lancaster James Tyrrel king King William Street lady Lætus light lips Livarot London Bridge look lord Macbeth Madame Makandal marriage ment mind morning never night Nisida noble palace Palazzo Pitti pale Parterre passed Pertinax Peterhof poor present Price Two-Pence prince Published by Effingham queen replied Riberac scarcely scene seemed shewed side silence Sir Everard sleep smile soon soul Speedwell stood sword tears thee thing thought tion turned voice walk wife young youth
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Page 58 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 58 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 286 - The sun's eye had a sickly glare, The earth with age was wan, The skeletons of nations were Around that lonely man.
Page 195 - The castled Crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine...
Page 194 - I do embrace it : for even that vulgar and tavern music, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the first composer ; there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding.
Page 176 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 176 - All things in common, nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour : treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Page 86 - Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. I called on poisonous names with which our youth is fed; I was not heard - I saw them not...
Page 114 - It might be added, that early authorities show us no such persons as Banquo and his son Fleance, nor have we reason to think that the latter ever fled further from Macbeth than across the flat scene, according to the stage direction. Neither were Banquo or his son ancestors of the house of Stuart.
Page 168 - When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones.