Wanderings of Childe Harolde: A Romance of Real Life : Interspersed with Memoirs of the English Wife, the Foreign Mistress, and Various Other Celebrated Characters, Volume 3Sherwood, Jones & Company, 1825 |
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... gave her son a passport to the out - posts of the French lines , where , at daybreak , he was to proceed with a grey horse for a Colonel who had purchased it from her . These things were not lost upon Dar- ley , who was directed to be ...
... gave her son a passport to the out - posts of the French lines , where , at daybreak , he was to proceed with a grey horse for a Colonel who had purchased it from her . These things were not lost upon Dar- ley , who was directed to be ...
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... gave him great un- easiness ; but he arrived in safety within a mile of the Colonel's quarters , when he stopped at a wine - house , and called for refreshment . The soldiers marched on , and left him alone . He drank a few bottles with ...
... gave him great un- easiness ; but he arrived in safety within a mile of the Colonel's quarters , when he stopped at a wine - house , and called for refreshment . The soldiers marched on , and left him alone . He drank a few bottles with ...
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... gave sufficient light to shew a blush on his countenance . Harolde having given the reins to his passions , let them riot uncontrolled , and extended his vagaries to many more days and nights than one , the governor and the nuns keeping ...
... gave sufficient light to shew a blush on his countenance . Harolde having given the reins to his passions , let them riot uncontrolled , and extended his vagaries to many more days and nights than one , the governor and the nuns keeping ...
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... gave Harolde time to prepare the Countess for receiving Freeman . She wept at the interview ; and it was agreed by all , that their former acquaint- ance should be kept a secret from the Count , and Freeman introduced in his presence as ...
... gave Harolde time to prepare the Countess for receiving Freeman . She wept at the interview ; and it was agreed by all , that their former acquaint- ance should be kept a secret from the Count , and Freeman introduced in his presence as ...
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... gave me ; love had then never entered my bosom , or disturb ed an hour of my repose ; but the idea of forsaking the flowery fields , bidding adieu to all my rambles by the beach , and being shut up in a gloomy harem , condemned to the ...
... gave me ; love had then never entered my bosom , or disturb ed an hour of my repose ; but the idea of forsaking the flowery fields , bidding adieu to all my rambles by the beach , and being shut up in a gloomy harem , condemned to the ...
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Page 222 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep these lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! with her to die...
Page 87 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
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