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... church ! " CROSS READINGS , FROM WALTER SCOTT'S KENILWORTH . WHEN the Countess of Leicester ar- rived - before Wayland's horse's nose - spiked with steel - dressed up with vizards and buskins - the pave- ment flashed fire - She raised ...
... church ! " CROSS READINGS , FROM WALTER SCOTT'S KENILWORTH . WHEN the Countess of Leicester ar- rived - before Wayland's horse's nose - spiked with steel - dressed up with vizards and buskins - the pave- ment flashed fire - She raised ...
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... CHURCH . “ AT Ormskirk , near Liverpool , the church has two steeples , one pointed , the other square . This singular cir- cumstance is thus accounted for Two sisters , of the name of Orme , re- solved to provide the town with a church ...
... CHURCH . “ AT Ormskirk , near Liverpool , the church has two steeples , one pointed , the other square . This singular cir- cumstance is thus accounted for Two sisters , of the name of Orme , re- solved to provide the town with a church ...
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... church yard gate ; where the whole parish was assembled to form the funeral train , and sing a requiem for his de- parted soul . All this while , nobody perceived the corpse was lost ; and every thing was conducted with great order and ...
... church yard gate ; where the whole parish was assembled to form the funeral train , and sing a requiem for his de- parted soul . All this while , nobody perceived the corpse was lost ; and every thing was conducted with great order and ...
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... church , can make a bishop rave ; Interest at ' change , can make a fool a knave . Interest can make a patriot a slave ; Interest can teach ill manners to behave . Interest can raise , and interest can de- prave , Interest the passage ...
... church , can make a bishop rave ; Interest at ' change , can make a fool a knave . Interest can make a patriot a slave ; Interest can teach ill manners to behave . Interest can raise , and interest can de- prave , Interest the passage ...
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... church as fine as tragedy queens . The surviving part of the crew blamed the captain for the accident ; and though they loved him , did not spare to say , that if he had not been so fond of his lady , but had watched upon deck , which ...
... church as fine as tragedy queens . The surviving part of the crew blamed the captain for the accident ; and though they loved him , did not spare to say , that if he had not been so fond of his lady , but had watched upon deck , which ...
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Page 305 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 102 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 305 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 168 - Nay ! not so much as out of bed ? When all the birds have matins said And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in, Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Page 40 - Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed You can send a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Page 200 - Alas ! the love of women ! it is known To be a lovely and a fearful thing ; For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, And if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring To them but mockeries of the past alone, And their revenge is as the tiger's spring, Deadly, and quick, and crushing ; yet, as real Torture is theirs, what they inflict they feel.
Page 159 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great...
Page 288 - May numerous herds and flocks be seen . And lasses chanting o'er the pail, And shepherds piping in the dale ; And ancient faith that knows no guile, And industry...
Page 197 - The village maid steals through the shade, Her shepherd's suit to hear; To beauty shy, by lattice high, Sings high-born Cavalier. The star of Love, all stars above, Now reigns o'er earth and sky; And high and low the influence know — But where is County Guy?
Page 202 - ... was over, remounted" their old stations in Guildhall — till by reason of their very great age, old Time, with the help of a number of city rats and mice, had eaten up all their entrails. The dissolution of the two old, weak, and feeble giants, gave birth to the two present substantial, and majestic giants ; who, by order, and at the city charge, were formed and fashioned. Captain Richard Saunders," an eminent carver in King Street...