Geraldine Maynard; or, The abduction, Volume 1Charles J. Skeet, 1864 |
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... young girl , coming forward at this moment , and taking the phial from the hand of the village practitioner . " If this philtre is likely to give life to the body , " she said , " in Heaven's name let it be tried here at once . This man ...
... young girl , coming forward at this moment , and taking the phial from the hand of the village practitioner . " If this philtre is likely to give life to the body , " she said , " in Heaven's name let it be tried here at once . This man ...
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... young girl who so readily came to the rescue , if we may so term it , and had indeed saved his life by her quickness and acute observation , had con- stituted herself his attendant during the night . She was THE ABDUCTION . 19 CHAPTER V ...
... young girl who so readily came to the rescue , if we may so term it , and had indeed saved his life by her quickness and acute observation , had con- stituted herself his attendant during the night . She was THE ABDUCTION . 19 CHAPTER V ...
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... young and lovely girl of some eighteen years of age , with a cheek of cream , hair like the black cock's wing , piercing eyes , and a small , slight figure symmetrically and beautifully formed . She had insisted upon tending the wounded ...
... young and lovely girl of some eighteen years of age , with a cheek of cream , hair like the black cock's wing , piercing eyes , and a small , slight figure symmetrically and beautifully formed . She had insisted upon tending the wounded ...
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... young , to fully appreciate the scenes pour- trayed there in one of the plays she had perused . She looked at Hodge with a look of most supreme contempt , turned from him and re - entering the inner chamber , slammed the door , as if ...
... young , to fully appreciate the scenes pour- trayed there in one of the plays she had perused . She looked at Hodge with a look of most supreme contempt , turned from him and re - entering the inner chamber , slammed the door , as if ...
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... young maiden's thoughts . Fine feathers and fine birds were as nought to her mind and eye , and yet she had oftimes , from girlhood , stood in the old Hall of Walshingham , and seen some of the choice and master spirits of the age ...
... young maiden's thoughts . Fine feathers and fine birds were as nought to her mind and eye , and yet she had oftimes , from girlhood , stood in the old Hall of Walshingham , and seen some of the choice and master spirits of the age ...
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amongst Barnes Common beheld Blackfriars Burleigh caitiff cavaliers chamber CHAPTER companion cottage dame Doctor Dee door drew eyes face fain fear fugitive Fulham gazed gentle George Geraldine Maynard goodly guests hand hath heard heart Hodge hour inquired Killed a king lass laugh London looked Lord Leicester Lord of Leicester Lord Rich Lord Southampton maiden Majesty Majesty's Manor House Master Maynard master Miller Master Rookwood Master Shakspere Master Skinflint morning Mortlake night noble officer old Maynard passed Penelope Devereux pere perhaps play poet poor present Queen returned Shakspere returned the Miller Richmond Palace Richmond Park royal scene seated seemed seen Shaks Sir Christopher Hatton Sir Francis Walshingham Sir Philip Sidney sort spoke stood stranger succour sweet thee things thought thrust took tooth-ache traitor traveller turned villain walked whilst wonderful words wounded
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Página 58 - 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.
Página 58 - 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.
Página 114 - O ! how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours. There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Página 128 - What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Página 111 - When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 129 - gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Página 72 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 111 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Página 262 - Oh, that a man should put an enemy into his mouth to steal away his brains ! ' " " You may well call it an enemy, Chaplain.
Página 64 - I'll never follow thy palled fortunes more. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offered, Shall never find it more.