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Página 58
... alarm , had not the stranger who had first beheld her mother , called to her in a gentle and assuring voice , that she had nothing to fear . The lord of the mansion had left his barricades for an instant ; but the howl- ing of the storm ...
... alarm , had not the stranger who had first beheld her mother , called to her in a gentle and assuring voice , that she had nothing to fear . The lord of the mansion had left his barricades for an instant ; but the howl- ing of the storm ...
Página 59
... alarm ; and the scanty portion of clothes in which she was clad , concealed but little of its elegant outline . Her paleness might be attributed to her apprehensions , for the colour had even fled from her lips , or at least there was ...
... alarm ; and the scanty portion of clothes in which she was clad , concealed but little of its elegant outline . Her paleness might be attributed to her apprehensions , for the colour had even fled from her lips , or at least there was ...
Página 63
... alarm respect- ing him , in the first place ; and in the second , to her terrors occasioned by the fire , from which to this hour she had not recovered . These terrors were revived on the present occasion . The com- bustion of the ...
... alarm respect- ing him , in the first place ; and in the second , to her terrors occasioned by the fire , from which to this hour she had not recovered . These terrors were revived on the present occasion . The com- bustion of the ...
Página 96
... alarm her . And having cau- tioned the White Fairy to keep her secret , or at least to say nothing more to any one else of her buccaneer friend , whom he could see with his glass already seated in the canoe ; he beckoned Michal into the ...
... alarm her . And having cau- tioned the White Fairy to keep her secret , or at least to say nothing more to any one else of her buccaneer friend , whom he could see with his glass already seated in the canoe ; he beckoned Michal into the ...
Página 105
... alarm ; fearing that some scheme was to be played off on him , if he should prove refractory with the Obeah man , whose magic rites he had predetermined to denounce publicly , should he see anything which in his ideas militated against ...
... alarm ; fearing that some scheme was to be played off on him , if he should prove refractory with the Obeah man , whose magic rites he had predetermined to denounce publicly , should he see anything which in his ideas militated against ...
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abode alarm arms assured attorney beautiful Belmont beneath betrayed blood bridge brown Brutchie buckra calabash called canoe cave Christians Combah companions cried Cuba Cuffy dare daughter death devil doubloons Drybones duppie England escape eyes face Fairfax fancy fear feeling Fillbeer fire gaoler gentleman girl give gone Guthrie's Hamel hand head hear heard heart heaven horse island Jamaica kill king knew lagoon least looked Maroons master Roland Michal mind Miss Guthrie Miss Joanna Missionary mistress monarch mountains Mulatto murder Negroes never night Obeah man's Osnaburgh passion perhaps person piazza planter Port Antonio portmanteau preach preacher pretty prisoner Quadroon queen of Jamaica recollection rejoined replied rocks round runaway Sebastian seemed sigh slaves smile soubrette taken tears tell thought tion told trees turned voice wife wizard woman women Wowski young lady
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Página 299 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Página 270 - Full oft by holy feet our ground was trod, Of clerks good plenty here you mote espy. A little, round, fat, oily man of God, Was one I chiefly mark'd among the fry : He had a roguish twinkle in his eye, And shone all glittering with ungodly dew, If a tight damsel chaunc'd to trippen by ; Which when observ'd, he shrunk into his mew, And straight would recollect his piety anew.
Página 111 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Página 312 - No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes : What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! But who comes here ? Enter Escalus, Provost, Bawd, and Officers.
Página 48 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 81 - The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation ; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
Página 212 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Página 242 - THERE was an ancient sage philosopher That had read Alexander Ross over, And swore the world, as he could prove, Was made of fighting and of love. Just so Romances are, for what else Is in them all but love and battles ? O' th' first of these w' have no great matter To treat of, but a world o' th' latter, In which to do the injured right We mean, in what concerns just fight.
Página 173 - Lay her i' the earth : And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring ! I tell thee churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
Página 212 - How oft, when press'd to marriage, have I said, Curse on all laws but those which love has made! Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies...