Thalatta! Or The Great Commoner. A Political RomanceParker, Son and Bourn, 1862 - 371 páginas |
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Thalatta! Or the Great Commoner: A Political Romance (Classic Reprint) John Skelton Prévia não disponível - 2018 |
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Termos e frases comuns
Alice Ashton asked beautiful believe better blue boat Carlyon Catarina CHAPTER charming cheek cheerful Codlington cold Corry Corry's cottage Darcy dark dead Dean dear death dinna Elsie English exclaimed eyes face fancy FRANCIS PALGRAVE girl grave grey ha'e hair hand Hawkstone heard heart heaven Hester immortal intellect Jebusites JOHN ARTHUR ROEBUCK JOHN WILLIAM DONALDSON Katie keen Lady Beatrix lassie light lips live looked Lord Menteith Miles Warrender mind Minister moral morning Mowbray Mowbray's never night Octavo once Otterburne pale passion perhaps Peter political politician Post Octavo pretty red-throated divers replied rest RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH rosy round Saint Cecilia Second Edition Sir Jasper smile soul stolen summer tell Thalatta thing Third Edition tion Titian Trelawney voice waves Whig WILLIAM MASSEY wind woman wonder words wudna
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Página 300 - Now, ever alake! my master dear, I fear a deadly storm! I saw the new moon late yestreen, Wi' the auld moon in her arm; And if we gang to sea, master, I fear we'll come to harm.
Página 159 - Let us not therefore judge one another any more : but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Página 42 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil- star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Página 212 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find : With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. The lifted axe, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men remote from power but rarely known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience, all our own.
Página 140 - I am going a long way With these thou seest - if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 22 - Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana, he is almost lost that built it. Time hath spared the epitaph of Adrian's horse, confounded that of himself.
Página 311 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.