Granby: A Novel, Volume 3

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H. Colburn, 1826 - 330 páginas
 

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Página 143 - Hounds are in their couples yelling, Hawks are whistling, horns are knelling, Merrily, merrily, mingle they, " Waken, lords and ladies gay." Waken, lords and ladies gay...
Página 21 - Like to the grass that's newly sprung, Or like a tale that's new begun, Or like the bird that's here today, Or like the pearled dew of May, Or like an hour, or like a span, Or like the singing of a swan — Even such is man; who lives by breath, Is here, now there, in life, and death. The grass withers, the tale is ended; The bird is flown, the dew's ascended; The hour is short, the span not long; The swan's near death; man's life is done.
Página 251 - REMORSE is as the heart in which it grows : If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, It is a poison-tree, that pierced to the inmost Weeps only tears of poison ! Alv.
Página 68 - And hears him rustling in the wood, and sees His course at distance by the bending trees ; And thinks, Here comes my mortal enemy, And either he must fall in fight, or I...
Página 318 - No day discolour'd with domestic strife; No jealousy, but mutual truth believed, Secure repose, and kindness undeceived. Thus Heaven, beyond the compass of his thought, Sent him the blessing he so dearly bought. So may the Queen of Love long duty bless, And all true lovers find the same success!
Página 157 - Hark ! from yon covert, where those towering oaks Above the humble copse aspiring rise, What glorious triumphs burst in every gale Upon our ravish'd ears ! The hunters shout, The clanging horns swell their sweet-winding notes, The pack wide opening load the trembling air With various melody ; from tree to tree The propagated cry redoubling bounds...
Página 224 - Tedsworth property, and found that, in addition to an extensive rent-roll, it possessed the advantages of a good house, and the best pheasant covers in the country. It was therefore a place where, should he be so inclined, he might contrive, very passably, to spend a week or two in the winter. His course was consequently taken, and Lord Malton was to be won. It was not easy to, withstand the ingenious cajoleries, which, when he chose to be agreeable, Trebeck could so artfully employ. He directed...
Página 157 - The pack wide opening load the trembling air With various melody ; from tree to tree The propagated cry redoubling bounds, And winged zephyrs waft the floating joy...
Página 206 - ... strove Who should express her goodliest. You have seen Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and tears Were like a better...
Página 37 - I annex to myself, as if it were entitled to my exclusive attention. I am unable to cope with you : what then ? Can that circumstance dishonour me ? No ; I can only be dishonoured by perpetrating an unjust action. My honour is in my own keeping, beyond the reach of all mankind.

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