Hollywood Hall: A Tale of 1715

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Routledge, Warnes, & Routledge, 1859 - 471 páginas

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Página 89 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Página i - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Página 176 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams of death: And, prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events, New hatch'd to the woeful time, The obscure bird clamour'd the live-long night : Some say the earth was feverous, and did shake.
Página 438 - Indeed your comparison is something a greasy one: but I had a gentle gallant used to say, A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
Página 118 - ... England's glory, Another face of things was seen, And I became a Tory.
Página 14 - Tis he great deeds hath done. To the souldiers that were maimed, And wounded in the fray, The queen allowed a pension Of fifteen pence a day ; And from all costs and charges She quit and set them free : And this she did all for the sake Of brave Lord Willoughbey.
Página 436 - One of his arms shall be drawn with a cord to one side of the room, and the other arm to the other side, and his legs shall be served in the like manner.
Página 436 - That the prisoner shall be sent to the prison from whence he came, and put into a mean room, stopped from the light, and shall there be laid on the bare ground, without any litter, straw or other covering, and without any garment about him, except something to hide his privy members.
Página 248 - The rebels shall fly, As with shouts we draw nigh, And Echo shall Victory ring ; Then safe from alarms, We'll rest on our arms, And chorus it,
Página 434 - The castle is composed of two parts, an upper and a lower ; each with a strong gate, defended by a round bastion on each side, with a ditch, and formerly with draw-bridges. Within the precincts of the upper...

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