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... measure to be compounded of Captain Fluellen and Bobadil ; -but the ludicrous combination of the soldado with the Divinity student of Marischal College , is entirely original ; and the mixture of talent , selfishness , courage ...
... measure to be compounded of Captain Fluellen and Bobadil ; -but the ludicrous combination of the soldado with the Divinity student of Marischal College , is entirely original ; and the mixture of talent , selfishness , courage ...
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... measure to the vulgar staple of arm- ed knights and jolly friars or woodsmen , imprisoned damsels , lawless barons , collared serfs , and household fools - he has made such admirable use of his great talents for description , and in ...
... measure to the vulgar staple of arm- ed knights and jolly friars or woodsmen , imprisoned damsels , lawless barons , collared serfs , and household fools - he has made such admirable use of his great talents for description , and in ...
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... measuring the dis- tance with his eye , while he held in his hand his bended bow , with the arrow placed on the string . At length he made a step forward , and raising the bow at the full stretch of his left arm , till the centre or ...
... measuring the dis- tance with his eye , while he held in his hand his bended bow , with the arrow placed on the string . At length he made a step forward , and raising the bow at the full stretch of his left arm , till the centre or ...
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... measure your un ceasing charity towards him in his wounds and misfortunes . Speak , is there aught remains in which he and I can serve thee ? " - " Nothing , " said Rebecca , calmy , " unless you will transmit to him my grateful fare ...
... measure your un ceasing charity towards him in his wounds and misfortunes . Speak , is there aught remains in which he and I can serve thee ? " - " Nothing , " said Rebecca , calmy , " unless you will transmit to him my grateful fare ...
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... measure , then , by which we were to be tected from the evils of the war expenditure , was the new settling of the Sinking Fund in the year 1793 : And when we say , that the whole plan , from the beginning to the end , has proved a mere ...
... measure , then , by which we were to be tected from the evils of the war expenditure , was the new settling of the Sinking Fund in the year 1793 : And when we say , that the whole plan , from the beginning to the end , has proved a mere ...
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الصفحة 76 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
الصفحة 139 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
الصفحة 76 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
الصفحة 10 - One part of his dress only remains, but it is too remarkable to be suppressed; it was a brass ring, resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed, excepting by the use of the file. On this singular gorget was engraved in Saxon characters, an inscription of the following purport:—" Gurth, the son of Beowulph, is the born thrall of Cedric of Rotherwood.
الصفحة 77 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
الصفحة 20 - When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt.
الصفحة 38 - Heaven strike with the cause of the oppressed and of the captive!" She then uttered a loud shriek, and exclaimed, "He is down! - he is down!" "Who is down?" cried Ivanhoe; "for our dear Lady's sake, tell me which has fallen?" "The Black Knight/' answered Rebecca, faintly; then instantly again shouted with joyful eagerness - "But no - but no!
الصفحة 38 - I see him now ; he leads a body of men close under the outer barrier of the barbican. They pull down the piles and palisades ; they hew down the barriers with axes. His high black plume floats abroad over the throng, like a raven over the field of the slain. They have made a breach in the barriers — they rush in — they are thrust back ! — Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders ; — I see his gigantic form above the press.
الصفحة 343 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
الصفحة 9 - ... in some places they were intermingled with beeches hollies and copsewood of various descriptions so closely as totally to intercept the level beams of the sinking sun in others they receded from each other forming those long sweeping vistas in the intricacy of which the eye delights to lose itself while imagination considers them as the paths to yet wilder scenes of sylvan solitude...