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... supposed to say - and scarce any thing indeed that is not characteristic of her rank and h bitual occupations . She is never sentimental , nor refined , n elegant ; and though acting always , and in very difficult situ tions , with the ...
... supposed to say - and scarce any thing indeed that is not characteristic of her rank and h bitual occupations . She is never sentimental , nor refined , n elegant ; and though acting always , and in very difficult situ tions , with the ...
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... supposed that , having had their full share of such vanities , they were willing to withdraw their claim , in order to give a fair chance to the rising beauties of the age . - At length the champion paused beneath the balcony in which ...
... supposed that , having had their full share of such vanities , they were willing to withdraw their claim , in order to give a fair chance to the rising beauties of the age . - At length the champion paused beneath the balcony in which ...
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... supposed to have fallen in the general slaughter of her kindred , which signalized the Nor- man seizure of the mansion - but appeared to have been reserv- ed for the violence and worse corruptions of the victors . Though debased by her ...
... supposed to have fallen in the general slaughter of her kindred , which signalized the Nor- man seizure of the mansion - but appeared to have been reserv- ed for the violence and worse corruptions of the victors . Though debased by her ...
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... supposed necessity of subduing infidelity and eradicating heresy , which he conceived peculiarly incumbent on him . His features relaxed in their usual severity as he gazed upon the beautiful creature before him , alone , unfriended ...
... supposed necessity of subduing infidelity and eradicating heresy , which he conceived peculiarly incumbent on him . His features relaxed in their usual severity as he gazed upon the beautiful creature before him , alone , unfriended ...
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... supposed that 30 millions of gold was withdrawn from circulation in this country alone ; and as this great supply oc- curred at the time when the demand for gold to be made into coin had nearly ceased , it must be presumed that a ...
... supposed that 30 millions of gold was withdrawn from circulation in this country alone ; and as this great supply oc- curred at the time when the demand for gold to be made into coin had nearly ceased , it must be presumed that a ...
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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...