Woodstock: Or, The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1826 |
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alarm Albert Lee Alice Lee answered arms better betwixt Bevis Brentford called cavalier character Charles Church cloak Colonel Everard commands Crom Cromwell danger daugh devil Doctor Rochecliffe door dress duty England escape exclaimed eyes faithful father fear feelings fellow gentleman Gilbert Pearson give ground hand hath hear heard heart Holdenough honour horses hour instantly Joceline's John Milton King King's King's Oak Lodge look Lord Lord Wilmot Louis Kerneguy Majesty Majesty's Markham Everard Master Kerneguy Master Louis means Mistress Alice neral never noble old knight once party pass passion person petard Phoebe Pixie poor Presbyterian present Prince racter rapier replied roundhead royal safety scarce seemed Sir Henry Lee soldiers speak spirit spoke sword tell thee thing thou art thought tion Tomkins tone trust turn Victor Lee wench Wildrake wish Woodstock words yonder young
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Page 169 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof (Jer.5:22-31).
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Page 140 - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such...
Page 111 - John Milton !" exclaimed Sir Henry in astonishment — "What! John Milton, the blasphemous and bloody-minded author of the Defensio Poputi Anglicanil — the advocate of the infernal High Court of Fiends; the creature and parasite of that grand impostor, that loathsome hypocrite, that detestable monster, that prodigy of the universe, that disgrace of mankind, that landscape of iniquity, that sink of sin, and that compendium of baseness, Oliver Cromwell !" " Even the same John Milton," answered Charles...
Page 221 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 103 - And turn his weapon from him. Himself he on an earwig set, Yet scarce he on his back could get, So oft and high he did curvet, Ere he himself could settle : He made him turn, and stop, and bound, To gallop and to trot the round, He scarce could stand on any ground, He was so full of mettle.
Page 278 - Yet what can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier...