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Page 156 - It is the bloody business, which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and withered murder, Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 33 - Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve— That column of true majesty in man...
Page 298 - We have scotched the snake, not killed it; She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. But let the frame of things disjoint, Both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.
Page 1 - Le donne, i cavalier, 1'arme, gli amori, Le cortesie, 1'audaci imprese io canto...
Page 61 - Morley," cried the other man, " this chicken-hearted fellow has even swooned like a girl !" " Steady a moment !" answered another voice, " good, there we have shot past the bridge, the gobbling citizens can scarce overtake us now !" " Bear a hand here then !" said the first speaker, " surely, Robert and Hodge can spare you for a moment, the poor young woman looks unseemly pale; you, Edmund, where is the box with the strong waters, and...
Page 76 - Heaven forbid that the old leaven should [K>ison my heart !" returned the other, who was nettled by his sarcastic manner, " but it appeared that the voice of the maiden was known to me, and if it be she whom I suspect, she is the daughter of an honest man, whose child I would not willingly leave in peril !" " Thou art marvellously generous !" replied his friend, " but who waits for us, uses not to like delay : though I forgot, perchance 'twill pleasure her to wait for thce," he continued, his lip...
Page 82 - Shooter's hill, and the land around it luxuriant with the stately elm and birch. Gilbert having mounted behind Lucy, that he might support her ; Ralph was firmly bound and placed upon a horse before one of the men who had been waiting, and...
Page 28 - ... she added, turning with a timid air to the stranger, " may it please you to go there, and receive the thanks which I know my father will be prompt to pay, to him who has warded from his daughter the evils of this heavy night, which has deprived him of his niece, and much I fear me, of hie friend...
Page 111 - ... of whose manners, her youth, and beauty, were not calculated to check. " I pray you !" said Gertrude, whose sensitive modesty recoiled from their rude gaze, " I pray you, will the Italian captain give me audience for a moment ?"
Page 70 - ... the direction in which she was being conveyed. Softly rising, she stole across the cabin, at the upper end of which she perceived a window, with a shutter drawn across it. To reach the window, she was compelled to pass the couch on which Ralph slept, and she sickened to behold it all stained with the blood which had flowed from his unbound wrist. Carefully pushing back the shutter, she looked out upon the night, it had cleared considerably...