The soldier of fortune1843 |
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... steps to the front without fracturing a leg or an arm in the effort . " " Ha ! " said the Cornet , rousing himself and lighting a fresh cigar ; " there was an unfortunate , I now remember , of that name , who was ex- coriated of fur ...
... steps to the front without fracturing a leg or an arm in the effort . " " Ha ! " said the Cornet , rousing himself and lighting a fresh cigar ; " there was an unfortunate , I now remember , of that name , who was ex- coriated of fur ...
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... step sons of fortune , whom , as Sir Walter has it , she treats with unceasing rigour , and ends with disinheriting altogether . Ergo , he's either married or buried , I'll wager the price of my commission . " " Come , Snaffle , " said ...
... step sons of fortune , whom , as Sir Walter has it , she treats with unceasing rigour , and ends with disinheriting altogether . Ergo , he's either married or buried , I'll wager the price of my commission . " " Come , Snaffle , " said ...
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... steps , and entered the hall of the mansion . As no one yet appeared , I paused to observe the splendour of the place I had intruded into . Several suits of polished armour hung around , together with the trophies of the chase ; pikes ...
... steps , and entered the hall of the mansion . As no one yet appeared , I paused to observe the splendour of the place I had intruded into . Several suits of polished armour hung around , together with the trophies of the chase ; pikes ...
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... step approached , the door at the further end of the apartment opened , and a female entered , the sight of whom by no means lessened the difficulties of my situation , for she was apparently under twenty years of age , and lovely as ...
... step approached , the door at the further end of the apartment opened , and a female entered , the sight of whom by no means lessened the difficulties of my situation , for she was apparently under twenty years of age , and lovely as ...
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... happened to be at that moment somewhat in front , stopped suddenly , looked round and turned deadly pale , appearing unable to move a step from the spot on which she VOL . I. E stood . The mastiff was , indeed , close upon OF FORTUNE . 73.
... happened to be at that moment somewhat in front , stopped suddenly , looked round and turned deadly pale , appearing unable to move a step from the spot on which she VOL . I. E stood . The mastiff was , indeed , close upon OF FORTUNE . 73.
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acquaintance Allworthy Altamont amongst amusing apartment appearance arms beautiful beheld bothie Bullyman Captain cavalier Cœur de Lion companion continued Cornet dark death delight Doctor door Dorothea dreadful Duchess Duke father favour fear feelings fellow felt fire Fort George gazed gentleman glance Grange half hand Harrowgate head heard Heaven honour horse hour Hubald Hussars instant instantly knew Lady Constance Lady de Clifford leave look Lord Hardenbrass mansion Marchioness Marston Hall ment Miss Villeroy mistress moat Montdidier morning murder never night officers once party passed play rapier Ratcliffe Blount regiment returned Richborough round Roussillon scene seated seemed seized servant SHAKSPERE side Sir Clinton Murdake Snaffle soldier SOLDIER OF FORTUNE soon sort spot Squire steed stood struck table d'hôte thee thing thought threw town turned village walked Warwickshire waters whilst Wickford Yoiks young youth
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Página 270 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides...
Página 279 - God! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Página 243 - Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel ; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.
Página 174 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet, they are assailable; Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 279 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Página 26 - ... level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea; and other times to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Página 280 - To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery ? O, yes it doth ; a thousand-fold it doth. And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely curds, His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, All which secure and sweetly he enjoys...
Página 72 - Peace, cousin, say no more : And now I will unclasp a secret book, And to your quick-conceiving discontents I'll read you matter deep and dangerous ; As full of peril, and advent'rous spirit, As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.
Página 119 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Página 280 - Ah, what a life were this! How sweet! How lovely! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds looking on their silly sheep Than doth a rich embroidered canopy To kings that fear their subjects