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... Robber , The Adventure of the Englishman , 340 354 PART IV . THE MONEY - DIGGERS . Hell - gate , Kidd the Pirate , 365 369 The Devil and Tom Walker , 376 Wolfert Webber , or Golden Dreams , 393 The Adventure of the Black Fisherman , 420 ...
... Robber , The Adventure of the Englishman , 340 354 PART IV . THE MONEY - DIGGERS . Hell - gate , Kidd the Pirate , 365 369 The Devil and Tom Walker , 376 Wolfert Webber , or Golden Dreams , 393 The Adventure of the Black Fisherman , 420 ...
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... Robbers , and bloody Turks , might answer tolerably well ; but then they must come from some established well - known name , or the public would not look at them . 66 At last I offered to leave my poem with a bookseller , to read it ...
... Robbers , and bloody Turks , might answer tolerably well ; but then they must come from some established well - known name , or the public would not look at them . 66 At last I offered to leave my poem with a bookseller , to read it ...
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... robbers and rebels to write about . I like your Jack . Straw , sir , -he's a home - made hero . I like him , sir - I like him exceedingly . He's English to the backbone - damme - Give me honest old England after all ! Them's my ...
... robbers and rebels to write about . I like your Jack . Straw , sir , -he's a home - made hero . I like him , sir - I like him exceedingly . He's English to the backbone - damme - Give me honest old England after all ! Them's my ...
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... robbers in the good old times ; those were glorious poetical days . The merry crew of Sherwood Forest , who led such a roving picturesque life ' under the greenwood tree . ' I have often wished to visit their haunts , and tread the ...
... robbers in the good old times ; those were glorious poetical days . The merry crew of Sherwood Forest , who led such a roving picturesque life ' under the greenwood tree . ' I have often wished to visit their haunts , and tread the ...
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... robbers , and highwaymen . I was put out of conceit of my subject , and , what was worse , I was lightened of my purse , in which was almost every farthing I had in the world . So I abandoned Sir Richard Steele's cottage in despair ...
... robbers , and highwaymen . I was put out of conceit of my subject , and , what was worse , I was lightened of my purse , in which was almost every farthing I had in the world . So I abandoned Sir Richard Steele's cottage in despair ...
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Página 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 230 - ... true sympathy; how few love us for ourselves; how few will befriend us in our misfortunes; then it is that we think of the mother we have lost. It is true I had always loved my mother, even in my most heedless days; but I felt how inconsiderate and ineffectual had been my love. My heart melted as I retraced the days of infancy, when I was led by a mother's hand, and rocked to sleep in a mother's arms, and was without care or sorrow. "O my mother!
Página 363 - Now I remember those old women's words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter's tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts that glide by night About the place where treasure hath been hid...
Página xi - There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.