The talismanArchibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London., 1825 - 368 páginas |
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... pleasure , ” said the physi- cian , " it were sinful pride should the sage , whom he has enlightened , refuse to prolong existence , or assuage agony . To the sage , the cure of a mi- serable groom , of a poor dog , and of a conquering ...
... pleasure , ” said the physi- cian , " it were sinful pride should the sage , whom he has enlightened , refuse to prolong existence , or assuage agony . To the sage , the cure of a mi- serable groom , of a poor dog , and of a conquering ...
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... pleasure to give or refuse me time for Christian shrift - if man denies it , may God grant me the absolution which I would otherwise ask of his Church . But whether I dié on the instant , or half an hour hence , I equally beseech your ...
... pleasure to give or refuse me time for Christian shrift - if man denies it , may God grant me the absolution which I would otherwise ask of his Church . But whether I dié on the instant , or half an hour hence , I equally beseech your ...
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... pleasure that you die undegraded - without muti- lation of your body , or shame to your arms - and that your head be severed from the trunk by the sword of the executioner . " " It is kind , " said the knight , in a low and rather ...
... pleasure that you die undegraded - without muti- lation of your body , or shame to your arms - and that your head be severed from the trunk by the sword of the executioner . " " It is kind , " said the knight , in a low and rather ...
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... pleasure , " he said , at length , " that you have speech with a holy man , and I have met on the passage hither ... pleasure that you prepare for instant death . ” " God's pleasure and the King's be done , ” " 35 TALES OF THE CRUSADERS .
... pleasure , " he said , at length , " that you have speech with a holy man , and I have met on the passage hither ... pleasure that you prepare for instant death . ” " God's pleasure and the King's be done , ” " 35 TALES OF THE CRUSADERS .
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Sir Walter Scott. " God's pleasure and the King's be done , ” re- " I neither contest plied the knight , patiently . the justice of the sentence , nor desire delay of the execution . " 1 De Vaux began to leave the tent , but very slowly ...
Sir Walter Scott. " God's pleasure and the King's be done , ” re- " I neither contest plied the knight , patiently . the justice of the sentence , nor desire delay of the execution . " 1 De Vaux began to leave the tent , but very slowly ...
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Página 237 - ... companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. He forgets neither friend nor foe — remembers, and with accuracy, both benefit and injury. He hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's falsehood. You may bribe a soldier to slay a man with his sword, or a witness to take life by false accusation ; but you cannot make a hound tear his benefactor — he is the friend of man, save when man justly incurs his enmity.
Página 159 - Alarum'd 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.
Página 310 - ... across the cushion, applying the edge so dexterously, and with so little apparent effort, that the cushion seemed rather to fall asunder than to be divided by violence.
Página 265 - I weep not for an absent swain, for time may happier hours recall, And parted lovers meet again. " I weep not for the silent dead, Their pains are past, their sorrows o'er, And those that loved their steps must tread, When death shall join to part no more.