Brambletye House, Or, Cavaliers and Roundheads: A Novel, Volume 2H. Colburn, 1826 |
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Page 51
... Poor Sir John protested his sorrow for whatever had taken place , of which , however , he entertained no dis- tinct recollection ; laid the whole blame upon the claret , which he maintained to be half bran- dy , very different from his ...
... Poor Sir John protested his sorrow for whatever had taken place , of which , however , he entertained no dis- tinct recollection ; laid the whole blame upon the claret , which he maintained to be half bran- dy , very different from his ...
Page 55
... poor Baronet , unable to dis- charge that debt , and too honest to run away from it , yielded partly from weakness , partly from good - tempered indolence to her impor- tunities ; and actually carried his Dutch dul- cinea with him , to ...
... poor Baronet , unable to dis- charge that debt , and too honest to run away from it , yielded partly from weakness , partly from good - tempered indolence to her impor- tunities ; and actually carried his Dutch dul- cinea with him , to ...
Page 60
... poor Sir John , who grew weary of altercation , and found coaxing of no avail , would have believed that she had a design of starving him to death in his own house , had he not observed , that she denied herself the smallest ...
... poor Sir John , who grew weary of altercation , and found coaxing of no avail , would have believed that she had a design of starving him to death in his own house , had he not observed , that she denied herself the smallest ...
Page 68
... poor mother , I presume , had no choice to exercise when she left you , " said Jocelyn , " and as so many years had elapsed since her death " " " All her own doing , " cried Sir John , rendered at once unfeeling and unjust by a sense of ...
... poor mother , I presume , had no choice to exercise when she left you , " said Jocelyn , " and as so many years had elapsed since her death " " " All her own doing , " cried Sir John , rendered at once unfeeling and unjust by a sense of ...
Page 93
... as if it were quite dead . No lights in the windows ; no smoke from the chimneys ; no hunters in the stable ; no claret in the cellar ; and its roof off too , showing its poor old bones . Zooks ! when I BRAMBLETYE HOUSE . 93.
... as if it were quite dead . No lights in the windows ; no smoke from the chimneys ; no hunters in the stable ; no claret in the cellar ; and its roof off too , showing its poor old bones . Zooks ! when I BRAMBLETYE HOUSE . 93.
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Page 235 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse : which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 159 - The Queen arrived with a train of Portuguese ladies in their monstrous fardingales, or guard-infantes, their complexions olivader * and sufficiently unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit, her fore-top long and turned aside very strangely. She was yet of the handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though low of stature, prettily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her teeth wronging her mouth by sticking a little too far out ; for the rest lovely enough.
Page 177 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth...
Page 225 - We'll prove it just, with treacherous bait To make the preying Trout our prey. And think ourselves, in such an hour, Happier than those, though not so high, Who, like Leviathans, devour Of meaner men the smaller fry.
Page 268 - And her eyes, she did enslave me. But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder. Melting joys about her move, Killing pleasures, wounding blisses, She can dress her eyes in love, And her lips can arm with kisses; Angels listen when she speaks, She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break, Should we live one day asunder.
Page 41 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 177 - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Page 268 - My dear Mistress has a heart Soft as those kind looks she gave me ; When, with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me ; But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wander, That my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.
Page 318 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,' Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be it so, since he Who now is...
Page 60 - OLIVER'S gone to the Dogs, Oh ! No I do mistake, Hee's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is call'd the Stygian Lake. But Cerberus that Great Porter Did read him such a Lecture, That made him to roar When he came a-shoar For being Lord Protector.