Sylvia's Lovers, Band 1B. Tauchnitz, 1863 |
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Seite 288 - Tell her," continued Kinraid, rousing himself for another effort, " what yo've seen. Tell her I'll come back to her. Bid her not forget the great oath we took together this morning ; she's as much my wife as if we'd gone to church ; — I'll come back and marry her afore long.
Seite 89 - In looking back to the last century, it appears curious to see how little our ancestors had the power of putting two things together, and perceiving either the discord or harmony thus produced. Is it because we are farther off from those times, and have, consequently, a greater range of vision ? Will our descendants have a wonder about us, such as we have about the inconsistency of our forefathers, or a surprise at our blindness that we do not perceive that, holding such and such opinions, our course...
Seite 10 - So you may imagine the press-gang had no easy time of it on the Yorkshire coast. In other places they inspired fear, but here rage and hatred. The Lord Mayor of York was warned on 20th January, 1777, by an anonymous letter, that "if those men were not sent from the city on or before the following Tuesday, his lordship's own dwelling, and the Mansion-house also, should be burned to the ground." Perhaps something of the ill-feeling that prevailed on the subject was owing to the fact which I have noticed...
Seite 226 - Monkshaven this eighty years and more; and I dunnot think there's a man living — or dead, for that matter — as can say Fosters wronged him of a penny, or gave short measure to a child or a Cousin Betty.