The Tor Hill, Band 1

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H. Colburn, 1826 - 350 Seiten
 

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Seite 304 - Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Seite 304 - Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Seite 234 - Out of my careful breast; Toll on the passing bell, Ring out the doleful knell, Let the sound my death tell, For I must die, There is no remedy, For now I die.
Seite 303 - Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook ? Or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down ? Canst thou put an hook into his nose ? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn...
Seite 98 - To Mistress Isabel Pennell BY Saint Mary, my lady, Your mammy and your daddy Brought forth a goodly baby. My maiden Isabel, Reflaring rosabel...
Seite 276 - Land and Customs of Manors: — " After dinner, all the minstrels repair to the Priory Gate, in Tutbury, without any manner of weapons, attending the turning out of the bull, which the bailiff of the Manor is obliged to provide, and is there to have the tips of his horns sawed off, his ears and tail cut off, his body smeared all over with soap, and his nose Mourn full of beaten pepper.
Seite 60 - Then out burst the ordnance on both sides with fire, flame, and hideous noise ; and the master gunner of the English slew the master gunner of Scotland, and beat all his men from their guns, so that the Scottish ordnance did no harm to the Englishmen...
Seite 96 - The other met the same fate during the Great Rebellion. The blossoms of this tree were esteemed such great curiosities as to become an object of gain to the merchants of Bristol, who not only disposed of them to the inhabitants of their own city, but exported them to different parts of Europe. The...
Seite 277 - ... the King of Music's bull, but if the bull gets into Derbyshire sound and uncut, he is the Lord Prior's again. If the bull be taken and a piece of him cut off, then he...

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