Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier: A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one, Volume 2Archibald Constable and Company Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London., 1826 - Great Britain - 370 pages |
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Albert Lee Alice ancient answered Wildrake apartment better betwixt Bevis Bletson Brownists called cavalier church cloak Colonel Everard Commissioners cousin Cromwell daugh daughter Desborough devil door doubt England erazed exclaimed eyes father fear feeling fellow gentleman hand Harrison hath head heard Heaven hold honour Independent Joceline Joceline's Joliffe keep King King's Oak knave light Lodge Long Parliament look Lord malignant Mark Markham Everard Master Holdenough Master Mayor ment military military saints neral never nigh old knight Parliament party person Phoebe pipe and tabor poor Presbyterian rapier rard recollection replied the keeper Rochecliffe roundheads royal seemed sequestration Sir Henry Lee soldier speak spoke stood sword tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou would'st thought thyself tion Tomkins tone truly trust turned uncle Everard voice warrant wild wont Woodstock words yonder young
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Page 18 - Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most Mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Page 177 - For there in lofty air was seen to stand The bold Protector of the conquer'd land ; Drawn in that look with which he wept and swore, Turn'd out the Members, and made fast the door, Ridding the House of every knave and drone, Forced, though it grieved his soul, to rule alone.
Page 3 - Woodstock — I am told so, at least, for I never saw it, having scarce time, when at the place, to view the magnificence of Blenheim, its painted halls and tapestried bowers, and then return in due...
Page 187 - But when, as it often happened, he had a mind to play the orator, for the benefit of people's ears without enlightening their understanding, Cromwell was wont to invest his meaning, or that which seemed to be his meaning, in such a mist of words, surrounding it with so many exclusions and exceptions, and fortifying it with such a labyrinth of parentheses, that though one of the most shrewd men in England, he was, perhaps, the most unintelligible speaker that ever perplexed an audience. It has been...