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... knight of great name and honour . " And the good Sir Thomas Norreys , the Lord President of Munster , who also received his death - wound on the field , contrasts most favourably with his successor , the scheming and politic Sir George ...
... knight of great name and honour . " And the good Sir Thomas Norreys , the Lord President of Munster , who also received his death - wound on the field , contrasts most favourably with his successor , the scheming and politic Sir George ...
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... Knight Marinell . I believe this to be the case , and that Marinell's combat with Britomart - whom he " strokes upon the breast " -is descriptive of an affaire de cœur between Raleigh and the Queen . But for the further elucidation of ...
... Knight Marinell . I believe this to be the case , and that Marinell's combat with Britomart - whom he " strokes upon the breast " -is descriptive of an affaire de cœur between Raleigh and the Queen . But for the further elucidation of ...
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... knight from Cambrensis and Holling- shed : - " A man he was , both honest and wise ; and , for truth and valour , very noble and famous ; a man of his word , of constant mind , and of a certain bashfulness : * They were descended from ...
... knight from Cambrensis and Holling- shed : - " A man he was , both honest and wise ; and , for truth and valour , very noble and famous ; a man of his word , of constant mind , and of a certain bashfulness : * They were descended from ...
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... knight , with his daughter a very lovely woman - and a man named John Nugent , were seated in a large room of the castle , one evening in the month of May , in the year just mentioned . John Nugent was dark and high- shouldered , with a ...
... knight , with his daughter a very lovely woman - and a man named John Nugent , were seated in a large room of the castle , one evening in the month of May , in the year just mentioned . John Nugent was dark and high- shouldered , with a ...
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... knight was in a state of blissful ignorance . Nugent was too old - he was over forty - too debauched , and too bad a man to feel much inconvenience from a disappointment in love ; but it chagrined him to think another should pluck ripe ...
... knight was in a state of blissful ignorance . Nugent was too old - he was over forty - too debauched , and too bad a man to feel much inconvenience from a disappointment in love ; but it chagrined him to think another should pluck ripe ...
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The Last Earl of Desmond [By C.B. Gibson] Charles Bernard Gibson,James Fitz-Thomas No preview available - 2018 |
The Last Earl of Desmond: A Historical Romance of 1599-1603 V1 (1854) Charles Bernard Gibson No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 278 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side; But in his duty, prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 250 - How can I, except some man should guide me ? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter : and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this ? of himself, or of...
Page 167 - Thou whose locks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet...
Page 250 - And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.
Page 247 - Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place ; Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 252 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...
Page 265 - Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
Page 248 - But he, my Lyon, and my noble Lord, How does he find in cruell hart to hate Her, that him lov'd, and ever most adord As the God of my life ? why hath he me abhord ? " Redounding teares did choke th...
Page 123 - ... and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low.