The Red Barn: A Tale, Founded on FactJ. Bennett, 1831 - 716 էջ |
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... passing peasant boy , and the song of the lark above , shall there be found to give life to the scene . - The village , when we saw it , contained about twenty houses which clustered together on the gentle slope of a hill , the top of ...
... passing peasant boy , and the song of the lark above , shall there be found to give life to the scene . - The village , when we saw it , contained about twenty houses which clustered together on the gentle slope of a hill , the top of ...
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... passed the road ; and rising from the other side , the pathway to the village church and church yard , the walls and grave - stones of which latter mentioned , could be seen by the passenger through wide - spreading and majestic trees ...
... passed the road ; and rising from the other side , the pathway to the village church and church yard , the walls and grave - stones of which latter mentioned , could be seen by the passenger through wide - spreading and majestic trees ...
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... passed on the preceding day , and all the gaudy images of the future , floating in fantastic colours before her heated imagination . Notwithstanding the reception of the night before , Harry ventured to make his appearance at the ...
... passed on the preceding day , and all the gaudy images of the future , floating in fantastic colours before her heated imagination . Notwithstanding the reception of the night before , Harry ventured to make his appearance at the ...
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... passed in all those varying sensations and ideas which had occupied her ever since her interview with the fortune ... passing with the rapidity of lightning , from one image to another of an oppo- site character ; -sometimes dwelling on ...
... passed in all those varying sensations and ideas which had occupied her ever since her interview with the fortune ... passing with the rapidity of lightning , from one image to another of an oppo- site character ; -sometimes dwelling on ...
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... passed , appropriately mounted , but in none of them could she discern the slightest approximation to the hero of her fancy . At last a figure appears , the sight of which instantly struck her with the most trem- bling agitation from ...
... passed , appropriately mounted , but in none of them could she discern the slightest approximation to the hero of her fancy . At last a figure appears , the sight of which instantly struck her with the most trem- bling agitation from ...
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Էջ 355 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Էջ 484 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Էջ 1 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please: How often have I loiter'd o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endear'd each scene ! How often have I...
Էջ 674 - April next, and that, at two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, you be taken thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck till you are dead! dead! dead ! And may the Almighty God have mercy on your soul...
Էջ 180 - Tis raging noon ; and, vertical, the Sun Darts on the head direct his forceful rays. O'er heaven and earth, far as the ranging eye Can sweep, a dazzling deluge reigns; and all From pole to pole is undistinguished blaze.
Էջ 439 - Come unto me all ye who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Էջ 643 - EF, one mortal wound, of the depth of four inches, and of the breadth of half an inch ; of which said mortal wound he the said EF then and there instantly died.
Էջ 181 - Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail ! Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! Delicious is your shelter to the soul, As to the hunted hart the sallying spring...
Էջ 620 - ... a third liaison with the man who became her deliberate murderer. William Corder was the son of an opulent farmer at Polstead, and having become acquainted with the unfortunate girl Marten the consequence of an illicit intercourse which took place between them, was a child. From that time he became much attached to her, and was a frequent visitor at her father's house. The child died within a short period of its birth, and from the circumstances of its...
Էջ 205 - I received you ; Courted, and sought to raise you to your merits : My house, my table, nay, my fortune too, My very self was yours; you might have...