Rufus; or, The red king [by J.G. Grant].

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Стр. 3 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A dancing Shape, an Image gay— To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A
Стр. 4 - A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles 1
Стр. 148 - you ! take mine office. O wretched Fool! That liv'st to make thine honesty a vice ! 0 monstrous world ! take note, take note, O world ! To be direct and honest is not safe '. 1 thank you for this profit!
Стр. 260 - Now the storm begins to lour, (Haste, the loom of hell prepare,) Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles in the darkened air. Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet, Hauberk crash and helmet ring
Стр. 195 - attention claim. And Warkworth, proud of Percy's name,— And next they crossed themselves to hear The whitening breakers .sound so near, Where, boiling through the rocks, they roar On Dunstanborough's caverned shore. Thy tower, proud Bamborough, marked they there, King Ida's Castle, huge and
Стр. 260 - Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet, Hauberk crash and helmet ring ! Horror covers all the heath, Clouds of carnage blot the sun, Sisters, weave the web of death ! Sisters, cease, the work is done.
Стр. 3 - me the noblest youth of present time, Whose trembling fancy would to love give birth; Some god or hero from the Olympian clime Returned, to seek a consort upon earth; Or, in no doubtful prospect, let me see The brightest star of ages yet to be, And I will mate and match him blissfully.
Стр. 95 - sung, Seemed in mine ear a death-peal rung, Such as in nunneries they toll For some departing sister's soul ? S»y, what may this portend?"— Then first the Palmer silence broke, (The live-long day he had not spoke)
Стр. 273 - A house there is (and that's enough) From whence, one fatal morning, issues A brace of warriors, not in buff, But rustling in their silks and tissues. The first came cap-a-pee from France, Her conquering destiny fulfilling ; Whom meaner beauties
Стр. 164 - from midst them forth he pass'd Long way through hostile scorn ; which he sustained Superior, nor of violence feared aught; And, with retorted scorn, his back he turned On those proud towers

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