Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 7J. M Lewer, 1841 |
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... better hereafter . ' With this , he quitted the cell with his attendants , and barred the door outside . Left alone , Viviana , who had hitherto restrained her anguish , suffered it to find vent in tears . Never had she felt so utterly ...
... better hereafter . ' With this , he quitted the cell with his attendants , and barred the door outside . Left alone , Viviana , who had hitherto restrained her anguish , suffered it to find vent in tears . Never had she felt so utterly ...
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... better than to be left at the mercy of such men . At certain times , and not unfrequently at the most awful moments , a double current of thought will flow through the brain , and at this frightful juncture it was so with Viviana ...
... better than to be left at the mercy of such men . At certain times , and not unfrequently at the most awful moments , a double current of thought will flow through the brain , and at this frightful juncture it was so with Viviana ...
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... better let us stop here . This is mere child's play com- pared with what is to come . ' No answer being returned , the tormentor took a mallet and struck one of the pieces of wood from under Viviana's feet . The shock was dreadful , and ...
... better let us stop here . This is mere child's play com- pared with what is to come . ' No answer being returned , the tormentor took a mallet and struck one of the pieces of wood from under Viviana's feet . The shock was dreadful , and ...
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... plead and preach , their toil ' tis all in vain , Sure labour of the heels and hands is better than the brain : VOL . VII . And a dancing , & c . 2 less and mute ? Sweetly singeth the tea - kettle 17 BY GEORGE DANIEL.
... plead and preach , their toil ' tis all in vain , Sure labour of the heels and hands is better than the brain : VOL . VII . And a dancing , & c . 2 less and mute ? Sweetly singeth the tea - kettle 17 BY GEORGE DANIEL.
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... better order of mendicants , whom time had touched with a gentle and reverend hand , and on whose smooth , pale brows , hung the blossoms of the grave , arrested our attention with the fol- lowing quaint ditty , which pleased us ...
... better order of mendicants , whom time had touched with a gentle and reverend hand , and on whose smooth , pale brows , hung the blossoms of the grave , arrested our attention with the fol- lowing quaint ditty , which pleased us ...
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appeared Barnardiston Bartholomew Bartholomew Fair beautiful Bohea Bosky called Captain Carliel Catesby CONS Countess cried Dagleish dance daughter dear delight Diggs door DRYSALTER Dunchurch Earl Everard Digby exclaimed eyes fair father fear feel Gipps give GRISK Guy Fawkes hand head hear heard heart Ho-Fi honour hope horse hour Humphrey Chetham Ipgreve John King knew lady laugh Little Britain live look Lord Mabby matter means merry mind Miss morning Mounteagle mountebank Mump never night observed once party passed poor prisoner RASC rejoined replied Fawkes returned Robert Winter round Rovigo Salisbury scarcely seemed Sir William Waad smile Smithfield So-Sli soon spirit Stanley Street sure tell thee there's thing thou thought tion Topcliffe Tresham turned Uncle Timothy venerable gentleman Viviana voice werry window woman word young
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