The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton: A NovelHarper & Brothers, 1874 - 216 páginas |
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The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) William Black Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton: A Novel (Classic Reprint) William Black Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 324 - Dool and wae for the order, sent our lads to the Border ! The English, for ance, by guile wan the day ; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, are cauld in the clay. We'll hear nae mair lilting at the ewe-milking; Women and bairns are heartless and wae; Sighing and moaning on ilka green loaning — The Flowers of the Forest are a
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Página 62 - I fly from pomp, I fly from plate, I fly from Falsehood's specious grin ; Freedom I love, and form I hate, And choose my lodgings at an inn. Here, waiter! take my sordid ore, Which lackeys else might hope to win; It buys what courts have not in store, It buys me freedom at an inn.
Página 85 - Stonor succeeded to these, and then the shades of evening overtook me. The moon rose in the clearest sky I ever saw, by whose solemn light I paced on slowly, without company or any interruption to the range of my thoughts. About a mile before I reached Oxford, all the bells tolled in different notes ; the clocks of every college answered one another and sounded forth (some in deeper, some in a softer tone) that it was eleven at night. All this was no ill preparation to the life I have led since among...
Página 168 - If She inspire, and He approve my lays. Say what strange motive, Goddess! could compel A well-bred Lord to assault a gentle Belle? O say what stranger cause, yet unexplored, Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?
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Página 406 - Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We know thee and we love thee best, For art thou not of British blood? Should war's mad blast again be blown, Permit not thou the tyrant powers To fight thy mother here alone, But let thy broadsides roar with ours.