The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Band 9Edward Bull, 1836 |
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... Osmond . With this view he selected from among his own tenantry a young man , about eighteen , who promised , from his demeanour and conduct , to turn out a perfect soldier . This youth was re- ceived into the castle , and encouraged in ...
... Osmond . With this view he selected from among his own tenantry a young man , about eighteen , who promised , from his demeanour and conduct , to turn out a perfect soldier . This youth was re- ceived into the castle , and encouraged in ...
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... Osmond , no longer boys , sprang into man's estate . In their charac- ters , there was this essential difference- Edmund was almost a passive sojourner in life's city , while Osmond was overflowing with passions of all sorts , and could ...
... Osmond , no longer boys , sprang into man's estate . In their charac- ters , there was this essential difference- Edmund was almost a passive sojourner in life's city , while Osmond was overflowing with passions of all sorts , and could ...
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... Osmond made acquainted with the lady , than he was as desperately smitten with her as his brother had been . Accustomed to give way to every impulse of passion , Osmond no sooner found himself in this condition , than he resolved to ...
... Osmond made acquainted with the lady , than he was as desperately smitten with her as his brother had been . Accustomed to give way to every impulse of passion , Osmond no sooner found himself in this condition , than he resolved to ...
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... Osmond's plan entirely failed ; and what was still more vexing , he could not discover by what means . That which was mere rage before , now mounted into abso- lute madness . He appeared ever in a pa- roxysm , and his attendants ...
... Osmond's plan entirely failed ; and what was still more vexing , he could not discover by what means . That which was mere rage before , now mounted into abso- lute madness . He appeared ever in a pa- roxysm , and his attendants ...
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... Osmond , sick of longer delay , in- sisted on the Moor's completion of his pro- mise by his compassing the death of his brother . Isolom no longer saw reason to resist its execution : he had worked Os- mond into a traitor , and he ...
... Osmond , sick of longer delay , in- sisted on the Moor's completion of his pro- mise by his compassing the death of his brother . Isolom no longer saw reason to resist its execution : he had worked Os- mond into a traitor , and he ...
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Seite 88 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians ; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Seite 88 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Seite 11 - You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion.
Seite 37 - O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet...
Seite 12 - It is often seen that bad husbands have very good wives ; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husbands' kindness when it comes, or that the wives take a pride in their patience ; but this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends consent, for then they will be sure to make good their own folly.
Seite 12 - ... to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, When a man should marry? — 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Seite 194 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 157 - Jiggerkhars are mostly women. It is said, moreover, that they can bring intelligence from a great distance in a short space of time; and if they are thrown into a river, with a stone tied to them, they nevertheless will not sink. In order to deprive any one of this wicked power, they brand his temples, and every joint in his body, cram his eyes with salt, suspend him for forty days in a subterraneous cavern, and repeat over him certain incantations.
Seite 12 - Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses; so as a man may have a...
Seite 157 - It is said they can bring intelligence from a long distance in a short space of time, and if they are thrown into a river with a stone tied to them, they nevertheless will not sink. In order to deprive any one of this wicked power, they brand his temples and every joint of his body, cram his eyes with salt, suspend him for forty days in a subterraneous chamber, and repeat over him certain incantations.