Waking dreams, by C.M.J.Saunders & Otley, 1839 - 270 Seiten |
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ainsel appeared atte aunt awaye Baron Beaufort beauty beside Bessie blood bold bonnie bride carriage castle caubeen cold Courcy Courcy's cried Darby dark daughter dear Donald Donald Graham Dublin Duncan eyes fair father fayre Annabelle felt frae gallant gazed girl give grave grey hand haste heard heart Help and Hold hill horse hounds Hugh De Lacy inne itte Jean Jeannie John De Courcy Killiney Kilmashogue King John Lady Augusta Lady Clanroyston Laurance leddy lette Lindor Lindsey look Lord Ronald Mabel Annesley manye mountain Munroe never Newry night o'er Pentland hills poor Post 8vo praye proud puir Rapparee Redmond O'Hanlon replied seemed shoulders fly side Sir Amorie Sir Henry smiled soul stand steed stood thee thing thou thought trewe turned Vigil voice whilst wild woman yeer honor young
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Seite 173 - Night on the waves ! and the moon is on high, Hung like a gem on the brow of the sky, Treading its depths in the power of her might, And turning the clouds, as they pass her, to light...
Seite 9 - Anger or remonstrance appeared useless— the alternative of passing the night in such a place, even if his adored Florence had not been expecting his arrival, was not to be thought of— Sir Henry determined to proceed at all hazards; and although it appeared to Horner little less than an act of suicide, considering the description of the carriage, horses, and driver, to commit his life (along with that of the said Horner) to the keeping of Jerry Sullivan's post chay, and the " four greys," under...
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Seite 10 - ... imaginary perils, Horner at least had his full share ; Sir Henry, of course, was too much occupied by the anticipated rapturous meeting with his beloved, to give a thought to such a sublunary matter, as that of being robbed and murdered. And yet the fair one need not have been offended, or considered her lover as indifferent, unkind, or selfish, if at that moment he thought little of her, and much of his own bones, of which the joints were in the most imminent danger of being dislocated by every...
Seite 4 - Flanaghan and the four gallant greys, now to all appearance very peaceably - disposed personages. Sir Henry meditated on the impossibility of arriving at Shanlinabracken Castle at the appointed time, and on the alarm and distress of his beautiful Florence at his not arriving (as in duty bound) before the hour. Horner meditated on robbers, murderers, whiteboys — heard the report of a pistol in the grunt of every pig, and transformed in imagination the plover's call into the signal whistle of some...
Seite 11 - Homer leaned back, shutting his teeth fast, and holding his breath and the side of the carriage ; the vision of robbers and whiteboys disappeared from his eyes, to give place to the more probable expectation of another overturn, still more desperate in its consequences than the last. This time, however, his apprehensions were not exactly realized ; the hill, although steep and rugged, was short : the
Seite 7 - Betty, the wife of the landlord, was a pretty dark-eyed slattern, with a child on one arm, and another hanging on the skirt of her gown ; with her disengaged hand she took up her apron, and wiped, as desired, the chair and table — and no chair or table ever stood more in need of such ceremony ; then curtseying to
Seite 6 - Chay," standing under the shelter of an adjoining shed : over the house door was inscribed, in capital letters, " ENTIRTAINMINT FUR MAN AND HORS." And beneath, in a smaller type, " Lycinsid fur Post hors's." Sir Henry groaned in spirit — nevertheless he was too much interested in the prospect which awaited him at the end of his journey, to give himself up to despair ; accordingly he ordered a relay of fresh horses, and the post chaise (such as it was) to be made ready with all possible expedition....