The headsman; or, The Abbaye des vigerons, by the author of 'The bravo' &c, Band 3

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Seite 257 - We rest — a dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise — one wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away...
Seite 138 - Anon a figure enters, quaintly neat, All pride and business, bustle and conceit, With looks unaltered by these scenes of woe, With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go; He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye...
Seite 138 - With speed that, entering, speaks his haste to go, He bids the gazing throng around him fly, And carries fate and physic in his eye : A potent quack, long versed in human ills, Who first insults the victim whom he kills ; Whose murd'rous hand a drowsy Bench protect, And whose most tender mercy is neglect.

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