The Headsman: Or, The Abbaye Des Vignerons. A Tale, Band 3

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R. Bentley, 1833
 

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Seite 265 - 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 1 - And Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, Chills the pale morn, and bids his driving sleets Deform the day delightless...
Seite 146 - 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 146 - 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.
Seite 29 - Through this gap On and say nothing, lest a word, a breath, Bring down a winter's snow, enough to whelm The armed files that, night and day. were seen Winding from cliff to cliff in loose array, To conquer at Marengo.

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