Brave Dame Mary; Or, The Siege of Corfe Castle |
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Page 70 - Happy are the people that are in such a case ; yea, blessed are the people who have the Lord for their God.
Page 173 - Pack, clouds, away! and welcome, day! With night we banish sorrow. Sweet air, blow soft; mount, lark, aloft To give my Love good-morrow! Wings from the wind to please her mind, Notes from the lark I'll borrow: Bird, prune thy wing! nightingale, sing! To give my Love good-morrow!
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Page 36 - One by one thy duties wait thee, Let thy whole strength go to each ; Let no future dreams elate thee, Learn thou first what these can teach.
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Page 117 - It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles. Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire.
Page 60 - Bright through a whole December day. These are the tones to brace and cheer The lonely watcher of the fold, When nights are dark, and foemen near, When visions fade and hearts grow cold.
Page vi - Justice of his late Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and of the Privy Council to his late Majesty King Charles the First of blessed memory : who, having had the honour to have borne, with a constancy and courage above her sex, a noble proportion of the late calamities, and the happiness to have outlived them so far as to have seen the restitution of the government, with great peace of mind laid down her most desired life, the 19th day of April, 1661.