Alicia de Lacy, by the author of 'The loyalists'.1814 |
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abbess affection affliction Agatha alarm Alicia Amesbury answered arms army attire banner baron Beatrice beauty Bishop Bishop of Exeter blessing bosom Canford child Conradine Countess of Lancaster court cruelty daughter dear death Earl of Lancaster Earl of Surrey Edward endeavoured England English escape Eubulo exclaimed eyes faithful fate Father Nicholas favour fear feelings fortitude grave grief Guido habits hand happy heard heart heaven Henry Holland holy honour hope house of Lancaster husband impostor indulgence King Kirklee knight Lady Emmeline looked Lord Surrey Matilda ment mercy mind misery monk Montford mother never noble numbers nuptial passions peace Pendergrass pious pity Plantagenet Pontefract prayers Prince recollected replied returned Robert Holland saint Sandal castle Scots shew silent Simon de Montford Sir Hilary solemn soon sorrow soul surely surprize Surrey's sword tears thee Thomas Plantagenet thou thought tion trembling veil weep wife Wimborn minster wish woes
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Page 252 - Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughter'd saints, whose bones Lie scatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold ; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worship'd stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans.
Page 295 - hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine. Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state, How often must it love, how often hate I How often hope, despair, resent, regret, Conceal,
Page 74 - with fins of lead, And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! — Trust ye? With every minute you do change a mind, And call
Page 148 - Lean not on earth, •twill pierce thce to the heart: A broken reed at best; but oft a spear. On its sharp point Peace bleeds, and Hope expires.
Page 21 - Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, Which, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But, turning, trembles too. A
Page 165 - I dare not wait upon I would, like the poor cat i' the adage.
Page 1 - side, • Great Xerxes comes to seize the certain prey, "And starves exhausted regions in his way,; Attendant flattery counts his myriads o'er;
Page 187 - Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between the pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposite.
Page 336 - And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while
Page 333 - the sayings of another are esteemed, thine slighted ; others ask and obtain, thou beggest, and art refused; they are cried up, thou disgraced; and while they are employed, thou art laid by as fit for nothing; or an unworthy person commands thee, and rules thee