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A sketch of the history of Maryland, during the three first years after its ... - Page 366
by John Leeds Bozman - 1811 - 387 pages
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Books - 1827 - 548 pages
...heart was never broken until now that he hears the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime siting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 440 pages
...expedient employed by Essex, which, if possible, was more provoking to the queen depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...the gentle •wind blowing her fair hair about her pare cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an...
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The works of sir Walter Ralegh. To which are prefixed the lives of ..., Volume 8

sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...three days, my sorrows were the less : but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 5

1830 - 428 pages
...or three days, my sorrows were the less, but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes...
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A civil and ecclesiastical history of England, to 1829, Volume 2

C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...aloae in prison, while she was afar off?" He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, huntinglike Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her cheeks like • nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel,...
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Southern Review, Volume 8

1831 - 548 pages
...типу years with so grenl love and desire in so many journiei, and am now left behind in a dark prisoo all alone." " I, that was wont to behold her riding...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sitting in the shade like • goddess, singing like an angel," Л .-. This " Venui," аз Hnro« remarks,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 8

Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...have followed so many years with so great love and desire in so many journies, and ato now left behind in a dark prison all alone." " I, that was wont to...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sitting in the shade like a goddess, singing like an angel," &c. This "Venus," as Hume remarks, was...
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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest. By A ..., Volume 7

Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...shewn to the queen : " How," he asks, " can I live alone in prison, while she is afar off- — I, who was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the lute like Orpheus. But once amiss, hath bereaved me of all." He then adds, " all those...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 2

Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 476 pages
...penned, potent with the condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows : " I was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how...
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Amenities of literature, sketches and characters of English literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows : " I was wont to behold^her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how...
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