Alicia de Lacy, by the author of 'The loyalists'.

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Pagina 37 - Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough} To mask thy monstrous visage ? Seek none, conspiracy; Hide it in smiles and affability: For if thou put thy native semblance on, Not Erebus itself were dim enough To hide thee from prevention.
Pagina 268 - Woe to the hand that s,hed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds, now do I prophesy, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; 'Domestic fury, and fierce civil strife.
Pagina 110 - She hath offer'd to the doom, Which unrevers'd stands in effectual force, A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears; With them, upon her knees her humble self, Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them As if, but now, they waxed pale
Pagina 76 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Pagina 152 - bloody, aud unnatural acts ; Of accidental judgements, casual slaughters; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause.'; And, in the upshot, purposes mistook
Pagina 228 - endure To follow with allegiance a fallen Lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i'th
Pagina 1 - Down royal state ! all you sage counsellors hence ; And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness : Now, neighbour confines,
Pagina 195 - Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice, But with a noble fury, and fair spirit, Seeing his reputation touch'd to death, He did oppose his foe.
Pagina 110 - With them, upon her knees her humble self, Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them As if, but now, they waxed pale

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