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I heard the trampling of feet, the sound of Settle's voice shouting an order, and then a dismal yell and clash of steel as we flung open the gate. "Jacques!" scream'd the old gentleman: "my poor Jacques! Those dogs will mangle him with their cut and thrust "
W.J. White acquired his education from his mother, who was a white woman. Martha Martin, a daughter of her master, a Scotch-Irishman of Georgia, was permitted to go to Cincinnati to be educated, while her sister was sent to a southern town to learn the milliner's trade. Then there were cases like that of Josiah Settle's white father.
The sleep will refresh you, and I promise you there will not be any bad dreams after tonight. He shook his head hopelessly, so I sat a little longer and then left him. When I got home I made my arrangements for the night, for I had made up my mind to share Jacob Settle's lonely vigil in his cottage on the moor.
He laugh'd outright this time; and resting with his legs cross'd, against the trunk of an elm, twirl'd an end of his long lovelocks, and looked at me comically. Said he: "Tell me, Jack, is there aught in me that offends thee?" "Why, no," I answered. "I think you're a very proper young man such as I should loathe to see spoil'd by Master Settle's knife."
Now night descending, the proud scene is o'er, But lives in Settle's numbers one day more! when Collins makes Danger, "with limbs of giant mould". Throw him on the steep Of some loose hanging rock asleep: when Lear calls out in extreme anguish Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster!
The success of these wonderful poems raised a storm round D. Replies were forthcoming in Elkanah Settle's Absalom and Achitophel Transposed, and Pordage's Azaria and Hushai. These compositions, especially Pordage's, were comparatively moderate. Far otherwise was Shadwell's Medal of John Bayes, one of the most brutal and indecent pieces in the language.
Almost without warning, he sank down between our hands, and in a second was taken with that hateful cough, that once already this night had frightened me for his life. "Ah, ah!" he groaned, between the spasms, "I'm not fit I'm not fit for it!" and was taken again, and roll'd about barking, so that I fear'd the sound would bring all Settle's gang on our heels.
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