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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. THE STORM-LONDON, 1703. ' I have seen tempests, when the scolding windg Have riv'd the knotty oaks; and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, To be exalted with the threatening clouds: But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. Either there is a civil strife in Heaven; Or else the world, too saney with the gods, Incenses them to send destruction." JCLIUS C/F.SAR, I. III. " So when an angel, by Divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land (Such as of late o'er pale Britannia passed)." The Campaign. A Deep silence reigns over London, and although it wants but an hour of midnight, the quietness feels too intense even for so late an hour. The moon hangs in the centre of the ragged clouds, lurid and red, totally unlike its usual radiant light and mellow color; thin leaden clouds scud swiftly before it, and, for a time, dim its glow, making it dull and copperish until they pass. The heavens in every part present an unusual appearance; an opaque, light-colored mist floats between the sky and the earth, and dims the brilliancy of the few stars that cluster around the sun of night. It is, however, beginning to break; wide crevices already yawning and cracks opening, the huge clouds show their threatening ranks, piled mountain high, and filled with the thunderbolts of Jove's great armorer, Vulcan. People afterwards said that this mist formed itself into the semblance of an immense angel, whose wings covered the half of the city, and whose face was lowering and angry. Be that as it may, they had scant time to notice it before the lightning began; its quick, sharp, blinding flashes push out in bold relief the torn clouds and vaporous banks whence it comes; the low rumbling thunder moa Books History~~General Himself-His-Worst-Enemy~~Alfred-P-Brotherhead General Books LLC This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: J.B. Lippincott in 1871 in 387 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary;<

ISBN: 0217484778

Himself His Worst Enemy Or, Philip, Duke of Wharton's Career Author :Alfred Paxton Brotherhead 9780217484770 0217484778

ISBN: 0217484778

Himself His Worst Enemy Or Philip Duke of Wharton's Career Author :Alfred Paxton Brotherhead 9780217484770 0217484778