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... less what was the meaning of it . " Who's that ? " said Mrs. Douglas , conscious of the flying shadow . " It's Kirsteen , and my father will have told her , and she's just beside herself . " " Beside herself ! " said the mother ...
... less what was the meaning of it . " Who's that ? " said Mrs. Douglas , conscious of the flying shadow . " It's Kirsteen , and my father will have told her , and she's just beside herself . " " Beside herself ! " said the mother ...
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... less hospitable way of living for which he is not so blamable , kept him in diffi- culties all the rest of his life and made him die in them . He lived twenty years longer ; married a good - looking girl much his superior in rank and ...
... less hospitable way of living for which he is not so blamable , kept him in diffi- culties all the rest of his life and made him die in them . He lived twenty years longer ; married a good - looking girl much his superior in rank and ...
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... less characteristic . Imme- diately afterwards Hogg tells his own speech about being " not sae yelegant but mair original " than Addison . Then there is the other capital legend , also self - told , how he said to Scott , “ Dear Sir ...
... less characteristic . Imme- diately afterwards Hogg tells his own speech about being " not sae yelegant but mair original " than Addison . Then there is the other capital legend , also self - told , how he said to Scott , “ Dear Sir ...
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... less graceful than the marble . Underneath there is a little fountain " . In a place like Pompeii , where the houses and gardens were small , these decorations had special advantages as they were intended to represent an extension of ...
... less graceful than the marble . Underneath there is a little fountain " . In a place like Pompeii , where the houses and gardens were small , these decorations had special advantages as they were intended to represent an extension of ...
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... less preserved in the monasteries all through the Middle Ages , and before Le Nôtre's time there had been a growing taste in Italy , in England , and notably in Holland , for reviving the tree - sculpture of Pliny . Horace Walpole ...
... less preserved in the monasteries all through the Middle Ages , and before Le Nôtre's time there had been a growing taste in Italy , in England , and notably in Holland , for reviving the tree - sculpture of Pliny . Horace Walpole ...
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Page 449 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 108 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Page 182 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best...
Page 89 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 126 - Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun, And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one. And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear — There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer. "Ha
Page 126 - If there should follow a thousand swords to carry my bones away, Belike the price of a jackal's meal were more than a thief could pay. They will feed their horse on the standing crop, their men on the garnered grain, The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain. But if thou thinkest the price be fair, — thy brethren wait to sup.
Page 126 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat ; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho...
Page 203 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
Page 126 - who leads a troop of the Guides, 'And thou must ride at his left side as shield on shoulder rides. 'Till Death or I cut loose the tie, at camp and board and bed, 'Thy life is his — thy fate it is to guard him with thy head. 'So, thou must eat the White Queen's meat, and all her foes are thine, 'And thou must harry thy father's hold for the peace of the Border-line. 'And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power — 'Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!
Page 183 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...