Waverley Novels, Volume 41R. Cadell, 1832 |
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Page xxxi - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small. Who dares not put it to the touch, To win or lose it all.
Page liv - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Page 87 - LANG hae thought, my youthfu' friend, A something to have sent you, Tho' it should serve nae ither end Than just a kind memento ; But how the subject theme may gang, Let time and chance determine ; Perhaps, it may turn out a sang, Perhaps, turn out a sermon.
Page 266 - To pe peaten like a dog," said Robin ; " is there any reason in that? If you think I have done you wrong, I'll go before your shudge, though I neither know his law nor his language." A general cry of " No, no — no law, no lawyer ! a bellyful and be friends," was echoed by the bystanders. " But," continued Robin, " if I am to fight, I've no skill to fight like a jackanapes, with hands and nails.
Page 109 - In the course of our conversation this day, it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year before Dr Johnson was born ; upon which she graciously said to him, that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, ' My dear son, farewell ! My friend was much pleased with this day's entertainment, and owned that I had done well to force him out.
Page 131 - Had you but seen these roads before they were made, You would hold up your hands, and bless General Wade.
Page 47 - What's property ? dear Swift ! you see it alter From you to me, from me to Peter Walter; Or, in a mortgage, prove a lawyer's share; Or, in a jointure, vanish from the heir...
Page 265 - I may teach you, Master Fleecebumpkin, that I have not lost the use of mine," said Wakefield, and then went on. "This will never do, Robin. We must have a turn-up, or we shall be the talk of the country-side. I'll be d — d if I hurt thee — I'll put on the gloves gin thou like. Come, stand forward like a man."
Page 244 - At night the drovers usually sleep along with their cattle, let the weather be what it will; and many of these hardy men do not once rest under a roof during a journey on foot from Lochaber to Lincolnshire. They are paid very highly, for the trust reposed is of the last importance, as it depends on their prudence, vigilance, and honesty whether the cattle reach the final market in good order, and afford a profit to the grazier. But as they maintain themselves at their own expense, they are especially...
Page 109 - A young lady of quality, who was present, very handsomely said, " Might not the son have justified the fault." — My friend was much flattered by this compliment, which he never forgot. When in more than ordinary spirits, and talking of his journey in i Virum volitare per ora.