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... door with no small difficulty , and for some time knock- ed without producing any other answer than a duet between a female and a cur - dog , the latter yelping as if he would have barked his heart out , the other screaming in chorus ...
... door with no small difficulty , and for some time knock- ed without producing any other answer than a duet between a female and a cur - dog , the latter yelping as if he would have barked his heart out , the other screaming in chorus ...
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... door to ony of your gang - there - out sort o ' bo- dies . » - « But what must I do then , good dame ? for I can't sleep here upon the road all night ? » > << Troth , I ken na , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the ...
... door to ony of your gang - there - out sort o ' bo- dies . » - « But what must I do then , good dame ? for I can't sleep here upon the road all night ? » > << Troth , I ken na , unless ye like to gae down and speer for quarters at the ...
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... door o ' the New Place . » -- Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a small modern house , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his cir- cumstances to ...
... door o ' the New Place . » -- Accordingly , leaving the ruins on the right , a few steps brought the traveller in front of a small modern house , at which his guide rapped with great importance . Mannering told his cir- cumstances to ...
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... doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk- maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies with the ...
... doors the Rev. Aaron Macbriar , his mother's chaplain , ( it is said they quarrelled about the good graces of a milk- maid , ) drank himself daily drunk with brimming healths to the king , council , and bishops ; held orgies with the ...
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... door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused , per- haps , than our readers , and to this Lewis Ber- tram retreated , full of projects for re ...
... door in the midst , full of all manner of cross lights . This was the New Place of Ellangowan , in which we left our hero , better amused , per- haps , than our readers , and to this Lewis Ber- tram retreated , full of projects for re ...
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Page 150 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
Page 31 - They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend...
Page 160 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 31 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring. Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 128 - God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too.
Page 32 - Come and see ! trust thine own eyes ! A fearful sign stands in the house of life...
Page 55 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 66 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Page 41 - Twist ye, twine ye! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life.
Page 82 - Yes ; there's thirty yonder, from the auld wife of an hundred to the babe that was born last week, that ye have turned out o' their bits o' bields, to sleep with the tod and the black-cock in the muirs ! Ride your ways, Ellangowan.