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... John Bunyan , " and behold it is a dream . " Well , enough that I awake without a sciatica , which would have probably rewarded my slumbers had I profaned Queen Mary's bed by using it as a mechanical resource to awaken a torpid ...
... John Bunyan , " and behold it is a dream . " Well , enough that I awake without a sciatica , which would have probably rewarded my slumbers had I profaned Queen Mary's bed by using it as a mechanical resource to awaken a torpid ...
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... sceptre was swayed by the gentle but feeble hand of John , who , on being called to the throne , assumed the title of Robert the Third . 1 See Note 6 . CHAPTER II A country lip may have the velvet touch THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
... sceptre was swayed by the gentle but feeble hand of John , who , on being called to the throne , assumed the title of Robert the Third . 1 See Note 6 . CHAPTER II A country lip may have the velvet touch THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
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... John Ramorny , whom I knew well enough , for all his disguise , and the velvet patch over his eye , and his cloak so like a serving - man's ; so methought , father Simon , that , as you were old , and yonder slip of a Highlander ...
... John Ramorny , whom I knew well enough , for all his disguise , and the velvet patch over his eye , and his cloak so like a serving - man's ; so methought , father Simon , that , as you were old , and yonder slip of a Highlander ...
Page 71
... limited to the character with which the rites of the day had in- vested him . Her father looked on his fallen countenance with something like surprise and displeasure . ' In the name of good St. John , what 71 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
... limited to the character with which the rites of the day had in- vested him . Her father looked on his fallen countenance with something like surprise and displeasure . ' In the name of good St. John , what 71 THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH.
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... John she had sent old Dorothy on the errand , and bound thee for thy Valentine service to that bundle of dry bones , with never a tooth in her head . She were fittest Valentine in Perth for so craven a wooer . ' ' As to craven , father ...
... John she had sent old Dorothy on the errand , and bound thee for thy Valentine service to that bundle of dry bones , with never a tooth in her head . She were fittest Valentine in Perth for so craven a wooer . ' ' As to craven , father ...
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Page 203 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
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Page 49 - Each robber chief upheld his armed halls, Doing his evil will, nor less elate Than mightier heroes of a longer date. What want these outlaws conquerors should have? But History's purchased page to call them great? A wider space, an ornamented grave? Their hopes were not less warm, their souls were full as brave.
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