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Page 58
... King's Grace's presence , raise him from his royal rest , and presenting to him the piteous case of our being called forth from our beds at this season , with little better covering than these shirts , I would show him this bloody token ...
... King's Grace's presence , raise him from his royal rest , and presenting to him the piteous case of our being called forth from our beds at this season , with little better covering than these shirts , I would show him this bloody token ...
Page 114
... King's Grace excepted , is neither granted to lord nor loon save to our provost alone . ' As the bonnet - maker spoke , there was heard on the left hand the cry of , ' So so waw waw haw , ' being the shout of a falconer to his hawk ...
... King's Grace excepted , is neither granted to lord nor loon save to our provost alone . ' As the bonnet - maker spoke , there was heard on the left hand the cry of , ' So so waw waw haw , ' being the shout of a falconer to his hawk ...
Page 138
... King would change from an indulgent to a strict and even cruel father , from a confiding to a jealous brother , or from a benignant and bountiful to a grasping and encroaching sovereign . Like the cameleon , his feeble mind reflected ...
... King would change from an indulgent to a strict and even cruel father , from a confiding to a jealous brother , or from a benignant and bountiful to a grasping and encroaching sovereign . Like the cameleon , his feeble mind reflected ...
Page 140
... King of Scotland , but only to my humble and devout penitent , Robert Stuart of Carrick . ' ' You surprise me , father , ' answered the King : ' I have little check on my conscience for aught that I have done in my kingly office ...
... King of Scotland , but only to my humble and devout penitent , Robert Stuart of Carrick . ' ' You surprise me , father , ' answered the King : ' I have little check on my conscience for aught that I have done in my kingly office ...
Page 141
... king and the penalty which he has incurred by following of their secular policy in matters ecclesiastical ? Know , mighty king , that , were all the chivalry of thy realm drawn up to shield thee from the red levin - bolt , they would be ...
... king and the penalty which he has incurred by following of their secular policy in matters ecclesiastical ? Know , mighty king , that , were all the chivalry of thy realm drawn up to shield thee from the red levin - bolt , they would be ...
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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...
Page 111 - Have a care he does not hear you say so,' said the smith. 'I tell thee, bonnet-maker, that there is more danger in yonder slight wasted anatomy than in twenty stout fellows like yourself.
Page 304 - 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 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.
Page 460 - 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...