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... appeared to the Author that there would be more of novelty , as well as of serious interest , if he could succeed in gaining for him something of that sympathy which is incompatible with the total absence of respect . Miss Baillie had ...
... appeared to the Author that there would be more of novelty , as well as of serious interest , if he could succeed in gaining for him something of that sympathy which is incompatible with the total absence of respect . Miss Baillie had ...
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... Canongate , with the chapter introductory which now follows , appeared in May 1828 , and had a favour- able reception . ABBOTSFORD , Aug. 15 , 1831 . INTRODUCTORY The ashes here of murder'd kings Beneath my footsteps PREFACE.
... Canongate , with the chapter introductory which now follows , appeared in May 1828 , and had a favour- able reception . ABBOTSFORD , Aug. 15 , 1831 . INTRODUCTORY The ashes here of murder'd kings Beneath my footsteps PREFACE.
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... appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had no idea they carried it so far as to ...
... appeared , who , like me , threatened to maintain the housekeeper's side of the question . He therefore took his leave , mut- tering that he had always heard the Scots were a nasty people , but had no idea they carried it so far as to ...
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... appearance was neither dignified nor handsome , his face and figure were not only deserving of attention , but seemed in some manner to command it . He was rather below the middle stature , but the breadth of his shoulders , length and ...
... appearance was neither dignified nor handsome , his face and figure were not only deserving of attention , but seemed in some manner to command it . He was rather below the middle stature , but the breadth of his shoulders , length and ...
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... appeared all well pleased with the unex- pected appearance of an old friend . Simon Glover shook his hand again and again , Dorothy made her compli- ments , and Catharine herself offered freely her hand , which Henry held in his massive ...
... appeared all well pleased with the unex- pected appearance of an old friend . Simon Glover shook his hand again and again , Dorothy made her compli- ments , and Catharine herself offered freely her hand , which Henry held in his massive ...
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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...