Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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... church . ' Your lordship will , I trust , permit us here to take leave of you ? ' said her father . ' I am well aware how little you will alter your pleasure for the pain and uneasiness you may give to such as us ; but , from the throng ...
... church . ' Your lordship will , I trust , permit us here to take leave of you ? ' said her father . ' I am well aware how little you will alter your pleasure for the pain and uneasiness you may give to such as us ; but , from the throng ...
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... church , cast a look towards the group , but had taken his place among the congregation before they separated themselves . He knelt down with the air of a man who has something burdensome on his mind ; but when the service was ended ...
... church , cast a look towards the group , but had taken his place among the congregation before they separated themselves . He knelt down with the air of a man who has something burdensome on his mind ; but when the service was ended ...
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... church , methought I saw two or three dangerous- looking men holding counsel together , and gazing at you and at her , and in especial Sir John Ramorny , whom I knew well enough , for all his disguise , and the velvet patch over his eye ...
... church , methought I saw two or three dangerous- looking men holding counsel together , and gazing at you and at her , and in especial Sir John Ramorny , whom I knew well enough , for all his disguise , and the velvet patch over his eye ...
Page 40
... church itself , when the priest was saying mass . There are others scarce less reasonable . I sometimes wish that Catharine were some degrees less fair , that she might not catch that dangerous sort of admiration , somewhat less holy ...
... church itself , when the priest was saying mass . There are others scarce less reasonable . I sometimes wish that Catharine were some degrees less fair , that she might not catch that dangerous sort of admiration , somewhat less holy ...
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... church , nevertheless , strictly ob- served . ' ' Oh , I comprehend ! -a buxom priest that thinks more of good living than of good life , tipples a can on Fastern's Eve , to enable him to face Lent , has a pleasant in principio , and ...
... church , nevertheless , strictly ob- served . ' ' Oh , I comprehend ! -a buxom priest that thinks more of good living than of good life , tipples a can on Fastern's Eve , to enable him to face Lent , has a pleasant in principio , and ...
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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...