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... mother . ' ' Brave , beau cousin ! Well , having raised your bevy of phantoms , I hope you do not intend to send them back to their cold beds to warm them ? You will put them to some action , and since you do threaten the Canongate with ...
... mother . ' ' Brave , beau cousin ! Well , having raised your bevy of phantoms , I hope you do not intend to send them back to their cold beds to warm them ? You will put them to some action , and since you do threaten the Canongate with ...
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... mother , and thou thinkest foolishly to suppose they are all set on what pleases the eye . Their ear must be pleased too , man : they must know that he whom they favour is bold and buxom , and might have the love of twenty , though he ...
... mother , and thou thinkest foolishly to suppose they are all set on what pleases the eye . Their ear must be pleased too , man : they must know that he whom they favour is bold and buxom , and might have the love of twenty , though he ...
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... Mother Church her dues , give our alms , confess and do our penances duly , and the saints will bear us out . ' ' Ay , truly ; and they will have consideration , ' said the smith , ' for any rash and unhappy blow that a man may deal in ...
... Mother Church her dues , give our alms , confess and do our penances duly , and the saints will bear us out . ' ' Ay , truly ; and they will have consideration , ' said the smith , ' for any rash and unhappy blow that a man may deal in ...
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... mother was dear to me on earth , and is now an angel in Heaven . Catharine is all I have to remind me of her I have lost ; and if she goes to the cloister , it shall be when these old eyes are closed for ever , and not sooner . But as ...
... mother was dear to me on earth , and is now an angel in Heaven . Catharine is all I have to remind me of her I have lost ; and if she goes to the cloister , it shall be when these old eyes are closed for ever , and not sooner . But as ...
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... mother , ' he added , with a sigh ; ' how blythe would she have been to see this happy St. Valentine's morning ! ' Catharine took the opportunity of escape which was thus given her , and glided from the room . To Henry it seemed as if ...
... mother , ' he added , with a sigh ; ' how blythe would she have been to see this happy St. Valentine's morning ! ' Catharine took the opportunity of escape which was thus given her , and glided from the room . To Henry it seemed as if ...
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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...