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Page xvii
... once more made glad , and her long - silent echoes awakened , by the visit of our present gracious sovereign.1 My long habitation in the neighbourhood , and the quiet respectability of my habits , have given me a sort of intimacy with ...
... once more made glad , and her long - silent echoes awakened , by the visit of our present gracious sovereign.1 My long habitation in the neighbourhood , and the quiet respectability of my habits , have given me a sort of intimacy with ...
Page xix
... once more reëchoed with such shrieks as formerly were as often heard in the Scottish palaces as were sounds of revelry and music . Somewhat sur- prised at such an alarm in a place so solitary , I hastened to the spot , and found the ...
... once more reëchoed with such shrieks as formerly were as often heard in the Scottish palaces as were sounds of revelry and music . Somewhat sur- prised at such an alarm in a place so solitary , I hastened to the spot , and found the ...
Page 6
... once more interesting and more transient . To be called the Fair Maid of Perth would at any period have been a high distinction , and have inferred no mean superiority in beauty , where there were many to claim that much envied ...
... once more interesting and more transient . To be called the Fair Maid of Perth would at any period have been a high distinction , and have inferred no mean superiority in beauty , where there were many to claim that much envied ...
Page 10
... once , when from chance , or per- haps from an assumption of superior importance , such an individual took the wall of Simon in passing , the glover's youthful attendant bristled up with a look of defiance , and the air of one who ...
... once , when from chance , or per- haps from an assumption of superior importance , such an individual took the wall of Simon in passing , the glover's youthful attendant bristled up with a look of defiance , and the air of one who ...
Page 71
... once enough for once . Thou shalt not be fright- ened or hurried . Loving , true , and faithful Valentines are ye , and the rest as Heaven and opportunity shall permit . Come , prithee , have done : wring not thy tiny hands , nor fear ...
... once enough for once . Thou shalt not be fright- ened or hurried . Loving , true , and faithful Valentines are ye , and the rest as Heaven and opportunity shall permit . Come , prithee , have done : wring not thy tiny hands , nor fear ...
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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...