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... pass the night in the royal bedchamber ? ' ' For what purpose , my dear lady ? If to improve the rheumatism , this east wind may serve the purpose . ' ' Improve the rheumatism ! Heaven forbid ! that would be worse than adding colours to ...
... pass the night in the royal bedchamber ? ' ' For what purpose , my dear lady ? If to improve the rheumatism , this east wind may serve the purpose . ' ' Improve the rheumatism ! Heaven forbid ! that would be worse than adding colours to ...
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... find their way out of the mountainous region by the wildest leaps , and through the most roman- tic passes connecting the Highlands with the Lowlands . 1 See Note 4 . Above , the vegetation of a happier climate and soil 89 I.
... find their way out of the mountainous region by the wildest leaps , and through the most roman- tic passes connecting the Highlands with the Lowlands . 1 See Note 4 . Above , the vegetation of a happier climate and soil 89 I.
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... pass over the summit of a ridgy eminence which he had gradually surmounted , he beheld , stretching beneath him , the valley of the Tay , traversed by its ample and lordly stream ; the town of Perth , with its two large meadows , or ...
... pass over the summit of a ridgy eminence which he had gradually surmounted , he beheld , stretching beneath him , the valley of the Tay , traversed by its ample and lordly stream ; the town of Perth , with its two large meadows , or ...
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... passing , the glover's youthful attendant bristled up with a look of defiance , and the air of one who sought to distinguish his zeal in his mistress's service by its ardour . As fre- quently did Conachar , for such was the lad's name ...
... passing , the glover's youthful attendant bristled up with a look of defiance , and the air of one who sought to distinguish his zeal in his mistress's service by its ardour . As fre- quently did Conachar , for such was the lad's name ...
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... pass on ? Our pace is too slow for that of your lordship , our company too mean for that of your father's son . ' ' My father's son can best judge of that , old man . I have business to talk of with you and with my fair St. Catharine ...
... pass on ? Our pace is too slow for that of your lordship , our company too mean for that of your father's son . ' ' My father's son can best judge of that , old man . I have business to talk of with you and with my fair St. Catharine ...
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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...