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Page xxvii
... tell a lie at his master's command , yet it hurts his conscience to be found out . Now , this is the reason why I avoid in pru- dence all well - known paths of history , where every one can read the finger - posts carefully set up to ...
... tell a lie at his master's command , yet it hurts his conscience to be found out . Now , this is the reason why I avoid in pru- dence all well - known paths of history , where every one can read the finger - posts carefully set up to ...
Page 13
... tell me that my notice dishonours them . Well , my princess of white doe - skin and blue silk , I will teach you to rue this . ' As he murmured thus , the glover and his daughter entered the Dominican church , and their attendant ...
... tell me that my notice dishonours them . Well , my princess of white doe - skin and blue silk , I will teach you to rue this . ' As he murmured thus , the glover and his daughter entered the Dominican church , and their attendant ...
Page 18
... tell the thing I could refuse thee . ' The smith , for , as has been said , such was the craft of this sturdy artisan , was encouraged modestly to salute the Fair Maid , who yielded the courtesy with a smile of affection that might have ...
... tell the thing I could refuse thee . ' The smith , for , as has been said , such was the craft of this sturdy artisan , was encouraged modestly to salute the Fair Maid , who yielded the courtesy with a smile of affection that might have ...
Page 37
... tell you how , and also how long these bottles were concealed under ground , to save them from the reiving Southron . So I will empty a cup to the soul's health of my honoured father — May his sins be forgiven him ! Dorothy , thou shalt ...
... tell you how , and also how long these bottles were concealed under ground , to save them from the reiving Southron . So I will empty a cup to the soul's health of my honoured father — May his sins be forgiven him ! Dorothy , thou shalt ...
Page 38
... tell you of my return , thinking , if it were your will to permit me , that I would get your advice about being Mistress Catharine's Valentine for the year ; and then I heard from Mrs. Dorothy that you were gone to hear mass at the ...
... tell you of my return , thinking , if it were your will to permit me , that I would get your advice about being Mistress Catharine's Valentine for the year ; and then I heard from Mrs. Dorothy that you were gone to hear mass at the ...
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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...