Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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Page xii
... thing by tha was done . At Sanct Johnstoun besyde the Freris , All thai enterit in barreris Wyth bow and ax , knyf and swerd , To deil amang thaim thair last werd.3 Thare thai laid on that time sa fast , Quha had the ware1 thare at the ...
... thing by tha was done . At Sanct Johnstoun besyde the Freris , All thai enterit in barreris Wyth bow and ax , knyf and swerd , To deil amang thaim thair last werd.3 Thare thai laid on that time sa fast , Quha had the ware1 thare at the ...
Page xvii
... thing : this was the brisk , alert agent of a great house in the city , who missed no opportunity of doing business , as he termed it- that is , of putting off , the goods of his employers , and improving his own account of commission ...
... thing : this was the brisk , alert agent of a great house in the city , who missed no opportunity of doing business , as he termed it- that is , of putting off , the goods of his employers , and improving his own account of commission ...
Page xix
... things in the world as stains which ought to remain indelible , on account of the associations with which they are connected . Our good friend viewed everything of the kind only as the means of displaying the virtue of his vaunted ...
... things in the world as stains which ought to remain indelible , on account of the associations with which they are connected . Our good friend viewed everything of the kind only as the means of displaying the virtue of his vaunted ...
Page xx
... things that are long enough ago ; and sometimes wishing I could , with the good - luck of most editors of romantic narrative , light upon some hidden crypt or massive antique cabinet , which should yield to my researches an almost ...
... things that are long enough ago ; and sometimes wishing I could , with the good - luck of most editors of romantic narrative , light upon some hidden crypt or massive antique cabinet , which should yield to my researches an almost ...
Page xxi
... and the cor- respondence of the existing state of things with that tradition . ' ' Explain , if you please . ' ' I will . The universal tradition bears that , when Rizzio was dragged out of the chamber of the Queen xxi INTRODUCTORY.
... and the cor- respondence of the existing state of things with that tradition . ' ' Explain , if you please . ' ' I will . The universal tradition bears that , when Rizzio was dragged out of the chamber of the Queen xxi INTRODUCTORY.
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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.
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