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Page xxi
... true a tale , cousin , ' said Mrs. Baliol . ' I am sure we all have occasion to regret the want of these ready supplements to a failing invention . But you , most of all , have right to complain that the fairies have not favoured your ...
... true a tale , cousin , ' said Mrs. Baliol . ' I am sure we all have occasion to regret the want of these ready supplements to a failing invention . But you , most of all , have right to complain that the fairies have not favoured your ...
Page xxiii
... true to the historical fact , that I think it may well bear out the additional circumstance of the blood on the floor . ' ' I profess to you , ' answered Mrs. Baliol , ' that I am very willing to be converted to your faith . We talk of ...
... true to the historical fact , that I think it may well bear out the additional circumstance of the blood on the floor . ' ' I profess to you , ' answered Mrs. Baliol , ' that I am very willing to be converted to your faith . We talk of ...
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... true a heart and so strong an arm has termed himself thy bachelor ? In what do the proudest dames take their loftiest pride , save in the chivalry of their knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave ...
... true a heart and so strong an arm has termed himself thy bachelor ? In what do the proudest dames take their loftiest pride , save in the chivalry of their knight ; and has the boldest in Scotland done more gallant deeds than my brave ...
Page 42
... true , ' said Simon : ' he cuts all his gloves out for the right hand , and never could finish a pair in his life . ' ' No doubt , his notions of skin - cutting are rather dif- ferent , ' said Henry . ' But with your leave , father , I ...
... true , ' said Simon : ' he cuts all his gloves out for the right hand , and never could finish a pair in his life . ' ' No doubt , his notions of skin - cutting are rather dif- ferent , ' said Henry . ' But with your leave , father , I ...
Page 54
... true prisoner . ' ' What is the matter , my son Harry ? ' said Simon , who now appeared at the window . ' I hear thy voice in an- other tone than I expected . What is all this noise ; and why are the neighbours gathering to the affray ...
... true prisoner . ' ' What is the matter , my son Harry ? ' said Simon , who now appeared at the window . ' I hear thy voice in an- other tone than I expected . What is all this noise ; and why are the neighbours gathering to the affray ...
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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...