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... young and beautiful Queen , that queen also being within a few weeks of becoming a mother . ' ' Brave , beau cousin ! Well , having raised your bevy of phantoms , I hope you do not intend to send them back to their cold beds to warm ...
... young and beautiful Queen , that queen also being within a few weeks of becoming a mother . ' ' Brave , beau cousin ! Well , having raised your bevy of phantoms , I hope you do not intend to send them back to their cold beds to warm ...
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... young woman of the city or its vicinity , and whose renown , as the Fair Maid of Perth , had drawn on her much notice from the young gallants of the royal court , when it chanced to be residing in or near Perth ; insomuch that more than ...
... young woman of the city or its vicinity , and whose renown , as the Fair Maid of Perth , had drawn on her much notice from the young gallants of the royal court , when it chanced to be residing in or near Perth ; insomuch that more than ...
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... young and old . As the pair moved on arm in arm , they were followed by a tall handsome young man , dressed in a yeoman's habit of the plainest kind , but which showed to advan- tage his fine limbs , as the handsome countenance that ...
... young and old . As the pair moved on arm in arm , they were followed by a tall handsome young man , dressed in a yeoman's habit of the plainest kind , but which showed to advan- tage his fine limbs , as the handsome countenance that ...
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... young man wrapped in a cloak , which obscured or muffled a part of his face a practice often used by the gallants of the time , when they did not wish to be known , or were abroad in quest of adventures . He seemed , in short , one who ...
... young man wrapped in a cloak , which obscured or muffled a part of his face a practice often used by the gallants of the time , when they did not wish to be known , or were abroad in quest of adventures . He seemed , in short , one who ...
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... young nobleman . The gallant , starting from his unpleasing reverie , and per- haps considering this as an intentional insult , seized on the young man by the breast , struck him , and threw him from him . His irritated opponent ...
... young nobleman . The gallant , starting from his unpleasing reverie , and per- haps considering this as an intentional insult , seized on the young man by the breast , struck him , and threw him from him . His irritated opponent ...
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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...