The Fair Maid of Perth: Or, St. Valentine's Day. Chronicles of the Canongate. Second SeriesBoston Publishing Company, 1886 - 455 pages |
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Page 147 - I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood, And every bosky bourn from side to side...
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Page 89 - My eyes are dim with childish tears. My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
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Page 395 - He did so accordingly; and from that hour, whenever memory failed to suggest an appropriate epigraph, he had recourse to the inexhaustible mines of " old play" or old ballad," to which we owe some of the most exquisite verses that ever flowed from his pen.
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