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... postilion - No , they canna come at no rate , the Laird's sae ill . ' ' But God help them , ' said the landlady , ' the morn's the term - the very last day they can bide in the house - a ' thing's to be roupit . ' " Weel , but they can ...
... postilion - No , they canna come at no rate , the Laird's sae ill . ' ' But God help them , ' said the landlady , ' the morn's the term - the very last day they can bide in the house - a ' thing's to be roupit . ' " Weel , but they can ...
Page 116
... postilion , who , at a respectful distance , was listening to the conver- sation , ' begging Mr. Skreigh's and the company's pardon , there was no sae mony hairs on the war- lock's face as there's on Letter - Gae's * ain at this moment ...
... postilion , who , at a respectful distance , was listening to the conver- sation , ' begging Mr. Skreigh's and the company's pardon , there was no sae mony hairs on the war- lock's face as there's on Letter - Gae's * ain at this moment ...
Page 117
... postilion . ' He's but a dumb dog that , ' observed the Deacon ; ' I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang , for as lang as he has been licensed . ' ' Weel , but , ' said the precentor , waving his hand ...
... postilion . ' He's but a dumb dog that , ' observed the Deacon ; ' I have heard that he never could preach five words of a sermon endlang , for as lang as he has been licensed . ' ' Weel , but , ' said the precentor , waving his hand ...
Page 118
... postilion , it might be sae - I canna say against it , for I was not in the country at the time ; but John Wilson was a blustering kind of chield , without the heart of a sprug . ' ' And what was the end of all this ? ' said the ...
... postilion , it might be sae - I canna say against it , for I was not in the country at the time ; but John Wilson was a blustering kind of chield , without the heart of a sprug . ' ' And what was the end of all this ? ' said the ...
Page 119
... postilion . So , sir , she grippit him , and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch- head , where he was found that evening - but what became of the babe , frankly I cannot say . But he that was minister here ...
... postilion . So , sir , she grippit him , and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch- head , where he was found that evening - but what became of the babe , frankly I cannot say . But he that was minister here ...
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Page 40 - Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle shades of joy and woe, Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, In the thread of human life. While the mystic twist is spinning, And the infant's life beginning, Dimly seen through twilight bending, Lo, what varied shapes attending ! Passions wild, and Follies Tain, Pleasures soon exchanged for pain ; Doubt, and Jealousy, and Fear, In the magic dance appear. Now they wax, and now they dwindle, Whirling with the whirling spindle. Twist ye, twine ye ! even so Mingle...
Page 30 - mong fays, and talismans, And spirits, and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountains, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths — all these have vanish'd They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old...
Page 78 - I'll ever cut in the bonny woods of Ellangowan." So saying, she broke the sapling she held in her hand, and flung it into the road. Margaret of Anjou, bestowing on her triumphant foes her keen-edged malediction, could not have turned from them with a gesture more proudly contemptuous. The Laird was clearing his voice to speak, and thrusting his hand in his pocket to find...
Page 77 - The Laird made no answer, but continued to look at the figure which was thus perched above his path. 'Ride your ways,' said the gipsy, 'ride your ways, Laird of Ellangowan — ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! — This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths — see if the fire in your ain parlour burn the blither for that. Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses — look if your ain roof-tree stand the faster.
Page 202 - That weight of wood, with leathern coat o'erlaid, Those ample clasps of solid metal made, The...
Page 53 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 133 - They told me, by the sentence of the law They had commission to seize all thy fortune : Nay, more, Priuli's cruel hand had signed it. Here stood a ruffian, with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public sale : There was another making villainous jests At thy undoing : he had ta'en possession Of all thy ancient, most domestic ornaments; Rich hangings, intermixed and wrought with gold...
Page 63 - Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.
Page 219 - I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard ; I had them a' regularly entered, first wi...
Page 111 - O'er all within the lady-hostess rules, Her bar she governs, and her kitchen schools; To every guest th' appropriate speech is made, And every duty with distinction paid : Respectful, easy, pleasant, or polite — ' Your honour's servant — Mister Smith, good night.