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... returned , the father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast table , with looks so grave and ominous , as to alarm the fears of the ...
... returned , the father and his guest were made acquainted with the birth of a boy . The The Astrologer on the morrow met the party who gathered around the breakfast table , with looks so grave and ominous , as to alarm the fears of the ...
Page xvii
... returned for answer , that this fitful state of mind was but the commencement of his trial , and that the poor youth must undergo more and more desperate struggles with the evil that assailed him . There was no hope of remedy , save ...
... returned for answer , that this fitful state of mind was but the commencement of his trial , and that the poor youth must undergo more and more desperate struggles with the evil that assailed him . There was no hope of remedy , save ...
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... returning through the mountains of Cheviot , he was benighted and lost his way . ' A light , glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm- house to which it had once belonged , guided him xxviii GUY ...
... returning through the mountains of Cheviot , he was benighted and lost his way . ' A light , glimmering through the window of a large waste barn , which had survived the farm- house to which it had once belonged , guided him xxviii GUY ...
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... returned , with various articles of plunder , and talked over their exploits in language which made the farmer tremble . They were not long in discovering they had a guest , and demanded of Jean whom she had got there . " " E'en the ...
... returned , with various articles of plunder , and talked over their exploits in language which made the farmer tremble . They were not long in discovering they had a guest , and demanded of Jean whom she had got there . " " E'en the ...
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... returned . Jean was present , and only said , “ The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circumstances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had ...
... returned . Jean was present , and only said , “ The Lord help the innocent in a day like this ! " Her own death was accompanied with circumstances of brutal outrage , of which poor Jean was in many respects wholly undeserving . She had ...
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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.