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... begin to learn something of your native country . You must become familiar with the hills and the moorlands , with the roaring mountain - torrents , and the lonely islands amid the grey seas . For of what account is the accident of your ...
... begin to learn something of your native country . You must become familiar with the hills and the moorlands , with the roaring mountain - torrents , and the lonely islands amid the grey seas . For of what account is the accident of your ...
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... begin a new life ! I can work - I am old enough to work - I would slave my fingers to the bone for you ! Grandfather , why should you accept assistance from any one ? -- from Lord Musselburgh or any one ? No , I do not blame you— I have ...
... begin a new life ! I can work - I am old enough to work - I would slave my fingers to the bone for you ! Grandfather , why should you accept assistance from any one ? -- from Lord Musselburgh or any one ? No , I do not blame you— I have ...
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... begin himself . You know how he declares it to be monstrous that there should be people of your own race , and colour , and religion , whom you would hesitate to ask to sit down at the same table as yourself ; but I have not heard him ...
... begin himself . You know how he declares it to be monstrous that there should be people of your own race , and colour , and religion , whom you would hesitate to ask to sit down at the same table as yourself ; but I have not heard him ...
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... begin to sing verse after verse , and the people cheering ; and I owed it all to you , sir ; it was you , sir , as advised me to send it to him- 99 " A catching refrain - a catching refrain , " said the old gentleman , encouragingly ...
... begin to sing verse after verse , and the people cheering ; and I owed it all to you , sir ; it was you , sir , as advised me to send it to him- 99 " A catching refrain - a catching refrain , " said the old gentleman , encouragingly ...
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... begin copying the poems - for the volume , you know . You have sent for them to America , haven't you ? But really you have such a wonderful memory , grandfather , I believe you could repeat them all - and I could write them down - and ...
... begin copying the poems - for the volume , you know . You have sent for them to America , haven't you ? But really you have such a wonderful memory , grandfather , I believe you could repeat them all - and I could write them down - and ...
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Page 260 - Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice; Him serve with fear, his praise forth tell, Come ye before him and rejoice. 2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed, Without our aid he did us make ; We are his flock, he doth us feed, And for his sheep he doth us take. 3 O enter then his gates with praise, Approach with joy his courts unto; Praise, laud, and bless his name always, For it is seemly so to do. 4 For why? the Lord our God is good, His mercy is for ever sure; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall...
Page 248 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Page 174 - An' fill it in a silver tassie ; That I may drink before I go A service to my bonnie lassie : The boat rocks at the pier o...
Page 17 - Like snaw-wreaths in thaw, John, I'm wearin' awa' To the land o' the leal. There's nae sorrow there, John, There's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair In the land o' the leal. Our bonnie bairn's there, John, She was baith gude and fair, John, And oh ! we grudged her sair To the land o
Page 83 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 194 - He cam' and lookit again at her ; 0 gin her skin was white ! " I might hae spared that bonnie face To hae been some man's delight."
Page 193 - Tis not sic cauld that makes me cry, But my Love's heart grown cauld to me. When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I mysell in cramasie.
Page 184 - O yon is the mountain of hell,' he cried, 'Where you and I will go.' And aye when she turn'd her round about, Aye taller he seemed for to be; Until that the tops o' that gallant ship Nae taller were than he.
Page 167 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.