Works, Volume 20Houghton Mifflin, 1923 |
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... thou drub him , O man of peace ? ' inquired the glover . ' For nothing that I can remember , ' replied the smith , ' except his presenting himself on the south side of Stirling Bridge . ' ' Well , here is to thee , and thou art welcome ...
... thou drub him , O man of peace ? ' inquired the glover . ' For nothing that I can remember , ' replied the smith , ' except his presenting himself on the south side of Stirling Bridge . ' ' Well , here is to thee , and thou art welcome ...
Page 26
... thou canst not make me angry ; thou art but a boy , and I , a grown man , ought not to have provoked thee . But let this be a warning . ' Conachar stood an instant as if about to reply , and then left the room , ere Simon had collected ...
... thou canst not make me angry ; thou art but a boy , and I , a grown man , ought not to have provoked thee . But let this be a warning . ' Conachar stood an instant as if about to reply , and then left the room , ere Simon had collected ...
Page 30
... thou wouldst have my forgiveness , say something of comfort to my poor Henry . There he sits , confounded and dismayed with all the preachment thou hast heaped together ; and he , to whom a trumpet - sound was like the invitation to a ...
... thou wouldst have my forgiveness , say something of comfort to my poor Henry . There he sits , confounded and dismayed with all the preachment thou hast heaped together ; and he , to whom a trumpet - sound was like the invitation to a ...
Page 34
... thou for another ass to lead it by the halter ? Why , Catharine , girl , has sense altogether forsaken thee , or dost thou think that in these hard and iron days men will give ready silver for anything save that which can defend their ...
... thou for another ass to lead it by the halter ? Why , Catharine , girl , has sense altogether forsaken thee , or dost thou think that in these hard and iron days men will give ready silver for anything save that which can defend their ...
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... thou mightst mend it . Why wouldst thou come hither clattering with thy sword and dagger , when the girl is so silly that she cannot bear the sight of these ? Dost thou not remember that thou hadst a sort of quarrel with her even before ...
... thou mightst mend it . Why wouldst thou come hither clattering with thy sword and dagger , when the girl is so silly that she cannot bear the sight of these ? Dost thou not remember that thou hadst a sort of quarrel with her even before ...
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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...