The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - 247 páginas |
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... never have burnt a hole in his hat , in his absorbed intensity of enjoyment , elsewhere than by his own fire - side . I have known some 6 GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE . men quite RETURN AND SETTLEMENT . 5.
... never have burnt a hole in his hat , in his absorbed intensity of enjoyment , elsewhere than by his own fire - side . I have known some 6 GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE . men quite RETURN AND SETTLEMENT . 5.
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... never noticed my entrance , but sat evidently en- tranced in grief ; for the tears were raining from her eyes , and pattered as they fell thickly on the paper before her . As I had no right to intermeddle with her sacred sorrow , I slid ...
... never noticed my entrance , but sat evidently en- tranced in grief ; for the tears were raining from her eyes , and pattered as they fell thickly on the paper before her . As I had no right to intermeddle with her sacred sorrow , I slid ...
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... never have him . This was on a Saturday . On the Monday following she was back at the Manse to tell the minister that the Sab- bath bell , as she came to the Kirk on the preceding day , had rung " Tak him , Jenny ! Tak him , Jenny ...
... never have him . This was on a Saturday . On the Monday following she was back at the Manse to tell the minister that the Sab- bath bell , as she came to the Kirk on the preceding day , had rung " Tak him , Jenny ! Tak him , Jenny ...
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... Never again did she see her own little Sandy ; and so she was fain to suckle the substituted Sandy , though she and all her neighbours looked upon him as a Fairy . The boy grew up , the only child of his now widowed mother ; and whether ...
... Never again did she see her own little Sandy ; and so she was fain to suckle the substituted Sandy , though she and all her neighbours looked upon him as a Fairy . The boy grew up , the only child of his now widowed mother ; and whether ...
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... never again alluded to the subject , but she groaned inwardly only the more deeply because she had thus tempted her son to for- swear and miss a good lot after her death . These preying thoughts soon brought her to her grave . Often did ...
... never again alluded to the subject , but she groaned inwardly only the more deeply because she had thus tempted her son to for- swear and miss a good lot after her death . These preying thoughts soon brought her to her grave . Often did ...
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Página 80 - And this is in the night. — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee...
Página 47 - Fraught with a transient, frozen shower, If a cloud should haply lower, Sailing o'er the landscape dark, Mute on a sudden is the lark ; But when gleams the sun again O'er the pearl-besprinkled plain. And from behind his watery veil Looks through the thin descending hail ; She mounts, and, lessening to the sight, Salutes the blithe return of light, And high her tuneful track pursues Mid the dim rainbow's scatter'd hues.
Página 171 - Nature seemed In silent contemplation to adore Its Maker. Now and then the aged leaf Fell from its fellows, rustling to the ground, And as it fell bade man think on his end.
Página 60 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
Página 214 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy GOD chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy GOD, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him. For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Página 39 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Página 57 - Amphytrion to the Stage, I heard him give it his first Reading to the Actors, in which, though it is true he deliver'd the plain Sense of every Period, yet the whole was in so cold, so flat, and unaffecting a manner, that I am afraid of not being believ'd when I affirm it.
Página 214 - And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war^/zV for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains...