The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - 247 páginas |
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... speak more properly , in the neighbourhood of whose feudal castle the Village had originally been built . Those who had enough to support themselves and their families on their " quarter , " " husband , " or " cot " lands , generally ...
... speak more properly , in the neighbourhood of whose feudal castle the Village had originally been built . Those who had enough to support themselves and their families on their " quarter , " " husband , " or " cot " lands , generally ...
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... speak of the goodly muster of trampers , randies , tinkers , jugglers , tinselled tumblers , and every picturesque curiosity of the human kind , we had our barn - dance in day - light , with its brisk hoo ! hoo ! and many a ringing ...
... speak of the goodly muster of trampers , randies , tinkers , jugglers , tinselled tumblers , and every picturesque curiosity of the human kind , we had our barn - dance in day - light , with its brisk hoo ! hoo ! and many a ringing ...
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... speaking , he thought himself entitled to despise the main body of his fellow - villagers . Latterly , to help him- self against some gastric pains , and a certain nervous depression of spirits and , I verily believe also , to assist ...
... speaking , he thought himself entitled to despise the main body of his fellow - villagers . Latterly , to help him- self against some gastric pains , and a certain nervous depression of spirits and , I verily believe also , to assist ...
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... speaking of . I mean daft Jock Gray . Well known was Jock throughout the Border counties of Roxburgh , Selkirk , and Peebles , for his " wood - notes wild " as a singer ; but chiefly for his uncommon powers of mimicking the pulpit ...
... speaking of . I mean daft Jock Gray . Well known was Jock throughout the Border counties of Roxburgh , Selkirk , and Peebles , for his " wood - notes wild " as a singer ; but chiefly for his uncommon powers of mimicking the pulpit ...
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... such a wall presents . But there are more wonderful examples still of the faculty of which I have been speaking . Without the help of any suggestion whatever from any external object on which he might 36 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY .
... such a wall presents . But there are more wonderful examples still of the faculty of which I have been speaking . Without the help of any suggestion whatever from any external object on which he might 36 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY .
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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...