The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - 247 páginas |
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... strange , he was quite harmless , living quietly with his mother , whom he sup- ported by his steady labour in a whin - stone quarry about a couple of miles from the Village : There he worked all alone , furnishing metal for the roads ...
... strange , he was quite harmless , living quietly with his mother , whom he sup- ported by his steady labour in a whin - stone quarry about a couple of miles from the Village : There he worked all alone , furnishing metal for the roads ...
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... strange caprices of insanity will not be surprised to learn that the hurt which she got on the melancholy occasion referred to , and the excitement which it gave to her nervous system , had a salutary effect upon her mind , and almost ...
... strange caprices of insanity will not be surprised to learn that the hurt which she got on the melancholy occasion referred to , and the excitement which it gave to her nervous system , had a salutary effect upon her mind , and almost ...
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... Strange ! " said an inveterate punster of the Presbytery , at their next meeting , " that a man should be killed by a mere lapsus linguæ ! ” CHAPTER VII . 66 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY . The older I grow , the faster , I find , does time ...
... Strange ! " said an inveterate punster of the Presbytery , at their next meeting , " that a man should be killed by a mere lapsus linguæ ! ” CHAPTER VII . 66 SPRING IN THE COUNTRY . The older I grow , the faster , I find , does time ...
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... strange enthusiast , the painter Blake , had the power , sometimes voluntary and sometimes involuntary , of calling up a face , and seeing it with his bodily eyes projected in palpable semblance on the air , or on the wall before him ...
... strange enthusiast , the painter Blake , had the power , sometimes voluntary and sometimes involuntary , of calling up a face , and seeing it with his bodily eyes projected in palpable semblance on the air , or on the wall before him ...
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... strange question . " Then do it now , " he rejoined , " for I have lost mine . " So saying , he bowed to me with a wild un- steady fervour , and wheeling round withdrew from me at a rapid pace . As he seemed to be labouring under some ...
... strange question . " Then do it now , " he rejoined , " for I have lost mine . " So saying , he bowed to me with a wild un- steady fervour , and wheeling round withdrew from me at a rapid pace . As he seemed to be labouring under some ...
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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...