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... ance , my sowl begins to hum like a hive about to cast off a swarm - out rush a thousand springing thochts , for a while circling round and round like verra bees — and then , like them too , winging their free and rejoicing way into the ...
... ance , my sowl begins to hum like a hive about to cast off a swarm - out rush a thousand springing thochts , for a while circling round and round like verra bees — and then , like them too , winging their free and rejoicing way into the ...
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... ance . Aye keep some three or four pullets for eerocks , or for devouring through the winter ; and never set aboon fourteen eggs to ae hen , nor indeed mair than a dizzen , unless she be a weel - feathered mawsie , 1 and broad across ...
... ance . Aye keep some three or four pullets for eerocks , or for devouring through the winter ; and never set aboon fourteen eggs to ae hen , nor indeed mair than a dizzen , unless she be a weel - feathered mawsie , 1 and broad across ...
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... ance some half- a - score o ' mangy mongrels come yelping frae a close , or court , whare they had been howkin out food from the fulzie , and trying to bite the verra rims , and spokes , and axle - tree , and hoofs , half - hungry and ...
... ance some half- a - score o ' mangy mongrels come yelping frae a close , or court , whare they had been howkin out food from the fulzie , and trying to bite the verra rims , and spokes , and axle - tree , and hoofs , half - hungry and ...
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... ance the organ sounded , and I could have fallen down on my knees . North . Thank you kindly , James . Shepherd . I understand the hint , sir . Catch me harpin ower lang on ae string . Yet music's a subject I could get geyan ' tiresome ...
... ance the organ sounded , and I could have fallen down on my knees . North . Thank you kindly , James . Shepherd . I understand the hint , sir . Catch me harpin ower lang on ae string . Yet music's a subject I could get geyan ' tiresome ...
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... Ance I begin , I maun proceed ; and I devoor them — ilka ane being the last till my een are sae watery that I think it is raining . Break not in upon the integrity o ' time atween breakfast and the blessed hour o ' denner . North . The ...
... Ance I begin , I maun proceed ; and I devoor them — ilka ane being the last till my een are sae watery that I think it is raining . Break not in upon the integrity o ' time atween breakfast and the blessed hour o ' denner . North . The ...
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Página 354 - Memoir of Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. By Professor VEITCH of the University of Glasgow. 8vo, with Portrait, 18s.
Página 46 - Disuse in him forgetfulness had wrought, In Latin he composed his history ; A garrulous, but a lively tale, and fraught With matter of delight, and food for thought. And if he could in Merlin's glass have seen By whom his tomes to speak our tongue were taught, The old man would have felt as pleased, I ween, As when he won the ear of that great empress- queen.
Página 18 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moon-light scene in the Iliad.
Página 18 - Pope still retain their hold upon public estimation,— nay, there is not a passage of descriptive poetry which at this day finds so many and such ardent admirers. Strange to think of an enthusiast, as may have been the case with thousands, reciting those verses under the cope of a moon-light sky, without having his raptures in the least disturbed by a suspicion of their absurdity.
Página 195 - Rich as a rainbow with its hues of light, Pure as the moonshine of an autumn night : Weep not for Her ' Weep not for her ! — There is no cause for woe"; But rather nerve the spirit that it walk Unshrinking o'er the thorny paths below, And from earth's low defilements keep thee back : So, when a few fleet severing years have flown, She'll meet thee at heaven's gate — and lead thee on ! Weep not for Her.