The Table-talk of Shirley [pseud.]: Reminiscences of and Letters from Froude, Thackeray, Disraeli, Browning, Rossetti, Kingsley, Baynes, Huxley, Tyndall and OthersW. Blackwood, 1895 - 344 páginas |
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... Sergeant , alas ! who has been gathered to his fathers ) , but where are the kilted Gaels who were to sit at the Master's feet , listening intently to the " hollow oes and aes " of Celtic chronicle and bard ? and even the mighty shades ...
... Sergeant , alas ! who has been gathered to his fathers ) , but where are the kilted Gaels who were to sit at the Master's feet , listening intently to the " hollow oes and aes " of Celtic chronicle and bard ? and even the mighty shades ...
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... Sergeant Duncan MacTavish o ' the Fit Guards , wha is the stootest man in the coonty ; and there was mysel ' , Andrew Lyell , head maister in the grammar- school o ' the burgh , and Inspector o ' Nuisance under the Act o ' Victoria ...
... Sergeant Duncan MacTavish o ' the Fit Guards , wha is the stootest man in the coonty ; and there was mysel ' , Andrew Lyell , head maister in the grammar- school o ' the burgh , and Inspector o ' Nuisance under the Act o ' Victoria ...
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... Sergeant , in a jocose aside , as we slippet awa . We were onquestionably somewhat deelatory at breakfast the neist mornin ' — at least I was - for the Sergeant declared that he had been roun ' Arthur Seat and the Blackfurd Hill afore I ...
... Sergeant , in a jocose aside , as we slippet awa . We were onquestionably somewhat deelatory at breakfast the neist mornin ' — at least I was - for the Sergeant declared that he had been roun ' Arthur Seat and the Blackfurd Hill afore I ...
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... Sergeant , " says I , " tho ' I'm thinkin ' we micht as weel be chasin ' Spunkie " -which is the vulgar , Mr Drumly , for the ignis fatuus o ' antiquity- " my opeenion is that we should veesit the Parliament Hoose . Angus MacCraw o ...
... Sergeant , " says I , " tho ' I'm thinkin ' we micht as weel be chasin ' Spunkie " -which is the vulgar , Mr Drumly , for the ignis fatuus o ' antiquity- " my opeenion is that we should veesit the Parliament Hoose . Angus MacCraw o ...
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... Sergeant interposed decidedly . " That is my ain opeenion , Sergeant MacTavish , and it should be a great pint in your favour wi ' the Electors . Noo , as to what you should be doin ' . You maun see the leeterary Professors , Dawvid ...
... Sergeant interposed decidedly . " That is my ain opeenion , Sergeant MacTavish , and it should be a great pint in your favour wi ' the Electors . Noo , as to what you should be doin ' . You maun see the leeterary Professors , Dawvid ...
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