The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - 247 páginas |
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... Heaven . I will just add , in the way of general praise , that to see the old men , on a bright evening of the still Sabbath , in their light - blue coats and broad - striped waist- coats , sitting in their southern gardens on the low ...
... Heaven . I will just add , in the way of general praise , that to see the old men , on a bright evening of the still Sabbath , in their light - blue coats and broad - striped waist- coats , sitting in their southern gardens on the low ...
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... Heaven - facing wrestler , till he came out of his great tribulation a disciplined , enlarged , and better man ! I need scarcely add that the end of our poor plasterer was a very miserable one . I have already alluded to our worthy ...
... Heaven - facing wrestler , till he came out of his great tribulation a disciplined , enlarged , and better man ! I need scarcely add that the end of our poor plasterer was a very miserable one . I have already alluded to our worthy ...
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... Heaven of Heavens be on your beautiful head ! " he exclaimed ; and resigning Miss Ruthven's hand , he laid himself gently back upon the pillow , and breathed his last . The virgin closed his eyes . CHAPTER V. FATHER AND SON . ONE ...
... Heaven of Heavens be on your beautiful head ! " he exclaimed ; and resigning Miss Ruthven's hand , he laid himself gently back upon the pillow , and breathed his last . The virgin closed his eyes . CHAPTER V. FATHER AND SON . ONE ...
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... heaven , that tirl the kirks , and whelm the stranded navies , while the cross blue lightning plays fugle- man to the elements , and the jammed thunders thicken the uproar , and Boreas , whistling through the tumult , slings about his ...
... heaven , that tirl the kirks , and whelm the stranded navies , while the cross blue lightning plays fugle- man to the elements , and the jammed thunders thicken the uproar , and Boreas , whistling through the tumult , slings about his ...
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... heavens like a curler's besom , and bracing more than he blights ! The fellow may take us redly by the nose ; but the vigour of blood is there , for our hearts are yet warm . Would he but blow with all the round of his Norland cheeks ...
... heavens like a curler's besom , and bracing more than he blights ! The fellow may take us redly by the nose ; but the vigour of blood is there , for our hearts are yet warm . Would he but blow with all the round of his Norland cheeks ...
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The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.] Thomas Aird Vista completa - 1845 |
The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.] Thomas Aird Vista completa - 1845 |
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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...