The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. [Essays and Sketches.]Myles Macphail, 1845 - Всего страниц: 247 |
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... began thus with the New Year . CHAPTER II . GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE . THE Scotch are a peculiar people . Strong are the lights of their national character , and deep the shadows . From the earliest times they seem to ...
... began thus with the New Year . CHAPTER II . GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE SCOTTISH PEOPLE . THE Scotch are a peculiar people . Strong are the lights of their national character , and deep the shadows . From the earliest times they seem to ...
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... began to prosper . Her simple worth made her respected , and her curious primi- tiveness was quite attractive . Two spruce young chaps , passing one hot day through the Village , stepped into the Crown to have a glass of beer . There ...
... began to prosper . Her simple worth made her respected , and her curious primi- tiveness was quite attractive . Two spruce young chaps , passing one hot day through the Village , stepped into the Crown to have a glass of beer . There ...
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... began . I need scarcely say that , like so many of his class , he was fidgety , testy , and troublesome ; but a lover of fair play withal , warm- hearted , and benevolent . At bottom , too , he was a tho- roughly religious man . He and ...
... began . I need scarcely say that , like so many of his class , he was fidgety , testy , and troublesome ; but a lover of fair play withal , warm- hearted , and benevolent . At bottom , too , he was a tho- roughly religious man . He and ...
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... began . When all the people were in , young Sword hastened to the new - made grave , and flinging himself down upon it , he kissed the wet sod at the head of it again and again , in a passion of repentance and sorrow , groaning out " My ...
... began . When all the people were in , young Sword hastened to the new - made grave , and flinging himself down upon it , he kissed the wet sod at the head of it again and again , in a passion of repentance and sorrow , groaning out " My ...
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... began to toll the Kirk bell . They were two villagers whose duty it was for the night to watch the grave of Andrew Sword's wife , the vile practice of lift- ing dead bodies for the surgeons being then common . No sooner was the bell ...
... began to toll the Kirk bell . They were two villagers whose duty it was for the night to watch the grave of Andrew Sword's wife , the vile practice of lift- ing dead bodies for the surgeons being then common . No sooner was the bell ...
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Стр. 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...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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...
Стр. 39 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...