Tales of my landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Volumen4 |
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... ye tent it , A chiel's amang you takin ' notes , An ' faith he'll prent it . BURNS . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . IV ... II 1817 . TALES OF MY LANDLORD , IN FOUR VOLUMES. ...
... ye tent it , A chiel's amang you takin ' notes , An ' faith he'll prent it . BURNS . IN FOUR VOLUMES . VOL . IV ... II 1817 . TALES OF MY LANDLORD , IN FOUR VOLUMES. ...
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... ye out o ' the hands o ' the whigs ; sae being atween the de'il and the deep sea , I e'en thought it best to bring him on wi ' me , for he'll be wearied wi ' felling folk the night , an ' the morn's a new day , and Lord Evandale awes ye ...
... ye out o ' the hands o ' the whigs ; sae being atween the de'il and the deep sea , I e'en thought it best to bring him on wi ' me , for he'll be wearied wi ' felling folk the night , an ' the morn's a new day , and Lord Evandale awes ye ...
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sir Walter Scott (bart.) and Monmouth gi'es quarter , the dragoons tell me , for the asking . Sae haud up ye're heart , an ' we'll do a ' weel aneugh yet . " CHAPTER V. Sound , sound the clarion , fill the 88 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
sir Walter Scott (bart.) and Monmouth gi'es quarter , the dragoons tell me , for the asking . Sae haud up ye're heart , an ' we'll do a ' weel aneugh yet . " CHAPTER V. Sound , sound the clarion , fill the 88 TALES OF MY LANDLORD .
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... ye I'll testify naething either ae gate or an other . I hae spoken to Mr Poundtext , and I'll take the declaration , or whate'er they ca ' it , and we're a to win free off if we do that he's gotten life for himsel and a his folk , and ...
... ye I'll testify naething either ae gate or an other . I hae spoken to Mr Poundtext , and I'll take the declaration , or whate'er they ca ' it , and we're a to win free off if we do that he's gotten life for himsel and a his folk , and ...
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... ye'll find them scalding hot , I promise you . - Call in the other fellow , who has some common sense . One sheep will leap the ditch when another goes first . " Cuddie was introduced unbound , but under the guard of two halberdiers ...
... ye'll find them scalding hot , I promise you . - Call in the other fellow , who has some common sense . One sheep will leap the ditch when another goes first . " Cuddie was introduced unbound , but under the guard of two halberdiers ...
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Ailie answered Morton appeared arms auld Basil Olifant blood Bothwell Bridge Burley Cameronians canna Claverhouse command council countenance Dalzell death dragoons Duke Duke of Monmouth e'en Edith enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes face Fairy-knowe favour fear frae gi'e Grahame gude Gudyill Halliday hand hast hath head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny honour horse insurgents Irongray Jacobites Jenny kenn'd Lady Emily Lady Margaret Leddy look Lord Evan Lord Evandale Macbriar Maclure mair marriage maun ment Milnwood Miss Bellenden moderate party Monmouth mony morning neral never ower party person Poundtext Prince of Orange prisoner puir replied Cuddie replied Morton Scotland seemed shew soldiers speak stranger suld sword thae thee thing thou Tillietudlem tion trust turned voice weel whig wild window woman words ye'll
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Página 24 - Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please : His motions all accompanied with grace ; And paradise was open'd in his face.
Página 89 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 46 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 339 - ... tea, which, though excellent hyson, is necessarily weaker and more insipid in the last cup. N"ow, as I think the one is by no means improved by the luscious lump of half-dissolved sugar usually found at the bottom of it, so I am of opinion that a history, growing already vapid, is but dully crutched up by a detail of circumstances which every reader must have anticipated, even though the author exhaust on them every flowery epithet in the language.
Página 95 - When I think of death, Mr Morton, as a thing worth thinking of, it is in the hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of victory in my ear— that would be worth dying for, and more, it would be worth having lived for...
Página 95 - ... die — it has struck — you are alive and safe, and the lot has fallen on those fellows who were to murder you. — It is not the expiring pang that is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment — it is the memory which the soldier leaves behind him, like the long train of light that follows the sunken sun — that is all which is worth caring for, which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble.