The Waverley Novels, Volumen21

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Oxford University Press, 1912

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Página 295 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 25 - Air-castle — and they have a' their different turns, and some can clink verses, wi' their tale, as weel as Rob Burns or Allan Ramsay — and some rin up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stanes to pieces wi...
Página 286 - The topsail-yards point to the wind, boys, See all clear to reef each course ; Let the foresheet go, don't mind, boys, Though the weather should be worse. Fore and aft the...
Página 291 - ... fires enlighten all the cave: Hell from below, and Juno from above, And howling nymphs were conscious to their love.
Página 345 - Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefined.
Página 345 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void : And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed.

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