Tales of My Landlord: 1st ser, Volúmenes1-2Samuel H. Parker, 1834 |
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... passing of the Scottish act of security bad given the alarm to England , as it seemed to point at a separation of the two British kingdoms , after the decease of Queen Anne , the reigning sovereign . Godolphin , then at the head of the ...
... passing of the Scottish act of security bad given the alarm to England , as it seemed to point at a separation of the two British kingdoms , after the decease of Queen Anne , the reigning sovereign . Godolphin , then at the head of the ...
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... passed away ; and tradition , which is as frequently an inventor of fiction as a preserver of truth , had supplied its place with a 2 * VOL . I. The supplementary legend of her own , which now came full THE BLACK DWARF . 17.
... passed away ; and tradition , which is as frequently an inventor of fiction as a preserver of truth , had supplied its place with a 2 * VOL . I. The supplementary legend of her own , which now came full THE BLACK DWARF . 17.
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... passed along the moor . He also remembered , that , since the catastrophe had taken place , the scene of it had been avoided , at least after night - fall , by all human be- ings , as being the ordinary resort of kelpies , spunkies ...
... passed along the moor . He also remembered , that , since the catastrophe had taken place , the scene of it had been avoided , at least after night - fall , by all human be- ings , as being the ordinary resort of kelpies , spunkies ...
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... passed ane another at the Carlisle races ! Wha kens but things may come round in this world ? " Earnscliff muttered something like an answer ; but whether in assent of the proposition , or rebuking the ap- plication of it , could not ...
... passed ane another at the Carlisle races ! Wha kens but things may come round in this world ? " Earnscliff muttered something like an answer ; but whether in assent of the proposition , or rebuking the ap- plication of it , could not ...
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... passed the awful spot . The boldest only stopped to gratify their curiosity by a hasty glance at the walls of his cottage and garden , and to apol- ogize for it by a courteous salutation , which the inmate sometimes deigned to return by ...
... passed the awful spot . The boldest only stopped to gratify their curiosity by a hasty glance at the walls of his cottage and garden , and to apol- ogize for it by a courteous salutation , which the inmate sometimes deigned to return by ...
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Términos y frases comunes
answered arms auld Balfour blood body Bothwell Burley called canna Castle cause Claverhouse Colonel Grahame command Cornet Covenant Covenanters Cuddie dinna door dragoons Duke of Monmouth Dwarf e'en Earnscliff Edith Ellieslaw Elliot Elshie enemy Erastian Evandale's exclaimed eyes father favour fear followed frae gentleman gude Gudyill Halliday hand head hear heard heart Henry Morton hinny Hobbie honour horse Ilderton insurgents Isabella JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM Jenny Kettledrummle Lady Margaret leddy look Lord Evandale Macbriar mair Major Bellenden Mareschal maun Mause Milnwood misanthropy Miss Bellenden Miss Vere morning mother muckle never Old Mortality ower party person popinjay Poundtext presbyterian prisoner puir Ratcliffe replied Morton Scotland seemed Sir Frederick soldiers speak sword thae thee there's thou Tillietudlem tion Tower voice weel Westburnflat whig woman word young
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Página 30 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; And they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: And all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour And thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
Página 161 - Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods...
Página 30 - Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
Página 165 - ... to soften obstinacy; and whose very powers of intellect have been confounded by hearing the same dull lesson repeated a hundred times by rote, and only varied by the various blunders of the reciters. Even the flowers of classic genius, with which his solitary fancy is most gratified...
Página 165 - Preliminary. \Vhy seeks he with unwearied toil Through death's dim walks to urge his way, Reclaim his long-asserted spoil, And lead oblivion into day ? Langhorne.
Página 28 - ... liberated captives quickly flew abroad with many exaggerations among the victorious army. The reports on the subject were various ; but it was universally agreed, that young Morton of Milnwood, the son of the stout soldier of the Covenant, Silas Morton, together with the precious Gabriel Kettledrummle, and a singular devout Christian woman, whom many thought as good as himself at extracting a doctrine or an use, whether of terror or consolation, had arrived to support the good old cause, with...
Página 268 - Zephyrs play in prosperous gales And Fortune's favour fills the swelling sails ; But would forsake the ship, and make the shore, When the winds wHistle, and the tempests roar...
Página 232 - Your leddyship and the steward hae been pleased to propose that my son Cuddie suld work in the barn wi' a new-fangled machine * for dighting the corn frae the chaff, thus impiously thwarting the will of Divine Providence, by raising wind for your leddyship's ain particular use by human art, instead of soliciting it by prayer, or waiting patiently for whatever dispensation of wind Providence was pleased to send upon the sheelingliill.
Página 217 - The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones ; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Página 2 - There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war. More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.