Tales of My Landlord,: Old mortalityWilliam Blackwood, Prince's Street: and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London., 1817 - 347 páginas |
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... voice of the preacher emitted , in unison with that of the old woman , tones like the grumble of a bassoon combined with the screaking of a cracked fiddle . At first , the aged pair of sufferers had been contented to condole with each ...
... voice of the preacher emitted , in unison with that of the old woman , tones like the grumble of a bassoon combined with the screaking of a cracked fiddle . At first , the aged pair of sufferers had been contented to condole with each ...
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... from a violent fit of coughing , and found his own anathema borne down by Mause's better wind , peace , and take not the word out of the mouth of a servant of the altar . - I say , I uplift my voice OLD MORTALITY . 23.
... from a violent fit of coughing , and found his own anathema borne down by Mause's better wind , peace , and take not the word out of the mouth of a servant of the altar . - I say , I uplift my voice OLD MORTALITY . 23.
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Walter Scott. altar . - I say , I uplift my voice and tell ye , that before the play is played out - ay , be fore this very sun gaes down , ye sall learn that neither a desperate Judas , like your prelate Sharpe that's gone to ... voice ...
Walter Scott. altar . - I say , I uplift my voice and tell ye , that before the play is played out - ay , be fore this very sun gaes down , ye sall learn that neither a desperate Judas , like your prelate Sharpe that's gone to ... voice ...
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... voice with , " Also I uplift my song like that of a pelican in the wilderness " . " And I mine , " had issued from Mause , " like a sparrow on the house - tops ” — When , " Hollo , ho ! " cried the corporal from the rear ; " rein up ...
... voice with , " Also I uplift my song like that of a pelican in the wilderness " . " And I mine , " had issued from Mause , " like a sparrow on the house - tops ” — When , " Hollo , ho ! " cried the corporal from the rear ; " rein up ...
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... voices , and sent forth , in solemn modulation , the two first verses of the seventy - sixth Psalm , according to the metrical version of the Scottish Kirk : " In Judah's land God is well known , His name's in Israel great , In Salem is ...
... voices , and sent forth , in solemn modulation , the two first verses of the seventy - sixth Psalm , according to the metrical version of the Scottish Kirk : " In Judah's land God is well known , His name's in Israel great , In Salem is ...
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Página 89 - 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 39 - Zioa is his seat. There arrows of the bow he brake, The shield, the sword, the war, More glorious thou than hills of prey, More excellent art far.
Página 89 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Página 32 - SAVE me, O God ; for the waters are come in unto my soul. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Página 62 - Burley," said Bothwell, griping his sword firmly, and setting his teeth close; "you escaped me once, but (he swore an oath too tremendous to be written down) thy head is worth its weight of silver, and it shall go home at my saddle-bow, or my saddle shall go home empty for me.
Página 32 - I am sunk in deep mire where there is no standing — I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me...