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... side of the Eildon Hills , the scene of Thomas the Rhymer's prophecies , and often mentioned in his story , having a brace of horses along with him which he had not been able to dispose of , he met a man of venerable appearance , and ...
... side of the Eildon Hills , the scene of Thomas the Rhymer's prophecies , and often mentioned in his story , having a brace of horses along with him which he had not been able to dispose of , he met a man of venerable appearance , and ...
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... side of the thicket , in which , by the report of Draw- slot , he had harboured all night . The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover , waited until the keeper entered , leading his ban - dog , a large blood - hound ...
... side of the thicket , in which , by the report of Draw- slot , he had harboured all night . The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover , waited until the keeper entered , leading his ban - dog , a large blood - hound ...
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... side according to the residence of their friends . So far as I recollect , however , it was un- mingled either with feelings of democracy or aristo- cracy , or indeed with malice or ill - will of any kind towards the opposite party . In ...
... side according to the residence of their friends . So far as I recollect , however , it was un- mingled either with feelings of democracy or aristo- cracy , or indeed with malice or ill - will of any kind towards the opposite party . In ...
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... side but one , it were worse shame to be idle than to be on the worst side , though blacker than usurpation could make it . As for Aunt Rachel , her scheme had not exactly terminated according to her wishes , but she was under the ...
... side but one , it were worse shame to be idle than to be on the worst side , though blacker than usurpation could make it . As for Aunt Rachel , her scheme had not exactly terminated according to her wishes , but she was under the ...
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... side of the door , while on the other the family dung- hill ascended in noble emulation . gate . This nether portal , like the former , opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculp ture , with battlements on the top , over ...
... side of the door , while on the other the family dung- hill ascended in noble emulation . gate . This nether portal , like the former , opened in front of a wall ornamented with some rude sculp ture , with battlements on the top , over ...
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Página 395 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 224 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Página 205 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like...
Página 16 - gainst the oak his antlers frayed; You shall see him brought to bay; 'Waken, lords and ladies gay ! ' Louder, louder, chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies gay ! Tell them, youth, and mirth, and glee, Run a course as well as we; Time, stern huntsman ! who can baulk, Staunch as hound, and fleet as hawk? Think of this, and rise with day, Gentle lords and ladies gay!
Página 365 - The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk below the horizon, and an early and lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene twilight of a summer evening. The wind began next to arise, but its wild and moaning sound was heard for some time, and its effects became visible on the bosom of the sea, before the gale was felt on shore. The mass of waters, now dark and threatening, began to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink in deeper furrows, forming waves that rose...
Página 175 - There is no European nation which, within the course of half a century or little more, has undergone so complete a change as this kingdom of Scotland. The effects of the insurrection of 1745, — the destruction of the patriarchal power of the Highland chiefs, the abolition of the heritable jurisdictions of the Lowland nobility and barons, the total eradication of the Jacobite party, which, averse to intermingle with the English or adopt their customs, long...
Página 278 - A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason ; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Página 181 - Whitney, who was shot through the arm here, and a few months after fell nobly in the battle of Falkirk, and by Lieutenant West, a man of distinguished bravery, as also by about fifteen dragoons, who stood by him to the last. But after a faint fire, the regiment in general was seized with a panic : and though their Colonel and some other gallant officers did what they could to rally them once or twice, they at last took a precipitate flight. And just in the moment when Colonel Gardiner seemed to be...