The AntiquaryWaverly Book Company, 1898 - 401 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... soldier - like or military manner and address . His features were intelligent , with a powerful ex- pression of sarcasm , His motions were always so graceful that he might almost have been suspected of having studied them ; for he might ...
... soldier - like or military manner and address . His features were intelligent , with a powerful ex- pression of sarcasm , His motions were always so graceful that he might almost have been suspected of having studied them ; for he might ...
Pagina 34
... soldier , ballad - singer , travelling tinker , and is now a beggar . He is spoiled by our foolish gentry , who laugh at his jokes and rehearse Edie Ochiltree's good things as regularly as Joe Miller's . " 66 Why , he uses freedom ...
... soldier , ballad - singer , travelling tinker , and is now a beggar . He is spoiled by our foolish gentry , who laugh at his jokes and rehearse Edie Ochiltree's good things as regularly as Joe Miller's . " 66 Why , he uses freedom ...
Pagina 164
... soldier , About I know not what ! Nothing , indeed— Competitions , degrees , and comparatives Of soldiership ! A Fair Quarrel . THE attentive audience gave the fair transcriber of the fore- going legend the thanks which politeness ...
... soldier , About I know not what ! Nothing , indeed— Competitions , degrees , and comparatives Of soldiership ! A Fair Quarrel . THE attentive audience gave the fair transcriber of the fore- going legend the thanks which politeness ...
Pagina 165
... soldier fixed his keen eye upon Lovel , and paid his compliment with more reserve than cordiality ; and , as our acquaintance thought his coldness almost supercilious , he was equally frigid and haughty in making the necessary return to ...
... soldier fixed his keen eye upon Lovel , and paid his compliment with more reserve than cordiality ; and , as our acquaintance thought his coldness almost supercilious , he was equally frigid and haughty in making the necessary return to ...
Pagina 171
... soldier . " Come , come , " exclaimed Oldbuck , " what is the mean- ing of all this ? Have we got Hiren here ? We'll have no swag- gering , youngsters . Are you come from the wars abroad to stir up domestic strife in our peaceful land ...
... soldier . " Come , come , " exclaimed Oldbuck , " what is the mean- ing of all this ? Have we got Hiren here ? We'll have no swag- gering , youngsters . Are you come from the wars abroad to stir up domestic strife in our peaceful land ...
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Pagina 170 - 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.
Pagina 282 - 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.
Pagina 144 - 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.
Pagina 48 - He then mounted his horse, and, turning to Morton, repeated the text of Scripture, 'An heavy yoke was ordained for the sons of Adam from the day they go out of their mother's womb till the day that they return to the mother of all things...
Pagina 299 - 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.
Pagina 145 - 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...
Pagina 83 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Pagina 171 - 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.
Pagina 152 - As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Pagina 260 - To see the bier that bears their ancient friend ; For he was one in all their idle sport, And like a monarch ruled their little court ; The pliant bow he...